mfrontz

I'm quite sure that all corps only receive the rights to arrange the music they play for competitive shows and for official corps or DCI recordings. BD and SCV obviously feel that they have a responsibility to themselves and to the owners and legal distributors of the music to prevent it being shown for free on YouTube. Other corps perhaps have different concerns. Brass warm-ups or percussion warm-ups that are merely exercises and are not copyrighted are a different story. I, too, miss seeing the shows for free, but the corps would certainly seem to be within their rights.

I don't believe all-age corps are scored at DCI sanctioned shows in the Midwest. The West coast may be a different story.

However, the Cavie love will be offset this year by the Crossmen love...

I agree with you that the second-tier corps are greatly improving and that is GREAT for DCI. But I don't believe that corps 5-7 have a chance to win it all. Until proven otherwise.

I'm hoping to see the Troopers next week in Hershey PA! Looking forward to a great show.

Not being critical of the staff, but I would think this would have been just such a neat music theory/history tidbit that someone should have mentioned it at some point. But hey, they were pushing enough envelopes in 93 as it was. It might have just been one too many pieces of data.

I would think that MedeaBrass would have known about this if staff were doing it on purpose. Star's staff would have explained it to the kids. Pretty neat idea, though.

The Dust Bowl rules. Don't mess with the Dust Bowl.

I don't know about "out" danced, but Cadets 95 and 02 (both WWII retrospectives) had quite a bit of great dancing.

Frankly, in this case the hype of having "no" clips is even better than the hype of having clips.

someone got there before me.

They originally announced "Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs" to close their 2001 Juxtaperformance show but substituted Bizet's "Farandole."

I did not know Joe Kempf, but he was an alumnus of both my high school marching band and my drum and bugle corps. He obviously made both organizations proud. I will be thinking of him on Sunday. -Chip Frontz

Star 1993 at end of show SCV 2001 at end of show BD 1991 at end of opener and end of show Granted, those are only two but I'm sure there are others...

Rotary valves? :P

What I remember most clearly was seeing fourteen...FOURTEEN contras march onto the field at Hershey that year. "ARE THE CONTRAS READY?"

http://www.yea.org/site/PageServer?pagename=aboutcrossmen

Phantom 1996.

All I know is that Cadets playing Nancy Galbraith would be pretty cool.

G, got any Crossmen 92 from A-town?

A stinker might be a bit much... ...but so is "one of the greatest shows of all time." It was a bit experimental, a bit "out there," something to stretch. Some things worked, some didn't. I remember liking Phantom a lot better at Franklin Field in 1991.

w/Stp:

The Blue Devils present: Adventures in Polka

The Cavaliers had the highest score in finals three years in a row. They were champions three years in a row. Enough said.