FJHmusic.com > Instrumental Music > Feedback Forum        Want to share your comments about a piece you've read or performed? Would you like to give us comments about this website? This is a place to discuss the FJH instrumental catalog with other directors and students. We'd love to hear about your experiences with instrumental music from FJH!    Click here to post your comments Comments: << | Previous Page | Next Page | >> Comments on: Appalachian Hymn My orchestra teacher does sight reading every Friday and she came across this piece. She passed out the music and began teaching the work. We are still learning the it, but hope to play it at a concert in the near future. I log onto my computer and the first thing i do is come to this site, go to the Appalachian Hymn section, click on the button to preview it, and listen to it while doing my homework. It is a great piece for beginning orchestras. I highly recommend it. Cecily Student SC Comments on: When Spirits Soar I play clarinet in our middle school honors band, and we played this piece for our first concert. I have to say, This is a true masterpiece! I loved it so much and it is still playing in my mind every day! The reason why i remember it so much is because it is so emotional! (And it is downright catchy!) Well, keep up the good work. Matthew Student TX Comments on: Invictus My symphonic Band played this last year when I was in high school and I was playing solo flute. This piece is so emotional and a complete journey to learn and perform. I would recommend it to any symphonic band that has the heart and talent to play this amazing piece! Brittany College Student Comments on: Moscow, 1941 I went to band camp for the first time this year and I couldn't have asked it to be any better. One of the pieces we played was Moscow, 1941. And out of all the music that I have played in 5th and 6th grade this was definitely my favorite piece. So thank you. Ciara Student CA Comments on: Blue-Fire Fiddler My students absolutely loved this piece by Newbold. It was fun and challenging at the same time. My lower strings were amazed that they had to learn a little bit of fiddling style music. We played this at a festival and the judges gave wonderful comments about the selection choice and that the students were having so much fun performing this piece of music. I would highly recommend Blue-Fire Fiddler to any String Orchestra group. Anita Hynus Middle School Director NC Comments on: The Brat I am also president of Colorado IAJE and I did pick this for our summer band masters convention reading band (of new pieces to be previewed). Great piece, but a piece of this level without a cookin and background filled solo section - shame! Joe Anderies College Director CO Comments on: A Pirate's Legend This piece is the most imaginative I have ever played. It really felt like we were in the days of the pirates! it has great realistic sounds; the seagull part, in particular. It is amazing! Davina Student FL Comments on: In Heaven's Air Samuel Hazo is by far my favorite composer, but this piece out of all his pieces is by all means my favorite. The tension and release this piece contains is amazing especially if the piece is played at the written tempo. Hazo did an amazing job on this piece and I look forward to performing it. Andy Student CO Comments on: Canadian Legend & Arabian Dreams I did both of these pieces a year ago – the students loved them, the audiences responded very well to them, and we took a gold medal at a festival performing them. I highly recommend both works! Frederik Schuetze High School Director MA Comments on: Night Flight of the Gargoyles Wow. That is one of the only words that came to mind when I heard this piece for the first time. It was brilliant, entertaining, and kept you on the edge of your seat. So you can understand my excitement when our director at Dixie Band Camp chose this piece for us to play at our final concert. It seemed to all fall into place on the first day of rehearsals–not because it was easy but because we were all so thrilled to play music like that. music that was fun and caught the audience by surprise. So, if I were to recommend a piece to any band director, it would be this one. Krista Student AR Comments on: The Great American Frontier This is a wonderful piece for Symphonic Band or a good Concert Band. Written in the style of the 1960's Western Movies it starts off with percussion and then goes into a wonderful introduction of the melody played by the woodwind section. There is a beautiful lyrical section in the middle followed by a repeat of the intro melody in contrapuntal form played by the woodwinds and the low reeds. There are extensive percussion parts and plenty of cross cueing. We performed this piece at Walt Disney World and the students enjoyed performing it as did the parents enjoyed hearing it. Brian Chance Middle School Director FL Comments on: In Heaven's Air Personally, I've played this piece numerous times. After reading Shakespeare's Sonnet #21, It's just making more and more sense to me. I get this feeling right before and after the tension cord. I believe everyone can understand that feeling, the undeniable feeling of listening to a piece of music and loving it from the depths of your soul. Talisa Student DE Comments on: Blue-Fire Fiddler Can I say anything more than "WOW"? This piece was so much fun to play I continually look back on it just for pure enjoyment. I love the emotion that rides the piece on. It's simply amazing! I am in awe of how I, the violinist who is practically afraid of fiddling songs, can actually sound okay at a piece so fiddle-oriented. The piece is strikingly easier to play than it sounds. I recommend this piece for 4th to 5th year violinists, cellists, bass players, and 3rd to 4th year violists. Kelsey Student OH Comments on: Among The Clouds I've played this on my spring concert, one of the most amazing pieces I've ever heard. All the instruments blend in to make you move in an uplifting sort of way. Edward Student NY Comments on: Urban Dances I am a senior at Gallup High School and out of all the pieces I have played in my years this has to be the greatest one. It is a challenging piece and also fun to play, the way all instruments blend with each other. The best part is the end, it will keep the audience amazed. Paul Student NM Comments on: Revolution Revolution is an excellent piece of art. I was blown away with its beautiful flute and french horn parts. I really enjoyed listening to it, I recommend it to everyone, it's like one of those pieces that you can never get enough of thanks to its diversity of parts and harmony. Matt Student Comments on: Chesapeake Serenade This piece is absolutely amazing, especially for beginner bands. it is not only beautiful but helps them work on achieving the best tone they possibly can. This was one of the first pieces I played in a concert band. I was in grade 6, and found that it was not only easy, but I was able to sound good and was confident in the piece. Brian Balmages' music is some of the most beautiful, and touching music I have ever played. I highly recommend it. Thank You! Brittany Student WA Comments on: A Pirate's Legend My Orchestra played this piece for the end of the year. It was a big hit! Our class learned col legno, and cellos learned how to make seagull sounds. This song was a challenge for us to learn, but in the end, this was the hardest and most fun work to play the whole year. Thank you Ms. Newbold! Edward Student TX Comments on: Phantom Ship This is definitely a piece I would recommend for a concert band to play. We played it a few years ago for a concert. The emotion and grand sense of the piece is very well coordinated. AJ Student OH Comments on: When Spirits Soar My band teacher gave us this piece and I looked at the title and I thought about it while I was playing it. The beginning reminds me of the vigor and delight some people hold within themselves. I really like the trombone chords that it has in measure 69 through 131. I also like the part where the whole band plays in measure 95, when it creates just a whole type of sadness or deep emotion. The trombones cool them off and enter the part where the band members sing. I really like the piano and bell part while we sing, it just goes great with that part. Our band teacher really gets into it too, which I think is great. It's just a wonderful piece of music. Thanks. Dani Student WI Comments on: Gettysburg (A Civil War Portrait) I really liked Gettysburg. Mr.J is having us play it in our concert next year. My favorite part is when you have the bass drum beat like cannons and the players whistle like bullets. I also like the trumpet part because it is the instrument I play and the part is kind of easy but it is also kind of hard. It is the best music I ever played. Lauran Student Comments: << | Previous Page | Next Page | >> Click here to post your comments  About Us :: Composers & Writers :: Contact Us :: Conventions & Workshops Piano Music :: Guitar Music :: Concert Band Music Jazz Ensemble Music :: String Orchestra Music :: Solo & Ensemble Music Canzonique Music :: Percussion Music :: :: Home Copyright © The FJH Music Company Inc.