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He's just trying to counterbalance the American jingoism from last year

Marie Antoinette? Jim Morrison? Princess Diana? Just a few that died somewhat dramatically in the City of Light

Summer of Cross-Tangent

As someone pointed out above, there is often significant staff turnover in any given year, so the staff may in fact know absolutely nothing about that veteran. Also, even in cases where the staff is returning, it helps to have veterans side by side with the new players, not necessarily to evaluate the veterans, but to supply a control group next to all the new experiments.

Scene: SoundStage 1, during filming of group's new Bluegrass video Lead Singer: I am a man of constant sorrow ... Producer: Cut! Hey, Fiddler, you're just standing there playing .... can't you do some squats, or leg kicks while you're doing that? Come on, spice this thing up!!!!

As the director of a sports club, I believe there are also valid psychological reasons to requiring all players to come to auditions, even if going into auditions the team/organization knows full well that they will be bringing back 85+% of the veterans on the team. It fights against the urge of veterans to be complacent, knowing they already have it made. You ALWAYS want them pushing themselves, and this is just one more opportunity to help them keep up intensity and self-progress It fights against a veteran group-think attitude that "we are better than the new kids", which is a very destructive attitude that needs to be weeded out Making them audition is hardly that big of an inconvenience for the players, and sets the tone from day one that all 150 members are equal partners in the season. To me, that's worthwhile. EDIT: I don't know if this tangent really has any more legs to it, but if so, perhaps it should moved to is own thread to avoid further clutter to the Phantom 2015 thread.

The difference being that bluegrass doesn't have a distinct small group of individuals promulgating standards by which each bluegrass group will be judged, via which process all the bluegrass groups would tend towards homogeneity as they played towards that small group's expectations instead of merely playing to the audience of people who want to be entertained.

(Psssttt ... they're not DCI Open Class ....)

"The Red Square" Reed's Russian Christmas Music Khachaturian's Lullaby from Gayane Rimsky Korsakov's Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden Gliere's Russian Sailor's Dance from The Red Poppy Note: they plan to march 128 members.

While that might be an option, I wonder if vets would probably end up taking their chances auditioning rather than pay a deposit so early.

Should they still have to attend the early "audition" camps, even if they are not strictly speaking auditioning? If not, then how do you know whether those kids are actually coming back for sure, or whether instead are actually out auditioning for higher-ranking corps, and only intend to come back home to you if they fail to make the higher corps? Do those people deserve the same automatic acceptance back to the corps? To be honest, despite requiring that vets "audition" again, I wonder if any corps ever actually cut any vets based upon ability at those auditions.

change "this" to "that" and you're quoting a line from Gigi's "It's a Bore" ... is that a hint about the Regiment's new show? Summer of Colette?

Summer of Solar Power Phantom announced that they won the $20,000 Sungevity contest. Congratulations, Regiment!

Correct, according to their tweet this morning: We have one more audition camp this weekend, then we will announce our show. :)

Or they could arrange Billy Idol singing "Monet, Monet"

Carmen may be written by a Frenchie, and sung in French, but it's a Spanish story, so I hope they wouldn't use that as thematic material for a story about Paris ... if they are even doing a story about Paris.

Dear Santa: Please send to the Brunswick Battalion: 6 Yamaha Trumpets 6 Yamaha Mellophones 4 Yamaha Baritones 4 Yamaha Euphoniums 4 Yamaha Tubas 5 Pearl Snares 2 Pearl Tenors 3 Pearl Bass Drums ... and more players to play them. (brand substitutions permitted)

Instead of brass bells, porcelain bowls ...

Summer of Contrabassist [of course, if one or more of those ? is a space, meaning two or more words, it opens up much better possibilities]

Actually, a more serious guess: Summer of Cabaret! Featuring the music of Edith Piaf

My first thought is to send her a Scouts or Cavaliers tshirt.

Perhaps Cendrillon, the opera by Jules Massenet, which was based upon the Perrault version of the Cinderella tale, and premiered in Paris? Yeah, I know ... that's a stretch.

Summer is only 6 letters ... Carnival is 8 - add an exclamation point for 9 - and I think that would fit the spacing shown on the shirt. So Carnival of Animals for the Paris angle ... and a lot of other music similar to Blue Stars' SideShow, I guess!

I looked at Jersey Surf's schedule earlier - they have 19 stops (6 less than Blue Devils, for comparison), and if you drove door to door for each competition (i.e - without factoring in mileage between accommodations and events, detours, free day trips, etc.) - there and back again from their base in NJ is under 7,000 miles.