Reminising about graduation

[Ben Madison]

As people are graduating I ponder the memories and stuff about my my experiences with the well known tune

When I was in band class you knew the end of the year was coming around when the band teacher dragged "Pomp and circumstance March No 1" off the shelf. I was the Horn player and I do not know why the arranger had it for the horns, I was stuck with the quarter note 1-2-3-4 pattern i got play other things but mainly i was stuck with the quarter note pattern, I felt bad for the bass line because they had it worse.

The final graduation i had to play at was joyous, Pomp and Circumstance from my point of view was easy and at the same time annoying because the number of times you had to repeat it and being stuck with mainly 1-2-3-4 beat pattern for most of the time was monotonous.

[jbird604]

I hear you! I was a trombone player, and our lines were monotonous too. Whose weren't?

[Organfella]

I hear you! I was a trombone player, and our lines were monotonous too. Whose weren't?

Mine wasn't - I graduated in something other than music...=-O:-> But hair-raising all the same!

[Ben Madison]

I hear you! I was a trombone player, and our lines were monotonous too. Whose weren't?

The whole music was easy, all you had to do was keep watch on the director and go on auto pilot for the whole thing.

[Havoc]

Don't remember much of my graduation. But physics was always a rather dry stuffed setting.

[davidecasteel]

My degrees were both in Engineering, and I was a recipient, not a player. There were several marches played in rotation: Grand March from Aida; Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 (of course); Crown Imperial; Meyerbeer's Coronation March; Procession of the Sardar. I'm sure there were others.

David

[Ben Madison]

My degrees were both in Engineering, and I was a recipient, not a player. There were several marches played in rotation: Grand March from Aida; Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 (of course); Crown Imperial; Meyerbeer's Coronation March; Procession of the Sardar. I'm sure there were others.

David

Music for the Royal Fireworks was the the standard fare for leaving the area, Although the last two years that I was High school, the director ditched it. The center that we went to for graduation required a team of people to haul timpani drums from the top to the floor via STEEP steps then it is tradition now for the first band to leave their drums for the others and then they picked them up.

[voet]

The year after I graduated from High School, I was asked to be the organist for the next graduating class. I do not remember much about it except that it took a long time for all of the graduates to process into the civic center. I don't remember all of the music I played, but I do remember that one of the pieces I played for the procession was C. S. Lang's Tuba Tune in D Major.

[davidecasteel]

The year after I graduated from High School, I was asked to be the organist for the next graduating class. I do not remember much about it except that it took a long time for all of the graduates to process into the civic center. I don't remember all of the music I played, but I do remember that one of the pieces I played for the procession was C. S. Lang's Tuba Tune in D Major.

Our church Organist often uses the Tuba Tune as her Postlude. She pulls out the Fanfare Trumpet in the gallery and the gorgeous Hooded Tuba in the main instrument to very good effect--I love it!

David