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I'm not in the "drop everything and gtfo out of indy" crowd, but perhaps maybe find a new venue when the contract is up? The new stadium for the Vikings in Minneapolis is supposed to be real nice when it opens. But yeah, DCI may file a formal letter of complaint but I do not see them changing anything right away. I would be very interested to see if this affects anyone during this summer - not all corps house or rehearse at public schools.

Anyone know the rehearsal site for Vanguard Cadets? Hopefully weather holds, but at least field at Athens HS is turf.

It's all situational. Troopers revamped their design and instructional staff going into last season and saw significant improvement. SCV has had a number of staff changes in the last several years with varying degrees of success. Cavaliers changes prior to this year have hurt more than helped, especially in visual and brass. I think the goal of any staff change is to create consistency; nobody hires a designer or caption head with the intention of replacing them anytime soon. The top 3 corps in DCI last season have been largely consistent in their most successful areas, and I don't believe that's coincidental.

Not sure if it was the last time, but Blue Stars won this same show last year when it got shortened due to rain. They were last corps to go on; Boston and Phantom didn't get to perform due to weather.

Spot on. You gotta play it like it was wrote. I had the same issue with Crown last season. I'm a Philip Glass purist myself, and what Michael Klesch did to Einstein on the Beach was horrific. Here I am, looking forward to enjoying five full hours of abstract modern opera, and instead I get some 12 minute frankenstein excuse of a show. When I saw the original in 1976 at the New York Opera House and then saw it 35 years later in Toronto; those, THOSE, were the masterpieces. To think they gave those kids gold medals makes me physically ill; these same kids who more than likely never saw the opera live and probably never will. If someone told the vocalists they had the style down, the same way Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton, Paul Mann, and Samuel M. Johnson had it down...those kids were lied to. Ugh. (to OP: No hard feelings, couldn't resist making the comment. Sorry the show isn't to your liking, I'm just glad to see Kenton and Ellis back on the field again)

It's been almost done to death already, but Radiohead's music translates very well to the activity.

In other news...

Halfway through Blue Stars now and skipping has resumed. Not thrilled right now

I'm watching on about a five-minute delay. That seems to have fixed a lot of the problems.

I'm starting to think this webcast is DCI's way of giving a big middle finger to TOC

Can I request that my fan network purchase money be specifically allocated to pay for Tom Blair and not whoever is running this webcast?

Audio quality now is on "backfield concourse at Lucas Oil" setting. And we have shaky cam now too!!

I love all these drum major shots. Nothing like watching a backfield conductor beat time during a key drill move. (On a not sarcastic note, Dean is a hell of a conductor)

Just started watching. Nothing like an evening of HD Corps in Mono with severe distortion. Also, I'm waiting for some good closeups. Really interested in inspecting the quality of individual blades of turf.

http://www.madisonscouts.org/blog/?p=873 The Madison Scouts and Creative Director James Mason are please to announce their 2013 production titled “Corps of Brothers – 75 Years of Survival”. The show will feature Modest Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone”. The corps will be celebrating it’s 75th Anniversary throughout the 2013 season. Auditions for the 2013 Madison Scouts will begin in November, dates and locations to be announced soon.

Not sure which was worse, opening ceremonies or NBC's coverage. Probably the latter.

At some point in every young person's life, there's a moment where you learn not to post your every thought on the internet. This is a good teachable moment. There are people who post on here who would benefit from some similar learning as well.

Blue Stars are holding spring training this season at Waldorf College in Iowa.

Just curious, but out of the hornlines that have switched to Jupiter the past few seasons, were any of them not previously King hornlines? Interesting how none of the Yamaha or even Dynasty brass lines are switching, and that Jupiter is gaining their market share at the expense of only one of their competitors.

According to SCV's facebook page, "Something Blue" is indeed Mackey's "Hymn to a Blue Hour".

The drug addict comment is based on my experience of watching Payton play a concert for middle school/high school students. Long story short, Payton was messed up out of his mind, and played arguably the worst concert I've ever seen. I think he ended up conveying a pretty effective anti drug message though. There are a few points in there that I feel are valid for discussion, but they shouldn't be coming from him. And a lot of that rant is just garbage.

Payton needs to lay off the dope. Some respect for his contemporaries wouldn't hurt either.

As an encore tune, sure.

Andrew Markworth as arranger. Not sure about caption head, but I wouldn't be surprised if they promoted from within.