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: March Momentous I just wanted to say that the 6th grade orchestra at Brentfield is doing this piece for our competition at Sandy Lake. We just finished learning this fun and beautiful piece today. My Orchestra class loves the music and how it sounds (I love it too!) We're glad that Elliot Del Borgo wrote this piece! This will hopefully help us win our competition! PS: Thanks for having this website! Megan Student TX Comments on: In Heaven's Air This piece is very amazing. Just recently it was introduced to us in my band class, we played it and I just thought it was beautiful. Then when I read the story behind it, it really touched me. So by that time my band director played the piece for us over the sound system in the band room, and it made me cry knowing what it was about because you could actually hear the expression felt by the person going through the time of pain and the way they overcame it. I give a big round of applause to Samuel Hazo for this piece, it's truly beautiful. Allison Student IN Comments on: Fulvio's at Eight I wanted to thank your company for having the initiative to put a recording of Fulvio's at Eight on your web page. My 7th grade trumpet player has this for an audition piece. Hearing the complete arrangement has made it much easier for both of us (I'm a former French Horn guy!) to get a feel for the piece. We like the flow and the melody. Thanks again! Jeff Band Parent KY Comments on: Rio Bravo Overture Having performed under Dr. Gruner at the University of South Alabama, I am proud to say this selection is fantastic. I thank Dr. Gruner for including the saxophone solos. It is well written and sure to be a crowd pleaser. I will certainly keep it in mind when it comes time to pick festival music! Mat College Student AL Comments on: A View of the World This piece is absolutly amazing! I have naver heard music like it before! This has become my new favorite work, taking the place of Summer Dances and The Darkness is Always Soft. Patrick College Student OH Comments on: Gettysburg Our sixth grade band has just started learning Gettysburg. The use of experimental sounds along with planned dissonance and meter change makes for an artistically profound work. The kids can't seem to get enough of this piece. They're hooked! Timothy Loest Middle School Band Director Composer IL Comments on: The FJH String Orchestra Catalog I have been looking at and listening to concert recordings for middle school orchestras and bands for the past week. As always, I found plenty of choice selections for band and jazz ensembles. It is, however, most distressing how limited our choices are for quality and interesting string music. Then I came upon your catalog... what a find! I have always been a fan of Del Borgo and enjoyed hearing his new publications. I was also very excited to hear the works of Soon Hee Newbold! Our orchestra will be playing her selections and I look forward to seeing more of her work in the future. Other publications were also of impressive quality. Thank you for your attention to strings. Please keep it up! Stephanie C. Long Beach, CA Comments on: The FJH String Orchestra Catalog I wanted to tell you how impressed I am with the music your company has published for string orchestra! I participated in an orchestra music reading session earlier this week and I was very impressed by the FJH music we read (both the musical quality and the printed page). When I returned to my home and studied the catalogue & listened to the CD I was still impressed! The music is interesting and well written and will appeal to all my students (grades 5 - 12). I especially appreciated the quality of your CD which allowed me to hear the entire piece without listening to voice overs. The full length CD is also a valuable teaching tool. I play the tune for the kids and they can actually hear what the finished product should be! Thanks for your hard work! I purchased several tunes to use next year and I'm sure I'll continue to purchase more in the future. Victoria C. Granville, OH Comments on: African Journey So far under the direction of Mr. Jerry Roberts our band at Crosstimbers Intermediate School has excelled far with this one peice of music. Maria Student TX Comments on: Myths and Legends I am the Mother of a Junior High Band Student and I had the pleasure of listening to Myths and Legends played at the Madison County Band Festival 2002 in Illinois, Conducted by Dr. Charles Menghini. I was so impressed and moved by this piece that I had to search the internet for more information about it. I can tell that this song touched the hearts of the students by the perfection of talent by which it was played. So I applaud the composer Rob Grice for the love of music and for grasping the inner souls of