Klarinet Archive - Posting 000608.txt from 1997/10

From: "George E. Landis" <gelandis@-----.net>
Subj: Re: Ann Arbor High School Bands :-)
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 22:52:06 -0400

Roger Garrett wrote:
>
> I have some amazing recordings you simply would not believe! However, the
> recordings of Bill Revelli's Hobart High School band are simply
> unimaginable.....one could never think that junior high and high school
> kids could play like that!!!
>
> Roger Garrett
>

I would refer you to the Mark Records, Inc. reissues of the Lake
Highlands High School Band/Eddie Green recordings from 1971 through
1975. They include a variety of Hindsley arrangements (Til Eulenspiegel,
Mvmt. IV of Scheherezade), a never published arrangement of Bartok's
"Concerto for Orchestra" done just for this ensemble, the long lost
James Rives-Jones arrangement of "The Rite of Spring" as well as several
pieces that are no longer published, because few bands are capable of
playing them anymore.

This ensemble makes Mr. Revelli's U of Mich. band sound like amateurs.

Regards