kardy66

On the dress rehearsal relative to Madison: They have finally taken the leash off the horn line! The music is aggressive, challenging and recognizable. The sound is bright, rhythmic and energetic. The visual matches the speed and aggressiveness of the music, but so far, lacks the control necessary to make the over all show enjoyable. The performers aren't sure of the show visually. That will come. The bigger question is whether the visual (written) "book" is conducive to demonstrating the necessary cleanliness. They need to increase their tolerance level in that area to be successful. They won't peak early!!

I think I was Wrong. It's the Tomita version of Firebird on RCA 1976. not Carlos

Sci-Fi/Firebird works. Listen to Walter (Wendy) Carlos version of Firebird

The chief judge use to tell the judges which show they were working at a wednesday night meeting. however, this was almost 20 years ago. I was sometimes told ahead of time of my own assignment but was sworn to secrecy untill the wed. nitght meeting. pretty sure DCI will post it by tomorrow morning

I was at the show in rockford and I was very disapointed with the blue devils as well as the cavaliers. the blue devils are incredibly talented and are trained very well. execution in all captions. but their show totally lacks in drill. virtually NO interesting FORM DEVELOPMENT. infact it frequently lacks in form all together. coordination must not be on the GE sheet anymore. are we trending toward a circus act? WGI judges on all 3 visual captions has resulted in shows with an overkill by color guards. the guards now are working a hundred miles an hour through the entire program. how can you support music development that grows and build to creating a strong climax. Oh, I forgot. we now longer have musical development, builds and climaxes. now we have a phrase or strain of something. it sounds like a bunch of etudes. Phantom had a very coordinated and tastefull program.

I think blue stars move up. and spirit moves down (if not tonight, eventually)

nothing goes in a straight line. It'll still be a good number

this is how it will end up tonight: Cadets 83.5 SCV 81.1 Madison 78.1 Cavies 77.4 Blue Kn 75.0 Pioneer 63.0

Actually, Cedarburg was the home of the Mercury Thunderbolts. The Thunderbolts drum major, John Vasey joined the scouts when he moved to Madison in 1966. Vasey's father ran the Cedarburg show in the late 60's and early 70's

Kemp on GE visual ensures cavies will win that caption. czapinski ensures cavies win that caption. it's a lock!

I guess this has to be considered the first fracture or crack into the dominant G8

how about: ritual fire dance land of a thousand dances sabre dance...............................but don't dance!!

you're right that people go for the competition which might be why fewer people went to nationals this year. not only did everyone know who was going to win prior to indianapolis but the other corps stay in the same order from thursday to friday to saturday. there is absolutely no suspense. the venue is bad as well and I still say the choice of music is not what the majority of drum corps fans want to here. there's a lot of coordinators out there like charlie the tuna. they're trying to show good taste...but they don't taste good.

you're right!! now and then you hear a familiar "strain". it comes right after you hear 45 minutes of what sounds like repetitive brass exercises and right before the 45 minutes of what sounds like repetitive trumpet etudes. If we know this crap, the concession stands should start serving gray pou pon on there HOT DOGS

some very good points here. however there is a conflict. as you stated the kids want to play a certain style. but if you're talking about expanding the activity to a wider non drum corps audience and an audience that is old enough to be able to pay for tickets you'd better start thinking about playing some music that's not the latest technical edgy version of some obscure composer from the 1800's or the latest concert band composer that's primarly popular on college campus. READ the repertoire of the 22 world class corps. you'll get bored just reading it! worse yet are the corps that destroy the intent of a "piece", loosing the "development" and/or "build" portion. emotion should be the goal. emotion is a heart felt response. your not going to get goose bumps from a manufactured "high" and it's getting to be more and more MANUFACTURED HIGH

however, kemp is on GE tomorrow night. and like the other chicago judges (chops and marie), he will pound the scouts down.

how about this year's cavalier color guard ah, outfit in they're final number. the cross dressing is a must see. they do a "flaming" female impersonating act of the rockettes. just love the gloves!! maybe add a pink feather

when they take off the cave gear for the final tune, they become female impersonators. it will play well in san francisco. it's a "flaming" portrayal of the rockettes

does anybody have an opinion of anything they've seen so far?

unfortunately you're probably right. 15 or 20 years ago there were several confident judges that loved to demonstrate they recognized change from the status quo. and they had no problem reacting and then popping a number. with this wgi bunch......I don't think so

drill doesn't matter anymore. with wgi visual judges, all they'll have to do is have a good guard and the horn line do some of those silly body moves

going WITHOUT the red is more subtle, and better in my opinion. all that red gives them the christmas tree look.

do I detect a show theme here?!! didn't gershwin write "rhapsody" from NY city around this time. slaughter on 10th, same-same

based on THESE numbers spirit lost 6 points in one night. I doubt it

agree! if you're clean at this time of the season, you've got a simple show. period! the cavaliers are closest in repertoire which is a good sign. the more complex takes longer to clean