Eleran
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Yeah.... for whatever reason, they've never been able to generate much interest from the audience.
Maybe it's their repertoire ... Cage's 4'33" just tends to be a bit of a yawner.
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By the way, Stu, as I posted before, it's more than just 0.5% if the group actually runs as part of Amazon Associates program and has the link on the corps' website, as they also get advertising fees. As it so happens, just got back from my high school's Marching Band Boosters meeting where they approved the yearly budget, and they average about $600 a year, which equals about 3% of the group's yearly total income. And that's from a small marching band with a very inactive boosters web page, and a very uninvolved group of families.
Doesn't sound like much, but it takes virtually no effort to generate. I could picture a World Class corp generating a couple thousand a year.
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I believe groups that have the Amazon link from their website are also getting more than the 0.5%, as they are operating under the "Amazon Services LLC Associates Program" which pays advertising fees to the group as well as a % of purchase - I'm not sure of the specifics, but it's more significant than a few pennies. Over the course of a year, I think our high school marching band also picks up a couple hundred dollars, which is all "found money" to them.
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Well, I hadn't previously seen any formal announcement by Raiders, so I didn't want to post this info myself, but since it was published in the May edition of Drum Corps World, I guess it's now public knowledge:
- October, by Eric Whitacre
- Month of the Cold Moon (January, 1839), by Roland Barrett
- Into the Joy of Spring, by James Swearingen
- Kingfishers Catch Fire, but John Mackay
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Perhaps your insistance that it will be bad is the preconceived notion that prevents you from enjoying it whem it is done well, ala Crown last year, IMO.
On the other hand, for all the shows where people don't think the narration was necessarily bad, do you believe that you would miss the narration had it been removed?
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I wonder what they did with the grey uniforms they used last year for the beginning of the show. I liked them.
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he's busy spending that $150,000 surplus you gave him on visual props
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I'm thinking floor projections ala Sochi Olympics (though someone has probably already mentioned that)
And PS - I don't approve.
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Is that not the point of the story in the first place? All animals were equal, but then some animals thought they were more equal than others...I agree with you.
So maybe there will be an additional layer of allegory, relating to the G7 and DCI ...
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Dear Garfield, et al. from Fictitious Board:
Rumor has it that you recently graciously funded the Fictitious D&BC to the tune of $150,000. I would like to invite you to sit on the Board of Directors for the BB D&BC, a newly formed corps, with the hope that you will assist us in our fund-raising activities. We think a mere $50,000 would get us started. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Eleran, Director of BB D&BC
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Good! Someone needs to put Nevsky onto the field!
Apparently, 7th Regiment agrees with you. http://www.7thregiment.org/
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Peter and The Wolf?
Tons of options for Prokofiev. Just some possibilities:
- Alexander Nevsky Battle on the Ice for the revolution
- Lieutenant Kije Troika for the early farm days of hard work and harmony
- Symphonic Song for the descent into dark periods, including the end of Boxer
- Latter portions of the 5th Symphony's 4th movement for the partying pigs reveling with, and just like, the humans
I'm sure a Shostakovich program could also be good.
Or maybe they'll just play Old MacDonald.
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. Interested to see the music.
I'm guessing there will be some Prokofiev?
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- Son play$ club volleyball Sept-Feb. - he might give that up next year to spend more time with music (DCI OC, marching band, regular band, jazz ensemble, wants to start up a SoundSport group ...)
- Daughter #1 play$ academy soccer, club volleyball and catholic league basketball (will probably eliminate latter sport or two next year)
- Daughter #2 doe$ repertory ballet, pre-competitive club volleyball
Mom & Dad are wondering how to pay for retirement, but enjoying every minute of it.
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man you are right about youth sports.
and unfortunately, I'm paying both!
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$1400. may seem like alot, and for many it is but look at winter guard and some percussion programs.,some are that and alot more. I have a relative that spends way more than that for dance classes for their kids and is buying costumes every time they turn around.
And the youth sports world adds up to a lot more $$$ than DCI. I wasn't necessarily objection to that number, just pointing it out for comparison purposes with DCI Open Class corps' tour fees.
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It makes zero mention of a specific corps. Cadets2 is aimed at HS-aged students in the PA Lehigh Valley vicinity, or at least within commuting distance of it. A person cut from Cadets1 who lives in, say, Nebraska, would have a tough time with the weekly commute to Allentown, as the Cadets2 are not a summer-long touring corps that houses their members.
I know last year Cadets2 had a minimum age of 15, and now their website says its for players aged 16-25, so I think they've trending older than high school kids now. And they still cost $1,400 plus camp fees, even though they don't tour.
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It's important, IMO, to separate business staff from creative staff.
Many corps CEO's don't tour with their corps.
I agree - but when you asked Stu about whether there was more productivity he could get out of his staff, to whom were you referring? I'm actually curious, because I'm not as knowledgeable about how World Class corps are staffed (on the business side) - are the business staff professionals in that field or volunteers pitching in? How many are there usually, and what are their duties?
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I actually think having one person whose main job is fundraising is important. When you simply ask the other members of staff to add it to their main duties, you will always get the "we've always done it this way" mentality, because (a) that's not their expertise to begin with, and (b) their mental focus will be on their main duty, and they will not have the available mental energy to explore creative and new avenues.
The tax-exempt world is full of people who specialize in revenue generation, and tapping that experience, rather than asking the rest of the staff (probably musicians?) to also figure out the revenue problem, is probably a good idea for any corp.
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This leads me to a corollary question I have: Do top corps look at auditions purely as recruitment efforts, or as money makers?
Because if kids (especially younger players) are encouraged to come to a top corps audition then get there and realize that they have no chance in hell of being taken, that will leave an even more sour taste in their mouths as they begin to think that they were only encouraged to go in order to give the corps their dough.
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I agree - I don't think there are nearly enough options for the younger players (high school kids) to march with a reasonably local corps (because 13-17 year olds usually don't have cars to drive themselves to weekend camps a state or two away).
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I think the difference is that conceptually, the logic was that the NFL entity, under 501©(6), was a trade organization to assist and support the individual for-profit teams, much like a non-profit local chamber of commerce exists to support the local for-profit businesses. The NFL, just like the chamber of commerce, was not making profits and distributing them to the teams. The actual profits should go directly to the individual teams, which are for-profit, and taxed accordingly. Of course, it appears that the actual internal machinations within the NFL and its teams have probably abused that conception so badly that they should all go to jail ...
DCI, on the other hand, isn't acting as a trade-association helping for-profit businesses under 501©(6), but is itself a 501©(3) organization, spending money on its own educational programs, or donating to other tax-exempt educational organizations (i.e. - its member corps, which are also 501©(3)).
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(P.S. -- The use of the name "Fictitious" for your Corps still sucks. Royally.
Motion to rename the corps the Dusters.
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Just make sure that if you DO communicate with him, you share all his personal statements with the rest of us .... he HATES that!
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