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vive la difference.

Congratulations to Dawson Burnes as Regiment's new conducting team member.

because we all get stuck at "cost" meaning $$$

Now that it has been publicly announced this weekend in Beloit AND Rockford, Congratulations to DCP poster Dawson Burnes for being named co-conductor of Phantom Regt. 2020. May it be all you have dreamed it would be. Better change that DCP signature quick before you get in trouble with that Corps Director, ha, ha. I hear he's tough. 😛 I guess that Georgia tradition continues there on the Rock River. No pressure though...

Hasn't anyone else seen the "Rhymes with Orange" strip for this Sunday's comics? Might explain why Crown came to put such a heavy emphasis on music... https://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Rhymes_with_Orange/

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Gabriel disagrees with you, right Crownies?

If that were to have happened, it probably would have been when Cadets had one a dozen years back or when Phantom did the "Red Violin" show. You are showing your youth.

I agree with the general tenor of your comments in full EXCEPT for the sentence you have in brackets; it denies the history of competitive drum corps since WWII. For many of us whose schools did not have instrumental music programs (or marching bands if at all, and that includes public schools especially in urban areas or schools without football programs or otherwise) drum corps was the beginning of instrumental music not the end zenith after a stint in BOA or College marching bands. That is a major difference in drum corps today; read the histories of Boston (Most Precious Blood) Crusaders, Casper Troopers, (Holy Name, Garfield) Cadets, The Cavaliers, that is, the founding corps of DCI. Even BD started as a glockenspiel ("bell") and drums corps when the SCVs were the Sunnyvale Sparks (associated with a volunteer FD weren't they?) The history of the mms who became DCI and the history of the movement has changed. Unfortunately, those "deprived" kids in neighborhood, Div. 3 or lower corps, are now deprived of much chance in DCI (current or as "Woodwind corps") unless they are self-taught. Carry on (but not carrion.)

do you have to pay for use of indoor rehearsal sites (classrooms, audit., music labs) or is that all done during class time (for which taxpayers get dunned?) do you have to pay the janitors their hourly rate and holiday weekend rates or is that covered under school budget (for which taxpayers get dunned?) Are your musical instruments (all of them) paid for out of the marching band budget or do you borrow from the school or do you have to pay the school a rental charge? Is your salary as an educator paid by the school district or by the band parents, or are you considered only a part time educator? I'm sure if we had some of the super-sleuth DCP accounting buffs on your stalk that we'd find some ways the school covers some of your ultimate costs.

Finally found the source for what the West Coast designers and some others in DCI term art and is the source of the grovelling, posing, and positioning that has invaded "drill" during the past two decades. The West Coasters in their babble term it "Art."

I agree with your last sentence.

ditto. Ironically, those pushing woodwinds want nothing to do with that summer marching band circuit in Wisconsin that's been around for ages.

Phantom had given us a video that auditions were finished. Now they are having an additional weekend in Beloit advertised as auditions. Cadets have added an audition time in Texas. Mere coincidence? Just seeking to fill holes or up talent levels?

Hook 'Em is not going to like this, ha, ha Jan. 26th, Glenn H.S., 1320 Collaborative Way, Leander, Texas 78641 (cf. Texas.cadets.org)

12/17- Tell Jim, Happy Birthday...Beethoven too. DCP is awfully quiet nowadays without Jim and Brasso.

Go Islanders!

And now back to The Cadets... ...anyone at the Salem callbacks this weekend to help Dans? Reactions???

Well the Republic of Texas is its own country, right?

Why do they no longer welcome you back at these hotels the following year that you have to find a new one for each season??? (only joshing.)

Well if they stand all performance on props, yardlines aren't really needed are they?

and given the technique most current brass instructors use at rehearsal for their brass lines to "sing" (vocally) the parts before the horn line lifts the instruments... I think DCP has seen a few vids over the while of Crown, Cadets, Cavies and Bloo doing exactly that.

Already started in the Northeast for high schools as numbers of high school participants in tackle football dwindle. CT alone saw a dozen less football programs in the past two years. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/2019/08/29/high-school-football-participation-is-on-a-decade-long-decline/#1fe7e55533de There was a time when Blackstone- Millville (Mass.) had no football team but did have an enthusiastic soccer team and a very fine h.s. band who played at the soccer games between periods. They marched on the soccer field quite well and did wonderfully in USSBA and NESBA. They still do well even though they have a football team. https://www.bmmamusic.org/

doesn't this belong on the historical thread?

Lately this thread has been more like Stevie Wonder.