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Cadets and Cavaliers would put aside their ancient emnity, march west, and restore the Union.

No webcast. Scores at the end. BD's site should give you reports throughout the night.

Thank you!!! :)

Where is the Quarters/Semis cutoff? Translation: Did Xmen make it in?

Good call. I frankly thought it a lousy idea to begin with. The organization's site is no place for that kind of thing. Save it for independent sites like DCP.

My father always told me never to boo amateurs. Professionals who are being paid, you can boo. That's why I would never boo at drum corps no matter how much I didn't like it. Enjoy your night. :)

"This I Believe" on Wikipedia

Believe it or not, there is a serious point to be made in all the whining (on this thread.) The people who asked what believing in "choice" meant are absolutely right. The problem with "believing in choice" is that leads to the next question "choice of what?" Without a specific answer, people are free to supply any answer they want. Is it about abortion? Is it about liking Cadets-or Cavaliers-or Troopers? Is it about woodwinds in DCI? Is it about more brands of beer at the local six-pack outlet? Nobody knows - indeed nobody can say. Believing in Progress is pretty much the same thing. It leads to further questions? Progress - towards what? Why? Who defines Progress? And who can tell me when I've progressed enough? Or is progress as progress alone defined as good? I've gone on record as saying I like how Cadets use narration this year. But if they use words, words have meaning. And people are free to debate what those words mean and say that they should have used different words. In "The Joy of Music," Bernstein writes this conversation between himself and some others where he asserts that music as music has no meaning. For example, a certain chord doesn't mean a sunset, etc. I think that one of the reasons amped vocals are so controversial is that it does intend to impose the designer's MEANING upon a show. Because meaning is not communicated by a company front or a soprano solo. That's just music and pageantry, and the audience is still in charge of assigning it a meaning, even if it's "WOW, that's awesome." But MEANING is communicated by words and it puts you as a fan in a different relationship to the show.

Perhaps it is a privilege of being defending champion.

OK, here's a question: why have Quarterfinals at all? If the concept is "elimination tournament," why not have one huge prelims and then finals? This is how it used to be. Why the change? More $? Opportunity for five additional corps to feel accomplishment of "making it one more night?"

From DCI.org: Blue Devils 91.700 Carolina Crown 89.150 Blue Knights 85.050 Glassmen 82.350 Crossmen 79.050 Cascades 75.150

I like the idea of non-finalist corps being in the lot... But you seem to implying that corps are folding b/c they don't make finals. They evidence doesn't point that way. There are more corps in D1 than ten/twelve years ago. Good management is helping in that respect.

add a "te" to your statement and you have yourself a rumor. :P

No flames, just a "relax." We're excited. If Madison catches Bones watch the hype happen from their folks. 'S just drum corps.

Yeah BONES!!! Less than a point behind a San Antonio finalist... You want to get to a practice field NOW!!!

The "theme" of the show was "The ABCs of Modern American Music." A - John Adams (Short Ride in a Fast Machine - opener) B - Leonard Bernstein (Prelude, Fugue and Riffs - closer) C - Aaron Copland (Letter from Home - ballad) Really Cadets 1991 can best be viewed as an experimental show across the board. Both "Short Ride" and "Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs" were pretty out there musically, as the Adams piece had no discernible melody and Bernstein's is full of dissonance. The guard used some unique equipment. The Copland piece, I think, is one of the first attempts for a DCI guard to tell a story using dance (correct me if I'm wrong). Although I'm not too familiar with 1989, they may have done this kind of thing then, and it continued to evolve during "Somewhere" in the 1990 championship show. Co-ed color guards were just becoming the order of the day, allowing the men and women to play "parts" dancing opposite each other in unison or separately. As I recall, it's a pretty simple boy meets girl, they fall in love, they must part type of thing. This kind of use of the co-ed guard was best represented in the 1990s by Blue Devils (96-98, two championship corps) and The Cadets (94-95 especially.) The value of 1991 is that it allowed Cadets to try some new things which would lead to a second place finish in 1992 and a championship in 1993.

Um, yes it is a coincidence.

Until about halfway through the opener, the snares were also on tenors. The total was fifteen.

...your front yard is strewn with broken drums, mismatched flags, and rotary-valve bugles. You'll get to it tomorrow.

Cadets 1991, A Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Even though I knew what was coming, I nearly spit my drink all over the monitor... Very nice.