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  1. no, it's objective truth. meet me here for the first regional and we'll look up cv's for judges scoring music captions. you're 100% wrong. whether or not you're okay with it is opinion. and i respect the opinions of people who are okay with it. but don't say things that aren't true, especially if you try defending them with post hoc nonsense. it's just band, but don't talk about things you don't understand.
  2. This is why I love Crown and Bloo in particular. I can almost always count on a musical product that's just as important to them as visual. It's simply not the case for the majority of corps anymore, and I don't blame them with the scoring being so heavily skewed towards visual. The fact that people with zero musical background are scoring music is yet another reason why scores are really a joke in the activity. It's always been kind of a joke, though, lol.
  3. Yeah, that was rough. And 2000 was my favorite top 3 I ever saw live at finals. Went to 98,99,00, and 07...thanks again for that, @JohnD!. That top 3 in 2000 was a riot. The only other top 3 that compares for me is 93, and I never got to see any of those corps live, just on the PBS broadcast.
  4. Their movement was breathtaking to watch live at finals, and we're talking about a top 2 that was also cooking pretty good with the Cadets and Cavies. BD 2000 is one of those weird shows that (for me) was better early season when it was more raw-sounding musically. It felt almost too refined by finals week. I don't know how to explain it.
  5. I realize it's not their show concept, but that poster screams Roland from King's The Dark Tower series.
  6. Saw Glassmen 99 early season when I was stationed in NC. I had seen their 98 show at finals, and I knew they were going to be good, but that 99 show was really amazing to me in particular. Even though they ended up getting 5th again at finals, I felt like it was a big step up. I loved the arrangement and overall production, and they just sounded like they were on their way to top 3 in the near future.
  7. Well done from a fellow Clarinetist! I love playing bass clarinet. Really fun piece.
  8. gigantic list. dci is what really got me into instrumental/classical music as a young teen. I played in the band and enjoyed it and all, but after getting exposed to the following pieces and composers with dci, I became the kid listening to classical on my walkman/discman (yes, i'm old) while all my friends were listening to Nirvana and Kriss Kross. 91 Star: All of the Respighi stuff. This got me to backtrack and watch some older corps,, including Cadets 87. Ended up going to the library and checking out cassettes of both The Pines of Rome and Appalachian Spring. Ended up wearing out the entirely of both cassettes and my love for classical was born. 92/93 Cadets: The Holsinger stuff they used really got me into wind ensemble music for the first time, and I started to really embrace 6:30 AM rehearsals with my band and understand the stuff by John Barnes Chance, De Meij, Gillis, Nelson, etc that we were playing is really really really good. The only way to get recordings of wind ensemble stuff back in the early 90s was my school's music library where out band director would put all of his sample CD's from publishing houses. I "borrowed" them for a couple years. 😉 93 Star: I had heard Adagio for Strings by Barber, but this opened me to all of his other stuff. Same with Bartok. The fall of 93 is when I started playing for the first time in our local regional symphony and the first pieces I performed at a concert were Mahler 1 and we had a guest soloist do Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, so that was more. dci truly was really the catalyst for all of it for me though.
  9. I could name that tune in 4 notes. 😜
  10. getting caught up. listening to this after heehaw was a jolt lol. hard to imagine a corps not doing this soon. love it.
  11. I made a mistake and will always admit when I do. Sorry for overreacting everybody, lets get back on topic.
  12. 100% my mistake then. I should've figured you weren't the type to be negative at all, much less about Mozart, so I apologize.
  13. Must be nice to live in California. Lots of us don't live near drum corps Meccas, and literally the only access we have is through flo. If you're lucky enough to live near lots of live shows or a regional, I recommend dealing with the extra $$ y'all are griping about for tix. You're lucky, period. Add another $500+ in travel costs onto it for the rest of us who aren't so lucky.
  14. One of the things that's been great about this thread is how supportive and positive everybody is. Let's keep it that way, please.
  15. I don't think of Mozart as being that kind of throwaway garbage. A more or less straight arrangement is what I'm talking about. It's a fantastic piece of music, but dismiss it however you want if that's how you have fun. What you're talking about is some orchestrator/arranger playing with a motif and adding arpeggios and double/triple tonguing where it was never meant to be. That can literally be done with any piece of music, not just the one I put up. And no, I wouldn't want that done to anything Mozart wrote. His music doesn't need embellishment for the sake of embellishment.
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