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  1. Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but Music City has confirmed (although not very publicly) that the corps will get new uniforms for the corps' 10th anniversary.
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  2. http://www.crossmen.org/blogs/-br--br--nbsp--nbsp--nbsp-news/2017/10/23/crossmen-design-team-to-return-in-2018
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  3. And that's exactly the point. Symbolic gestures are powerful. In this land, everyone has the right to freedom of expression, providing it's done "peaceably". VPUS exercised this right recently by walking out of a football game, thereby protesting the protest. Even anarchists, supremacists and other wanna-be nazis are entitled to their opinions, but usually forget the "peaceably" part. Yelling a racial slur while swinging a club at somebody doesn't qualify as protest, but does meet the standard for a felony. Children who can't play nice must be sent to their rooms. We thought we fixed all that racism stuff in the '60s. How naive of us. And drum corps, for all its positive social qualities, was not immune from discrimination. One of today's major contenders, located within a large and very diverse metropolitan area, didn't see its first Black member until 1974. It's not that someone stood at the gate with a stick. Those kids just didn't see themselves in that uniform, so they didn't bother to go there. Now they do. It's that subtle, and that obvious. Symbolic actions produce results. They always have.
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  4. Hah! I totally guessed it before even watching the video. That was Lento from Dance Movements by Philip Sparke. Cavaliers did that in '98 for their 50th anniversary. (The funky little song they did before that was also from Dance Movements.) There aren't many muted trumpet features in drum corps history. :) Mike
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  5. Especially when lots of wine is involved.
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  6. http://sportzedge.com/2017/10/20/yale-football-player-alex-galland-did-not-kneel-he-played-trumpet-with-the-band-during-the-national-anthem-then-punted-and-place-kicked-in-the-game-that-followed/ Coincidentally, the assistant band director of Yale is a Cadet alum returning to the Cadets brass faculty for 2018, Joseph Guimaraes.
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  7. I was completely blown away mystified by this show. Let's just admit right here and now that THIS is the future of DCI. And I, for one, am probably going to like it a LOT more that the HORSE-HOCKEY that's running around the drum corps field now. The design of this is exceptional. From visual GE, to staging, to color pallet changes to utilizing the "backstage" and I will even say execution - I LOVE HEARING REEDS AND WINDS PRESENTED CORRECTLY AND BALANCED - the muted trumpets were beautiful and I appreciated the visual candy of the the "flitting" side-to-side black and white color guard. And THANK YOU to the audio engineer who kept all that balanced. I know the stadium live might have been different, but I was not audibly inundated with ANYTHING in that show. (DCI corps could take some cues from the tasteful fader control, IMO.) Dang! I enjoyed that! I say bring on the full-field tarps, baby!
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  8. To answer N.E. Brigand: The original field layout for drum corps was a white line around the perimeter of a football field (goal line, back line, the other goal line and front line) plus one line on the 50 from from the back line to the front line.
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  9. And here's a completely different use of a large tarp in marching band, also from Saturday, but at the other major event, and liked very much by some viewers but despised by others:
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  10. With a long history of stellar participation from students throughout the Commonwealth, the Jersey Surf organization is pleased to announce it’s first-ever satellite “Experience Day” scheduled for Saturday, November 11th in Alexandria. Come meet current and former corps members along with members of our instructional and administrative team during this one-day, very relaxed and informative […] View the full article
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  11. Clearly you haven't seen The Company, Kidsgrove, Jubal, Juliana, Unity etc.. because, yeah.. none of those members work their backsides off to put on entertaining shows or anything like that.. instead they all get high and ride bikes. I'm gonna stop giving any time or consideration to you and your ridiculously flippant remarks before I have to warn myself for a violation of the community guidelines.
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  12. I wouldn't read too much into this. There is a former BD member/BAC staff member who teaches at a college music program in Boston who is currently on Troopers brass staff. He is a good guy and I'm sure he is probably the person who set this up. Good for Troop!
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  13. Considering that he and Ferguson are so tight, I would certainly think so. He is the sound designer on almost every project Ferguson writes for.
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  14. Presenting their 2017 program, "A Tribute to Pyware"....
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  15. leave Kristi out of this
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  16. Someone outside of Phantom could be an asset, but from my observations over the past few years is that the musical book has been good as has the design, but the two have not meshed that well. Perhaps a single vision may be more of a possibility with someone like Will Pitts as program coordinator. Someone involved who was part of some of Phantom's great shows doesn't hurt either.
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  17. True enough. The Drum & Bugle Corps genre has changed more fundamentally, and transformationally than just about any other youth sport, or youth team competitive endeavor one can think of, imo. It did not change in all areas , of course( some are maintained as " traditional " in several aspects just as they were in the 1950's, for example ), but the transformation of the Drum & Bugle Corps genre is as breathtaking in its scope, breadth, than just about anything else we could think of, imo. My guess, such transformational change will continue over the coming decades as well. Marchers of today no doubt won't all be on board with THOSE anticipated changes in the future either ( ie, clarinets, flutes, rock guitars, violins, saxophones et al.... whatever) The instrumentations, attire, judging sheets, etc will look like nothing like 2017 for example. The only thing that will probably remain unchanged will be that in 10, 20, 30 years, the Blue Devils will continue to dominate the activity every bit as much as they have for the last 30 years, imo. That part... in my view... will more than likely remain unchanged.... as for " Aunt Nellie " she was apparently able to roll with the changes, that many others over the years simply could not. Good for her. She seemed like quite a resilient gal.
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  18. While it's true that Aunt Nellie resisted the decision to introduce a female component into the Cadets at first (She was a staunch traditionalist), she ultimately embraced the idea, as this photo proves: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1078&bih=486&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=garfield+cadets+uniforms&oq=garfield+cadets+uniforms&gs_l=psy-ab.3...171199.177501.0.177968.12.12.0.0.0.0.341.2191.1j2j6j1.10.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..2.4.981...0j0i24k1j0i30k1.0.q2FYpEWaMDI#imgrc=K_nl0WQxlDM_KM: She's "pinning" the sash for one of the guard (Andrea Di Martino) before a show in '77. Note that Andrea's very non-traditional uniform includes "hot pants". Aunt Nellie's world was changing, along with the entire drum corps activity, but she rolled with it. At that point, though, the national color was still on the field, and if memory serves, the young lady pictured had begun her performance career guarding it with a side-arm.
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  19. He's also one of the folks who put the Long Island Sunrisers on the map in the 1960s, when he and a bunch of others (the Sasso brothers, Billy Cobham, Bill Hightower, among others) joined Sun when the Queensmen folded...for the 1963 season and beyond. Without Frank and the rest of that crew, Sun might never have risen above the level of local-circuit corps. But I digress. LOL
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