hostrauser Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 The Forward Dynamics music organization from Oregon, Wisconsin, is pleased to announce the DCP-I Season XXI program for their World Class flagship corps... the Polaris Regiment!PROGRAM: "Titus Andronicus" -- Prelude to "Attila" by Giuseppe Verdi -- Parodos from "Medea" by Samuel Barber -- Commando March by Samuel Barber -- The Pines of the Appian Way from "Pini de Roma" by Ottorino Respighi -- Symphony No. 1, Movement III by Samuel Barber -- Overture to "La forza del destino" by Giuseppe Verdi -- Circuses (from "Feste Romane") by Ottorino Respighi -- Dance of Vengeance from "Medea" by Samuel Barber By S. Clarke Hulse's count, Titus Andronicus is a play with "14 killings, 9 of them on stage, 6 severed members, 1 rape (or 2 or 3, depending on how you count), 1 live burial, 1 case of insanity and 1 of cannibalism--an average of 5.2 atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines." Reviewer Mike Gene Wallace adds, "This is a great play. We're talking fourteen dead bodies, kung-fu, sword-fu, spear-fu, dagger-fu, arrow-fu, pie-fu, animal screams on the soundtrack, heads roll, hands roll, tongues roll, nine and a half quarts of blood, and a record-breaking 94 on the vomit meter." Really, there's not much more to say; that is the essence of the play.Titus Andronicus is a non-stop potboiler catalog of abominations (with the poetry itself counted as a crime by many critics). Titus Andronicus, Roman general, returns from ten years of war with only four out of twenty-five sons left. He has captured Tamora, Queen of the Goths, her three sons, and Aaron the Moor. In obedience to Roman rituals, he sacrifices her eldest son to his own dead sons, which earns him Tamora's unending hatred and her promise of revenge. Tamora seduces and then is made empress by the new emperor Saturninus. To get back at Titus, she schemes with her lover Aaron to have Titus's two sons framed for the murder of Bassianus, the emperor's brother. Titus's sons are beheaded. Unappeased, she urges her sons Chiron and Demetrius to rape Titus's daughter Lavinia, after which they cut off her hands and tongue so she cannot give their crime away. Finally, even Titus's last surviving son Lucius is banished from Rome; he subsequently seeks alliance with the enemy Goths in order to attack Rome. Each new misfortune hits the aged, tired Titus with heavier impact. Eventually, he begins to act oddly and everyone assumes that he is crazy. Tamora tries to capitalize on his seeming madness by pretending to be the figure of Revenge, come to offer him justice if Titus will only convince Lucius to cease attacking Rome. Titus, having feigned his madness all along, tricks her, captures her sons, kills them, and makes pie out of them. He feeds this pie to their mother in the final scene, after which he kills both Tamora and Lavinia, his own daughter. A rash of killings ensue; the only people left alive are Marcus, Lucius, Young Lucius, and Aaron. Lucius has the unrepentant Aaron buried alive, and Tamora's corpse thrown to the beasts. He becomes the new emperor of Rome. Easily the most violent and gory of all of Shakespeare's tragedies, Polaris Regiment will be reimagining this play as if it took place it an alternate-universe version of 1930s fascist Italy (with a nod to director Julie Taymor and the film "Titus" which used a similar plot conceit). Polaris Regiment will be combining the lush Italian sounds of Verdi and Respighi with the dark, unstable music of Samuel Barber to drive home the increasing rage and vengeance that permeates the play. Source Music: Part I -- Prelude to "Attila" by Giuseppe Verdi / Parodos from "Medea" by Samuel Barber Verdi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvJJOEdcyj4 (all) Barber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq2aE-tpZWc (first 2:30) Part II -- Commando March by Samuel Barber / The Pines of the Appian Way from "Pini de Roma" by Ottorino Respighi Barber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu9ZHDhOzNk (all) Respighi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQwGTe_MueM (all) Part III -- Symphony No. 1, Movement III by Samuel Barber / Overture to "La forza del destino" by Giuseppe Verdi Barber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dq68SSfy5Y&t=690 (11:30 through 16:07) Verdi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxpNBUg5VmY&t=80 (1:20 through 2:13) Part IV -- Circuses (from "Feste Romane") by Ottorino Respighi / Dance of Vengeance from "Medea" by Samuel Barber Respighi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7nyEaXhb-c (all) Barber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq2aE-tpZWc&t=934 (15:34 through 19:00) MEMBERSHIP: 15080 Brass (24 trumpets/flugelhorns, 16 mellophones, 24 baritones/euphoniums, 16 contras)32 Percussion (9 snares, 4 tenors, 5 basses, 14 front ensemble)36 Color Guard2 Drum MajorsSTAFF:Corps Director: Austin EllisonProgram Coordinator: Kevin PogueMusical Arrangements: Marshall Grandstaff (brass), Doug Maddox (percussion)Visual Design: David CheungBrass Caption Head: Alex WolvertonBrass Staff: Alan Ison, Andy Kuhnert, Cassie Melanson, Gene Passmore, Pete RuddockPercussion Caption Head: Sam MaddoxPercussion Staff: Erika Fontes, Cole Lindel, Marshall Mountcastle, Andrew SerranoVisual Caption Head: Adam ReimerVisual Staff: Alberto de la Cruz, John Houghton, Sam Rowden, Colin Sundstrom, Yasuo TakahashiGuard Caption Head: Jennifer BlackGuard Staff: Kristin Griggs, Joseph Janssen, Brittney WoodhamUNIFORMS:Uniform design by HostrauserUniform rendering by StarOrg, based on a template by PRsop2000CORPS HISTORY:Season X - "Dichotomy: Good vs. Evil" - 6th place, 95.072Season XI - "The Very Last Day in the History of the World" - 4th place, 95.785Season XII - "Still Life Moving Fast" - 13th place, 94.150Season XIII - "Who Goes There?" - 2nd place, 95.020Season XIV - "Visions of Fear and Lust" - 9th place, 95.050Season XV - "Around the World in 80 Days" - 7th place, 95.825Season XVI - "Pretty Little Nightmare" - 2nd place, 96.150Season XVII - "Siege" - 2nd place, 95.670Season XVIII - "HEX" - 3rd place, 95.600Season XIX - "Valhalla" - 3rd place, 95.355 Season XX - "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" - 3rd place, 95.855Forward Dynamics: 5100 West Netherwood Road, Oregon, WI 53575Forward Dynamics performs on King Brass, Pearl Marching Percussion, and Yahama Concert Percussion.Forward Dynamics is a proud member of the superior FANFARE organization. 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