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as with any other era of drum corps, older fans latch onto current corps that most embody the more traditional things we're into. or they go all dino and rawr and gift us with that attitude here on dcp and other sites. I'm into strong music books from all captions and couldn't possibly care less about characters/emoting in any context in any show ever made or currently being produced. Crown, SCV, Bloo, and more recently, Boston, have all continued to tick that box for me the most consistently over the past few years. They could all go out in rehearsal gear and practice flags and perform and I'd still be into the show most of the time because they tend to do the best at making music the star (or at least c0-star) of a show rather than just something that accompanies the visual.

Yeah, I feel the same. Different eras have different sets of skills both to instruct and to execute. I don't think in terms of 1 being better or harder than any other. Zero nuance to thinking that way, and it's certainly the wrong approach when trying to get the current generation to generate interest in what came before.

BD and Star were the most consistent for me.

Yep. That's what I meant by "counts the most on judging sheets".

I'm just bracing myself for pitch correction to start making its way into live sound engineering for shows. I feel like it's inevitable. I finally got around to watching the Wicked movies recently. Every song is pitch corrected to oblivion and it makes ZERO sense. Cynthia Erivo has about as flawless of voice as humanly possible (if you haven't heard her sing "I'm Here" from The Color Purple you're missing out on an all-time great performance), and Ariana Grande's pitch accuracy is also incredible. The amount of pitch correction they did in post is disgusting. Made every song feel inert to me. Same with their "live" special on Disney. There's raw footage of them out there in that performance, and it is spectacular. But the pitch correction in the final production neuters every bit of emotion. This is pervasive in pretty much all popular music now, and since it's pretty much the wild west in DCI when it comes to finding new ways to electronically manipulate sound, it's coming soon I'll reckon. Goes along with my prediction about hornlines shrinking substantially over the next several years. Could help a lot with bringing down touring costs and free up more spots to boost what counts the most on judging sheets. I'm not angry or bitter, just sad.

the enhanced/"fake" sound that he's talking about is part of the reason that I don't really make it a point to go to try to get to live shows anymore. i enjoy watching corps rehearse at my local show, though.

I teach 9th graders all day so I understand. Still makes me laugh. When I tell them I learned to type on an actual typewriter is when they think I'm REALLY old.

and of course VK is the answer to an anomalously specific question like this.

Medea and Adagio in the same show. I wore out a cassette tape of the ny phil with both pieces on the same album. Looking forward to that. The Newman track is awesome too. And add in Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd. I'm sold, and I can see how the pieces can all work together.

designers have LOS in mind in terms of acoustics and perfect weather from the get go, don't they? i think designers would adapt to any indoor venue for finals, but i don't see outdoor for champs happening ever again.

High schools as well. Disney's gotten more lax with this, I guess. I really do wonder what orgs have had to pay to get permission to portray the characters and storylines from the movie with the music rights.

i know you're joking, but it probably won't happen lol. Disney will sell rights to arrange music from the movie, but they won't allow it to support any type of enactment of characters or storytelling unless you're willing to pay big $$$$$$$$$$$$ on top of the music license. I know high schools have done it and I wonder what they had to pay.

put an inflation calulator link up but nm, it only goes up to 2023

Indeed. Maybe getting a panel with design bona fides to give their thoughts on key elements of shows, even if they don't necessarity give a score? That would make it a little more Rotten Tomatoes like rather than just The Voice. No matter what, looks like a fun way to write and read reviews. That's kind of fallen off on here.