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DerekL1963
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Thanks for the report!
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xifeng.hu
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Just curious: Was this a professional wind ensemble? I was half expecting Tokyo Kosei to be the group hired for the recording since they're the ones who do the demo recordings for the actual national band competition (and one of the best wind ensembles in the world) though I would think Kyoto would have a professional wind ensemble too (I know Osaka has one).
The recording band could have been even a high school group for all I knew. Seika Girls High School (they're possibly referenced in the show as Seira) is one of the best band programs in the world (look up their Music of the Spheres by Philip Sparke performance at the national competition which they won) and their recordings are practically indistinguishable from professional group live recordings. Other notable band programs include Tamana Girls High School and Kyoto Tachibana. |
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Salaryman Rintarō
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I actually thought Seika were playing in season 1 but maybe I was wrong.
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ultimatemegax
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The group that performed the music live was the 2016 Freshman Wind Ensemble unit from the Senzoku Gakuen School of Music. As they're still students, I hesitate to call them a "professional" wind ensemble, but it's about as close as you'd get to being near high school level and still be talented to be somewhat near professional level. This school is outside of the Tokyo metropolis in Kawasaki city and had connections with the music producer of the anime, Shigeru Saito. The band that performed all of the performances and inter-spliced bits throughout the show was the 2014 version of the Freshman Wind Ensemble. The one difference was that the Kansai Competition version of both performances had some professional musicians mixed in to improve the quality of that performance in contrast to the Kyoto and National Competitions. As those players have grown in talent since the first season, it's likely that the music producer and conductor felt they wouldn't be a good representative of the sound that the series is aiming for, so they went with incoming and newer students. I didn't recognize many of them and I saw the making-of videos released on the Japanese BD/DVDs (the stills of live-action people playing instruments are from one of them). The author of the novels, Ayano Takeda, actually studied at practices for Kyoto Tachibana HS for material in the novel spinoffs about Rikka High's Marching Band and explicitly thanks them in the novels themselves.
Nope. The only band that's performed in this franchise has been a "Freshman Wind Ensemble" from Senzoku Gakuen. |
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Salaryman Rintarō
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Considering Rikka is based on Tachibana this sound understandable. Here is very good video on Tachibana stage show followed by lively interview with Takeda in some Hibike-event earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WYnsUokyHU |
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omiya
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Thanks also for the report - it's a lot of work getting the details correctly reported for such an article.
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