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luvs me sum mello!

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  1. I love The Cavaliers. But comparing 1994 drum corps to 2009 is not a fair fight. 2009 Crown wins.
  2. Would you be satisfied if they renamed it? Maybe to "Tour of Champions from the last TWO DECADES." Seriously get over the TOC already and earn your way in....
  3. Not true. My alma mater has no football team and hasn't for over 25 years. The marching band is not a "part-time" experience. While it may not consume near the time DC does, it functions as a lab for music education majors and as an ambassador for the university. Of course it would be difficult...but most things worth doing are.
  4. The University of Texas at Arlington. They have a corps style band and no football team. Haven't since 1985. They're marching with Scouts 2008 instruments, complete with contras. Given some more funding (and more then 6 hours a week rehearsal), it'd be an easy transition/addition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kMBIKXQ6w Drumline this past season: http://www.youtube.com/user/UTArlingtonMusic?blend=1&ob=5#p/c/C5D0BBCFD51E0DD5/6/LIjFbn68g-4
  5. Question to the OP: Are we talking about a kid marching a long tenure at a single corps or multiple? Because that would make a huge difference in the number of multi-year vets.
  6. On field warm-up should be "Sinfonian Motto", complete with lead trumpets having fun with the last chord. OASAASLLS
  7. I hardly think it's too much of a commitment (suggesting kids these days don't commit), but that it is far more difficult for a 14 or 15 year old to make a top-tier corps and then march there for the whole time. In Kris's case, he made the Blue Stars back before anyone in the stands thought they had a chance in (then) Div 1.
  8. Not a percussionist here, but I think it's a type of gong scrape effect thing.
  9. BD. The later in the season, the less time for people to say how much they hate it. *rim shot*
  10. I must have missed the little fugue mention. Saw the nature boy rumor.
  11. From corpsreps.com: The Cavaliers 2001: Nature Boy and Fugue in G Minor (Little Fugue) by Bach http://corpsreps.com/corpsreps.cfm?view=corpsdet&corps=9&corpstype=Junior
  12. My bad. Either way, Daugherty is great. Haven't listened to either of these works, but if it's like his other stuff then I can't wait.
  13. Well we agree that it is material from Michael Daugherty's "Metropolis Symphony."
  14. People never read anything longer then a couple sentences. And even if they read your well thought out, well written argument on X, they will pick one thing (usually having nothing to do with the core of the argument) and pick on that. 1) Nothing would change if this forum didn't exist. 2) No.
  15. We did lines of powdered sugar off a snare drum head...oh wait, that wasn't me, that was those blue fellas.
  16. Was just told by a current march member. Said they were handed it at this last weekend's camp.
  17. Bluecoats are doing Train of Tears from Daugherty's "Metropolis Symphony".
  18. Thanks. Wasn't expecting as positive reaction as it has been getting. lol
  19. No they don't. They have pitch issues and good luck tuning a line. I've heard the USMC Band play them live and, while I am a huge fan of the USMC concert ensembles, the drum corps is not that impressive. They stick to heritage and don't have to compete, so why switch? You obviously equate crass with loud. Yes, yesterday's corps were far more abrasive, but today's corps are louder. Better tuning and better balance makes for a louder sound. Physics win. It isn't? G bugles are more difficult to tune within sections and across the line and in order for the low brass to hold down the very bright, very shrill sopranos, they have to blow their guts out and get a nasty sound. Orchestration 101. We have decades of just horrible playing on G bugles next to near 2 decades of superior playing on Bb. So I ask again: If things are better, why go back? And no, just because the tint of your rose colored glasses is getting astoundingly dark doesn't count.
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