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: Through Courageous Eyes At this level, it is a rare piece that has a great deal of educational value AND student appeal. Our students thoroughly enjoy playing this piece – for them, it not only has exciting parts, but they can relate to the story behind the music, and it has a great deal of meaning for all of us. Matt Conaway Middle School Director IN Comments on: Invictus I had the pleasure of playing this piece while attending Morehead State University. Mr. Balmages was actually there to conduct it. It was an honor and an inspiring experience for me. This song will invoke tears, if you're playing it, and grip your soul when you listen to it. Lori College Student KY Comments on: In Heaven's Air In Heaven's Air is a wonderful and moving composition, not rhythmically difficult, but very lushly scored, and harmonically intriguing. Lots of teaching and music making possibilities for school ensembles and community bands. Norm Dea High School Director CA Comments on: Rockin' Jammin' Swingin' Your songs are wonderful works of art. The dynamics create a nice mood to the pieces. For orchestra camp we are playing Blue-Fire Fiddler, it is challenging and sound wonderful. Everyday I listen to Odyssey and it is very neat. All my friends are dying to hear our orchestra play it this year. I hope you keep creating wonderful works of art. James Student TX Comments on: Dies Irae This piece was one phenomenal and beautiful work! I was part of the band that first played this – the Romulus High School Band. It was tons of fun! It's a pretty tricky work to master, especially for the woodwinds at the end due to a lot of tricky quick runs, but once it's under their fingers, it flies like the wind! It was lots of fun, and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in a fun challenge! Elizabeth Student NY Comments on: Blaze of Glory A great song that motivates me throughout the whole piece. Great trumpet parts. Robert Sheldon did a great job of this piece. Richard Student State Comments on: Walden This is really a beautifully written piece! I look forward to hopefully playing it with my students once I begin teaching music myself. This is sure to be a crowd pleaser and its very flowing – a lot of musical "stuff" as my kids would say, is going on and it is just absolutely beautiful! Nikkie College Student MA Comments on: Sea Trilogy Sea Trilogy is a great piece! My school worked with Mr. Del Borgo earlier in the year when we commissioned a piece. We played it in an honors band concert, and the crowd absolutely loved it! The same is true for all the kids in the band – it's very catchy and we've all managed to keep it stuck in our heads! I strongly recommend this piece to any band that's looking for a great, fun piece to play! Elizabeth Student NY Comments on: Through Courageous Eyes This is the piece that I am using to conduct my first concert with a college wind ensemble. I think it is a great piece for a beginning conductor to start with because of the various time signatures and nice chordal structure. I also enjoy this piece because of the setting the composer gave. It gives a good sense of who this child was and how he lived out his life. Paul College Student NY Comments on: Celtic Roots I played this last year with my orchestra, and I not only had a good time preparing it, but the concert was really fun too. I love this and recommend it to any orchestra looking for a well-rounded fully developed piece. John Student NY Comments on: In Heaven's Air I just wanted to say how much I love this piece of music. Mr. Hazo's music has just been introduced to me as a student at Brentwood High School in TN. I Hope to perform this piece and want Mr. Hazo to keep inspiring people like me everyday. Austin Student TN Comments on: Each Time You Tell Their Story I'm a percussionist at Carbondale Community High School in Southern Illinois. Our concert band just did this piece for a concert and the whole crowd loved it. This is definitely a good slow piece for a concert. Kris Student IL Comments on: Gale Force A wonderful and Dramatic Piece. I really enjoyed the sound affects. This song also has a variety of entrances which I enjoy a lot. I am a low woodwind and I just loved the low part. James Student MI Comments on: The Darkness is Always Soft This piece is great! We are learning it for our Festival Concert this upcoming March in my Symphonic Band class. It's a dissonant powerful piece, and it's very fun to play. Highly recommended for any middle-level band. Maxwell Student GA Comments on: Blaze of Glory Robert Sheldon's pieces have always inspired me. Blaze Of Glory is a great piece with a lot of great trumpet parts. Melissa Student TX Comments on: Adventure Overture Great piece of music...my band loved it for their winter concert. John Nagle Middle School Band Director MD Comments on: Intermezzo from Bizet's Carmen Very well arranged with the full charm of the original (full orchestra version). Our students like to perform this piece very much. My best congratulations from the Youth Concert Band in Poland. Jaroslaw Wnorowski Director, Youth Concert Band of Poland Poland Comments on: The FJH String Orchestra Catalog Just a quick note to thank you for promoting and selling such high quality string orchestra music! I have been a string teacher for over 20 years and there was a period of time when most publishers were releasing very poor quality music that bored the students to death. I'm glad to see that publishers who are new to string orchestra literature are not insulting the intelligence of public school students. This is my second year of ordering music from FJH and I am impressed. The quality of composition is excellent! The students, the audiences and I enjoy your music. I trust that FJH plans to continue writing for string orchestras. Thank you for making my teaching even more enjoyable. N. Artley Middle and High School String Orchestra Director NC Comments on: Can't Go Wrong Great chart! The rhythm section parts were easy for my kids to read. And the horns didn't fall asleep during the solos because of the interesting pyramid background parts. A must buy! Chris Leno Middle School Band Director FL Comments on: Socrates, the Amazing Mississippi Map Turtle I'm the bass trombonist for our jazz band, and I loved playing this piece, mainly for it's great soli section which includes the bass trombone and bari sax. I can't think of any charts off the top of my head that are more fun to play! Ty Student KS Comments on: Sound Prisms One of the most intense and thought-provoking pieces I have come across in my five years of teaching Todd L. Riddleberger High School Band Director MD Comments on: When Summer's in the Meadow I am a high school orchestra director in Texas, and I used this piece with my top orchestra for our UIL contest. It brought us much success. The judges loved the piece, and commented many times on its beauty. It's a very emotional and musical piece that has something fun for each part. The piece is reminiscent of A Summer Place, and other pieces of that era. A truly wonderful work that is also a great teaching piece - for both students and teacher! Julie Blackstock High School Orchestra Director TX Comments on: Celtic Roots We are playing this piece in our school orchestra, and to be honest it is one of the best pieces I have ever heard. I love the jig and the reel, and at the end when the chant joins the reel it is amazing. Hari Student VA Comments on: Reflexão e dança I am writing to express my admiration and appreciation for Dr. Lissa Fleming May's recent composition entitled Reflexão e dança. I saw the chart at a band reading session last August and thought it looked like a marvelous teaching tool. I just recently pulled it out and used it with my class. As I anticipated, the students enjoyed playing through the piece from the very first time we looked at it. The opportunity to teach and have the students utilize improvisation and arranging techniques in a concert band setting was extremely rewarding. Bob Denney Music Director John McCrae Secondary School Director Ontario Music Educators' Association Comments on: Celtic Roots  I would like to say that I personally love this piece, if it wasn't for my music teacher Ms. Patterson I would have never gotten the chance to hear this beautiful song. Now that my ears have gotten a chance to dwell on this lovely song it has opened my eyes to a lot of different kinds of melodies of music and they all don't have to be boring old kid stuff. I would just like to give my thanks to Soon Hee Newbold for composing such a moving piece. Deric Student NV Comments on: Phantom Ship I love Phantom Ship. It is very dramatic, and captures the moment of a phantom ship! 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