Third Suite (I. March, II. Waltz, III. Rondo): Timpani

Played this the year Final Fantasy 4 came out on Super Nintendo; the two are linked emotionally into my psyche.

I loved playing Rondo...so energetic!

My high school band sightread this piece a couple years ago. Today the first movement was on replay in my head while at lunch and I said "fine I'll listen to Third Suite 😅 love it though.

This is a monstrous, janky composition and I adore it. Especially the haunted circus disaster of a Rondo.

I was a dual major in the 70s at Tennessee Tech where Robert Jaeger taught composition. We played this piece in Concert Band under the direction of Dr. James Wattenbarger. Dr. Wattenbarger used to tell us that the rapidly descending parts of third section exactly matched Dr. Jaeger's laugh. Jaeger has a wicked sense of humor and much of his music reflects this. He still resides in Cookeville, TN, a town I have come to love and miss with each passing year.

Feelings run across the board in this. Few seem to understand the genius in Jaeger's composition, as it has been a defining contest piece for more than 60 years. It must be played with great delicacy and precise blend. Agree it's beyond 3.5 literature. It's one thing to get through this thing in concert, and quite another to perform it with enough continuous skill to do it justice. Not many bands really can.

Loved this piece. Played it last year in eighth as one of our last pieces for MPA before our final concert :( I miss my band so much but now I must move on to my new one! ~Euphonium gang

I always thought that was hella fun to play in eleventh grade. (1st clarinet).

the euphonium part in rondo still haunts me to this day almost 6 years after graduating high school

Loved playing Waltz and Rondo with Euphonium

I love the slight insanity I feel every time I play rondo

The rondo was so hard to learn but it's so fun lmao

This is the first piece I played 1st clarinet on in high school... not the best introduction to some of the highest notes of my horn

Looking back at this again, I never noticed how the bass cl. and bari sax aren't really used a lot vs. the bassoons to help cover the bass line throughout the entire piece.

Waltz is so pretty and fun to play as a second clarinet