This absolute bombastic masterpiece being played for hundreds of musicians, they're screaming and applauding the whole piece, only for the world to go into lockdown a month later. It was likely the last live professional performance a lot of them saw before lockdown.
Could you imagine being a band director 3 months into the lockdown knowing that 4 months prior you felt so alive in a concert like that with all your colleagues from across the country that you were actively screaming and dancing for more. Not sure if you or your students would ever get that again
Here's the live recording of the 2nd movement of that performance btw. Apparently there used to be videos up but I've never been able to find them https://youtu.be/MXZ491FYnX4?si=7Zx8U6f2YshKr7k8
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https://youtu.be/MXZ491FYnX4?si=7Zx8U6f2YshKr7k8