Legalhack

There are a number of stumbling blocks to obtaining widespread appeal. One is availability of live performances. Drum corps is most compelling when viewed live and in person. However, the drum corps performance season is short. In addition, a great many localities are not within one hour of a single drum corps show. Moreover, many localities that host a show will host only one show the entire summer. Other forms of live music do not have this problem. An orchestra, for example, tends to focus on the single community (some tour, of course). It is of the community in one significant sense or another, it markets to that community intensively, and it provides multiple performances that cover a majority of the calendar year. Other forms of commercial music are even more ubiquitous as the live entertainment in eating and drinking establishments. So, how can drum corps overcome this hurdle? Given current technology, I'm at a loss to come up with a solution. The good news is that technology will make distributing the product in real time increasingly easy.

scientific wild a#* guess

Technical analysis = SWAG

Then why does this thread exist?

No beef commercial, no audience participation in the Cadets's performance of Hoedown. "What's Opera, Doc?" never gets old to me.

That's to be expected. After all, Bugs Bunny exposed the masses to opera from time to time ("I killed the wabbit . . .").

Well, colleges want money but also one of the things that money buys, exposure. In a joint venture, a college would also want some level of control for affirmative reasons (to determine how its name is used) and defensive reasons (to prevent acts that expose the school to liability).

Didn't Capital Regiment and Northern Illinois University conduct an experiment in this a few years back?

Every teacher I know tells me that, over the summer, kids generally lose ground relative to where they were at the end of the previous summer. Thus, short summer vacations would not only provide more instructional time, it would reduce the time during which knowledge degrades. Consequently, there is some marginal benefit to shorter summer breaks. On the other hand, summer vacations are the only means to a number of valuable life experiences (such as holding down a full-time job or marching drum corps or attending a science camp). Of course, expanding the school year may mean renegotiating contracts with teachers' unions (and increasing teacher pay at least 10 percent) to reflect the addditional days worked. So, it may not happen anytime soon.

Fewer shows is a daunting problem. I live in a fairly large town (well over 100,000 in population). However, there was not one show within a 2-hour drive of my town this summer and there was only one show in the entire state. Kind of makes it difficult to grow the pie here.

Or Emmerson, Lake and Palmer

2007.

Sure about relative placements in 1984?

You identified the monopoly at stake, bingo hall ownership. Since the consumers of the halls are non-profits (who, in turn, sell gambling to the public), introducing some competition is likely to benefit the non-profits as a whole (without passing judgment on their respective "missions" or effectiveness). Thus, unless an organization permanently has politicians in it's pocket, a revenue stream that turns on keeping government-enforced monopoly power is always at risk. Monopolistic pricing attracts market entry and the non-profit "landlord" is always outnumbered by the potential "tenants."

You may be right and perhaps The Cavaliers never officially incorporated geographical (or sponsorship) terms in the name. However, when there were hundreds of corps around the country (many with similar names), others seem to have do so. http://historical-drum-corps-publications....19_archive.html Too bad that, when someone says "Cadets," "Cavaliers" or "Vanguard," DC fans no longer need clarification.