Friday, April 4, 2008

Need music help

can you name that tune?

ba-dum
ba-dum
ba-dum
ba-dum
ba-dum
ba-dum
ba-dum
ba-dum
ba-dum
BUM BUM BUM BUM

ba-pa-daaaaa diddly da-pa-daaaa

BUM BUM BUM BUM

i don't even know if my college concert band-mates even read my blog. i'm thinking either late freshman or sophomore year. E. is most likely to know it. Maybe A. But they're both flautists and back in the trumpet section, we were bouncing like the lone ranger as we counted the rests. one nice thing about trumpets is that we didn't have to sit in the front row.

something-vetsian dances maybe, though that might be another piece we did another time.

i need to turn on a computer with speakers and search youtube.

and then i start thinking of the one we did freshman year in 5/4 time. (or alternating 2/4, 3/4 time?). And i want my trumpet and a band to play with. and why can't i think of the band director's name? he was my trumpet teacher, too. fleming, that's it. i wonder how he is these days.

why yes, i am having one of those random-firing synapse days, why do you ask?

ETA:
OK. I found it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CT25bivysJI&feature=related
Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor by Borodin. I'm not sure i knew it was a choral piece, though i did figure it was a ballet. oh duh; it's from the opera Prince Igor. i had just never heard it sung, i guess.

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