student's hearts. I also want to thank all the Student Music Directors and all the students of Elementary and Jr. High/Middle Schools for performing one of the top Concerts I have been too. Job Well Done! Thank You! Sherry IL Comments on: Blue Ridge Impressions WOW! What a piece! I played "Blue Ridge Impressions" at the Mississippi Bandmaster's Association State Clinic this past December, and I was very pleased. This song has such enthusiasm and the story that goes along with it really comes out in the music. I've actually been trying to get my band director to order this piece for our upcoming Spring Concert :-). Well I hope EVERY young band gets the opportunity to play this OUTSTANDING piece!!! Andrew Student MS Comments on: Summer Dances What a song!! I love summer dances. The rhythms are so moving. And it's extremely fun to play. Brad Student NC Comments on: Passacaglia on an Old English Carol I'd like to say what a fine piece of literature this work represents. It puts the old classical form of a passicaglia in a rather new, interesting and above all, a very musical work. Leland Forsblad Composer CA Comments on: Summer Dances I go to Susquehanna Township High School, and we played Summer Dances, and now are playing Winter Dances. These pieces are beautiful and I enjoy playing as well as listening to them. Tony Student Pennsylvania Comments on: Ritual Dances Ritual Dances by Elliot Del Borgo is a great piece! It is so much fun to play. The tempo and the melodies paint such a great image of a ritual dance. Del Borgo is the best composer for concert bands! Hopak, and Prelude and Toccata are other great pieces by Del Borgo. Everyone should play Ritual Dances!!! Jeff Student California Comments on: Bridgeway March I am from Warren County Middle School in Front Royal,Virginia. Mr. Hilliard came to work with us the week of September the 10th. He dedicated his piece Bridgeway March to us and my band teacher teacher Mrs. Pam Dyke. I play the clarinet. We had a great time with him this year. He also came to our school last year. When I listened to this piece for the first time I had to listen to it over and over again. It is a very great piece. So I took the piece Bridgeway March that we got this Tuesday (the 23rd) and showed my whole family. So I hope he will come back to my school again. Thanks Dr. Hilliard! Rachel Student Virginia Comments on: Summer Dances My band is playing Summer Dances and I absolute love playing this piece!!!! Vivian Student Illinois Comments on: Fat City Swing I go to Livonia High School and we played this piece in jazz band the other day...it was soo cool! we all loved it! Ashley Student New York Comments on: Myths and Legends I just recently moved from Enterprise, AL. I also had Mr. Grice as a band director. This is one of the best songs I have ever played. Hope all of you who come to this site listen to this piece and realize the beauty that Rob Grice can write. Nick Student Nevada Comments on: Myths and Legends I play at Dauphin Jr. High School were Mr. Grice is my teacher. I haven't played the song yet, but I've heard it a dozen times and I love it. It's the best song that I've ever heard. And Mr. Grice is the best band director I've ever had! Ryan Student Alabama Comments on: Summer Dances Ok Summer Dances is an amazing piece with amazing chords. I imagine it to be the song of Merlin the ancient wizard of Camelot. To me the song talks about the Excalibur and the story of King Arthur. The rhythm and the flow of the music are so powerful that it just makes one tingle. The way the music changes moods and how the chords blend together, make one imagine that he is living in the times of ancient sorcerers and dragons who overpower the land. I'm not sure what Brian Balmages intent was when writing the piece, but I indeed receive it as the mystical chant of the medieval lord King Arthur. The beginning talks of the happiness in the land and all the happiness that people have each day. Reaching the middle the music slows which makes one imagine that a dark cloud has come over the kingdom of Camelot and when the tempo becomes faster and the french horns come in it's like a light is coming in from up above and soaring past the valleys and reaching Camelot. And the chords (202) by the low brass are like merlin making everything and again we get tempo primo which makes everything as it was before. Jason Student California Comments on: Socrates, The Amazing Mississippi Map Turtle We got this piece early in the year and have really enjoyed working on it. It is very accessible to our students and the enjoyment level of performing it is high. We plan to program it on our spring concerts and expect it to be a real hit with the audiences. Thanks for a great new funk piece. Keep them coming! 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