001[music] [applause] [music] เ [music] ا [music] [applause] going to feature two the first one is one which a lot of people recognize at Danny boy and the second one you hear is star of the county down [music] [applause] [music] [ music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] ا เฮ [music] [applause] Spanish march [music] [applause] [music] اpa [music] ا [music] [applause] [music] ا [music] S [music] [applause] It's time for our world premes uh Michel words for you. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for attending our concert. I'm Michael Ben, an ordinary sixth grade band member just like the rest of my bandmates here. I play the trombo and wrote a piece for the band. It's called as the curtain closes. I've always wanted to write a piece for the band since we got our first
002concert music handed out. I could never make anything that I was satisfied with that is until I created as closes. I chose a name after I finished the rough piece and I named it as the curtain closes because it sounds like an epic finale piece to leave mark on the audience even after curtain closes. It could have been possible without my amazing parents and grandparents by my side throughout the whole process, especially my father's father, my grandp. He used to play percussion in a marching band until it got too much for him to hold the symbols. No, he doesn't play an instrument anymore. He's been a huge inspiration to me. Ever since I played my very first note on the trombone, my family, even my dog prckles has been there to support me and parents
003in the audience. I ask you as a member of the band that you support your young musicians every step of the way. You've seen what amazing things me and my bandmates can do and will do with your support. Into my bandmates before I start conducting, remember to watch me for the down beat. And before we start, I wanted to thank Mr. Coning for helping me with the peace in the band from performing it. And I think I have enough tonight. Without further ad, here we [music] 빠па เฮ [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] Yes. [applause] Yes. Thank you much quick here and the traders are going to go sit down where the traders are the traders are going to come up these stairs and go through this door right here. Thank you guys. No.
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005perform "River of Fire," which is a mich arrangement of familiar music. This piece also features many different tempos and settings. We conclude our portion of the concert with a flashy and laddish composition by J. That the trumpet section, please note that the trumpet section will not be performing dances tonight. This was a piece from the last concert that was inadvertent. [music] ed has been thank you all so much here. We hope you enjoy our [applause] [ music] [music] [applause ... [applause] [music] [applause] [ applause] [music] [applause] A [music] [applause] [music] Oh, [music] [applause] [music] เฮ [applause] [music] [applause] [ music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] [ applause] [ music] [applause] [ music] [music] [applause] [ music] الله [ music] [applause] [music] [ applause] [music] เ [music] [ applause] [music] Kru [ music] [music] [applause]
006[music] เ [music] [applause] A [music] เฮ [music] [applause] [music] เฮ เฮ [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] [applause] Ladies and gentlemen, another round of applause for [applause] And now we have a special treat for you. Uh uh composed for us almost two years in the making uh peace composed for us by local uh composer, musician, fellow band teacher, fellow band parent. Uh and we're going to bring up the sth grade band to perform it for you combined with the eth grade band. But maybe that composer is here tonight and can maybe come up and say a few words about this [applause] for that way. Go that way. Go that way. Go that way. [music] Hi everyone. Uh my name is Bret the composer of this next piece, Ashl Woods. Uh Mr. Con
007asked me to tell you a little bit. That's my daughter. She's going to be so mad at me. Um, Mr. G ask me to tell you a little bit about this piece you're about to hear. Uh, but before I do that, is Michael Bogen still in the audience? We need to clap for him again. Well done, man. The heck of the world. [applause] [music] Congratulations. Uh I also want to before again before I talk about my own music I want to thank all of you for being here. I grew up in a really small town in Northern California. Uh in that I'm pretty sure the principal of my middle school and the principal of my high school didn't even know where the bandom was. actually showed up to a concert. Uh that was the so
008first of all thank you for being here. But of course as I mean I know I'm kind of preaching to the cho already know this. The Boston Symphony orchestra does not happen. Boston lyric opera does not happen. The metropolitan opera does not happen unless this happened first. Right? So, uh, I hope you all make it a point to come to every one of these concerts as I do with my family because if we don't support music education, who's going to? It is [applause] important. Ok so now the thing that he actually asked me to talk to you about uh Ash Woods um uh you I I assume many of you have been to the various town wood surrounding as right waren woodsom state the actual town forest uh this pie is about those places these
009are places that I like to take walks with my family is allting the back over there. Hi. Uh and we like to take our lovable jerk of a bulldog named Louis on long walks through the forest. And so when thinking about what this piece was going to be, I figured, well, let's let's take a walk through the forest. Uh so the piece op with one very loud note and that is the car door opening. After that you hear this flurry of eight notes that kind of trip over themselves. That's Louis trying to drag us off into the forest. Um pretty quickly you start to find in the forest various landmarks that have become famous here in Ashland like the old bell that is abandoned in the forest. some place out that we have no idea
010how it got there but it is there. Uh there's lemon squeeze rock which is a very large rock with a huge crack down the middle that is just large enough for a rather small but deep person to work their way through that crack. I do n't the witches caves on the other side of town. If you know the story behind the road Salem and Road you know all about the witches caves um and uh all of these landmarks are actually in this piece. You might ask how are they in this piece? For starters one of the melodies you will hear in the beginning in the flutes actually spells out the word b you can do that with music. And I I told this of course to the band and immediately they wanted to know all
011of the hidden codes in the and so they found the word dog they found Louis's name. Uh they found Mr. Coning's name that is in there. Ashl is in there. Clockers is in there. Shows up several times. Chapelle your name is in there. But the one of course I'm most proud of and the one for which I will receive the most brief later is the fact that the final uh melody that you're going to hear in this piece spells out C A E L I my daughter Kay who is now probably hunched behind her stand and just horrified embarrassment behind this as I say this. Uh so that's what the piece is. Not just a piece that you know is named after our town. This is our town. What I've told these kids. They're not
012just playing a piece by a local composer. They're playing the musical embodied or a musical embod of themselves, of our home. Uh and when this piece hopefully is played elsewhere in the world, they will also be playing Ashland Woods. Not Framingham, not Nic, not Boston, Ashland. So that's a little bit about what you're going to hear in this piece. I do hope you enjoy it and I hope to see you in a content in the future. And with that, enjoy Ashl. [applause] Oh. [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] [applause] [music] เ [music] й [music] [applause] Thank you again so [applause]