^ Why not? It's all about a different interpretation. I totally agree with you about re-making a movie and changing nothing but the actors, that's just copying (with crayons instead of paint).
But I think these 4 did a fantastic job covering a movement that usually takes a full orchestra (marching band? really? ew).
It's a very moving piece of music, which is probably why they (or anyone else) would choose to do it in the first place.

I agree it is nice playing, but it sort of leaves me wondering, "Why?" It's sort of like the perfect movie.... when someone comes along and remakes it with newer actors, what does that really add to the world? With the amount of writing going on these days for sax quartet, I'm not certain they NEED to have this one in their repertoire.

With that said, so much better than the settings of this piece I have seen for concert band, brass quintet, and <shudder> marching band.

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Iron_&_Wine:The_Trapeze_Swinger

Please remember me happily
By the rosebush laughing
With bruises on my chin
The time when we counted every black car passing

Your house beneath the hill and up until
Someone caught us in the kitchen
With maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank
A vision too removed to mention

But please remember me fondly
I heard from someone you're still pretty
And then they went on to say that the pearly gates
Had some eloquent graffiti

Like 'We'll meet again' and 'Fuck the man'
And 'Tell my mother not to worry'
And angels with their gray handshakes
Were always done in such a hurry

And please remember me at Halloween
Making fools of all the neighbors
Our faces painted white by midnight
We'd forgotten one another

And when the morning came, I was ashamed
Only now it seems so silly
That season left the world and then returned
But now you're lit up by the city

So please remember me mistakenly
In the window of the tallest tower call
Then pass us by but much too high
To see the empty road at happy hour

Gleam and resonate just like the gates
Around the holy kingdom
With words like 'Lost and Found' and 'Don't Look Down'
And 'Someone Save Temptation'

And please remember me as in the dream
We had as rug-burned babies
Among the fallen trees and fast asleep
Aside the lions and the ladies

That called you what you like and even might
Give a gift for your behavior
A fleeting chance to see a trapeze
Swinger high as any savior

But please remember me, my misery
And how it lost me all I wanted
Those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains
The colored birds above their running

In circles 'round the well and where it spells
On the wall behind St. Peter's
So bright on cinder gray and spray paint
'Who the hell can see forever?'

And please remember me seldomly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees, you turn from me
And said the trapeze act was wonderful

But never meant to last, the clowns that passed
Saw me just come up with anger
When it filled with circus dogs, the parking lot
Had an element of danger

So please remember me, finally
And all my uphill clawing, my dear
But if I make the pearly gates
Do my best to make a drawing

Of God and Lucifer, a boy and girl
An angel kissing on a sinner
A monkey and a man, a marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swingers

^Agreed. I've performed at tattoos with the Norwegian King's Guard Marching Band, and it always irks me how the producers never understand that the whole is much more important than the details.

Marching band, acrobats, guy in sumo outfit... It's a traditional Cheese Festival parade!

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Marching band re-enacts "Thriller" video.. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Radiohead-15-Step-w-USC-Marching-Band

Your alma mater, no?

http://www.videosift.com/video/Radiohead-15-Step-w-USC-Marching-Band

1. I was both baptised and confirmed a Lutheran Protestant, but I have been an atheist and/or agnostic all my life.

2. I am a realist by mind and an optimist by heart.

3. I have a brown spot in one of my otherwise blue eyes.

4. I have flown a Vomit Comet.

5. I didn't vomit.

6. I played euphonium in the Norwegian military's Royal Guard's marching band.

7. I performed with them in front of several thousand spectators in a hockey venue in Halifax.

8. I have later switched to the jazz trombone.

9. I started singing in choirs when I was 20.

10. I was once mistaken for a girl at an airport in India, and got searched behind a curtain by two female customs officers instead of the burly male officer.

11. I have been humiliated in basketball in front of several million indian TV viewers.

12. I have never taken painkillers against a hangover, no matter how terrible.

13. I am very skinny, in spite of my exercise-free lifestyle.

14. I have two brothers who are remarkably similar to me in every conceivable way.

15. I wore braces into high school.

16. I consider myself a competent and safe driver.

17. I nearly crashed the car on the same day I got my driver's license.

18. I have never used a spellchecker.

19. I know a lot about quantum mechanics.

20. I have tried to learn string theory and failed miserably.

21. I have no idea what kind of job I want to make a living of.

22. I think I would be a good father.

23. I talk a more high class norwegian than my background should suggest.

24. When watching a movie, I am frequently the only person laughing. (Except if my brothers are there too.)

25. VideoSift is the internet community I have invested most emotionally in.

okay, it's got techno polka, a marching band, a title of "Gas Gas" and Weird Al is strangely absent.

But did they at least use some GUI interfaces in Visual Basic? I can't imagine blowing up a diamond with high resonance pitch coming from a marching band without at least some sort of GUI to back it up on a software hard drive somewhere.

Michael Bay rules!

Disturbing is a parade we had here in PA. I saw an entire marching band with a total of 3 kids that weren't overweight.

thats some erwin wurm shit right there. particularly liked the marching band bass drum headed people.

Rather interesting how only a scant few break formation to help the injured soldier. All the vast majority did was turn their bodies from the waste up to watch, keeping their military/marching band feet firmly planted.

Well trained.

Verse 1
A long long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died


So, bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my chevy to the levee
But the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die

Verse 2
Did you write the Book of Love
And do you have faith in God above
If the Bible tells you so
Do you believe in rock n' roll
Can music save your mortal soul
And can you teach me how to dance real slow
Well, I know that you're in love with him
'Cause I saw you dancin' in the gym
You both kicked off your shoes
Man, I dig those rhythm & blues
I was a lonely, teenage broncin' buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died
I started singin'


Verse 3
Now for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the Jester sang for the King and Queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
In a voice that came from you and me
Oh, and while the King was looking down
The Jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
And while Lenin read a book on Marx
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died
We were singin'


Verse 4
Helter Skelter in a summer swelter
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter
Eight miles high and falling fast
It landed foul on the grass
The players tried for a forward pass
With the Jester on the sidelines in a cast
Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the Sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance
Oh but we never got the chance
'Cause the players tried to take the field
The marching band refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died
We started singing


Verse 5
Oh, and there we were, all in one place
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again
So come on, Jack, be nimble, Jack be quick
Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
'Cause fire is the devils only friend
Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in Hell
Could break that Satan's spell
And as flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singing


Verse 6
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play

And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
And the three men I admire most
The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died
And they were singin'


Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my chevy to the levy
But the levy was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this'll be the day that I die

They were singin'
Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my chevy to the levy
But the levy was dry
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey and rye
Singing this'll be the day that I die