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I guess four years is a long time. Both the Colts and Cadets participated in the last inaugural parade.

Alexander Nevsky? Fire of Eternal Glory? Tchaikovsky Serenade?

1986 27 Lancers Sondheim Suite. There's a very poor quality high-cam video on youtube. I would really like to get some behind the scenes info on how challenging it was to make such a drastic stylistic change.

Yikes! So it will be a show I enjoy listening to, much like '88 Spirit of Atlanta? (and I know you're kidding, right?)

Personally, three of the non-finalist corps entertained me more than some of the finalist corps. I do imagine a "what could have been" scenario with the Oregon Crusaders. They blew me away with a very original, imaginative and entertaining show. I just wonder how high they could have placed had they participated in a longer tour. The design and talent certainly wasn't lacking.

I see that Pioneer is branching out and planning camps in North Carolina and perhaps New York. Also, they are going in a different musical direction in 2013. You've got to respect them for stepping a bit out of their comfort zone. Hopefully, their endeavors will be fruitful. Check out their revamped website and VOTE!

Did you vote today?

Vote! It is so easy. Link to your facebook page.

How does Nite Express fit into all this?

Juliet! She really got her act together over the course of the Summer.

A solo act?

The person who posted that comment lacks basic math skills.

I think some big unison moves might impress middle school kids. Rotating blocks, unison guard work.

I would love to see those gerrymandered districts!

Thanks to everyone who has responded to this thread. I've been assembling information on different recruiting techniques and would like to eventually send them off to a corps director. Here are some more ideas I was mulling over. Have at 'em. Offer to make lunch for a H.S. marching band that might be pulling an all day Saturday rehearsal. A corps food truck would be an impressive sight and corps certainly have experience putting out food. What kind of a budget would you be looking at for lunch? You could post a typical corps rehearsal day on a whiteboard to give the kids an idea of what to expect. I feel many college band directors are touchy about having corps recruit their marching bands members. Here's a way around that - Get in touch with the music fraternities on campus and offer to do a pizza party/recruitment session, thus avoiding a director who turns his/her nose up at marching drum corps. What other kind of "out of the box" ideas can you come up with?