I just have to ask if anyone here knows of Eric Whitacre? I absolutly LOVE his stuff. Espically his work for Wind Ensemble called October. I first heard this song when i was seeing a college band preform at one of our local colleges and was capitavated from teh very beginning with the amazing Oboe solo that starts it off. It just has SO much emotion and i just love it. visit his website and listen to a clip of it

http://www.EricWhitacre.com

and go to the Mp3 on the side and click October ( or anything else) and tell me what you think.

I have the whole song if anyone wants it.

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I hope you all love it as much as I do... its seriously amazing. Ive been asking my band teacher if theres any possible way we can do it... lets hope.

Forgot to add... i love all the parts the Flutes have in it and the sound of the piccolo over the whole band at the parts when the music swells... its again, amazing.

YES! i love eric whitacre too! i listen to october so much i know it by heart....i have the sheet music to it also because my friend has played it before. it one of the most emotional songs ive heard. whitacre wrote it when he was in his 20`s ive heard. its so amazing.

I love October... We played it in Wind Ensemble last year and I totally fell in love with it!

I played October by Eric Whitacre in All-State Band 2004. It was nice, but I thought Sleep sounded a lot better (I played Sleep w/my high school band last yr)

yes!!! i played october last year in band...we had a small enslemble play it and it sounded so cool. i played the 1st clarinet part on it, and the whole notes at the beginning were impossibl to hold, but it was a great song!

You said you had teh sheet music for it? Is there any possible way you can get that to me? I would really appreciate it. I have been wanting to get teh sheet music for soooo long but you have to buy the whole score. Ive been trying to convience my band teacher to get us to play it.... well see.

Im glad to see you all like him so much!

And i dont think he wrote it in his 20s. I think he wrote it only a few years ago.. I could be wrong.

i am almost 100% sure he wrote it in 2000

I played October by Eric Whitacre in the spring 2004 symphonic band at Pineville High School in Pineville, Louisiana. I loved the song so much. The judges at state festival were just like, oh my. It is just so pretty. This year we have decided to play Sleep and we are going to have the choir singing with us in the background at our spring gala. Of course we offset October at festival last year with Providence UNfinished by Holsinger. WE have this trend of doing a Whitacre and a Holsinger back to back. This year our Holsinger is CityScapes. This song is awesome. Last year for our march we played Circus Bee by Henry Filmore, again another great song. Very challenging with all of the 32 note runs into the upper octaves on trumpets. But you can never lose the judges if you do a Whitacre piece.

we did october in our high school band last year for one of our festival pieces.. it`s a beatiful song!! i have the flute part but unfortunatly i have no way to get it on to this computer at the time..
it`s a fairly easy song to play rythmically but playing with emotion and putting it together with the band is the challenge. it`s amazing and i think it really does make you become a better musician.

Hi, I`m also looking for the score. I`m on break from college and left my score in my dorm room. Please email me (akrerowi@butler.edu) or IM me (Composer111285) if anyone out there could send me a copy. Thanks so much- Aaron

Hi! We are playing October and I was wondering if anyone had a recording of the whole piece.

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Yes, I found an awesome recording of October here:

http://www.forscom.army.mil/band/

You`ll want to scroll down the left to "music downloads", and then click "Invictus". October should be the 2rd or 4th song. Click for teh download.

thanks for the websites he had a link to his electronic opera thing paradise lost and it looks kindof neat but the music sounds AWESOME! Anyone know how to get a soundtrack of it i couldn`t find one online?

OH MY GOD! The down load section of the site http://www.forscom.army.mil/band/

The conductor otis french is my community band university director!! We played invictus just this december that`s so awesome. He`s a wonderful conductor and nice guy. He really pushes us oh my goodness our spring concert has all these darn high notes it`s crazy!