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http://www.colts.org/news/news.cfm?news_id=834 Show announcement is in.

http://www.colts.org/news/news.cfm?news_id=834 The show announcement from the Colts is in.

Most of the rest of harmonium is more ethereal and less driving. Wild Nights seems to work best for the field. http://youtu.be/VamFzv523u0 Here's a link to the full piece. Definitely worth the half hour listen.

I assure you, at least where I come from, people don't get in this drum corps business to "not push as hard" as the top corps

Sorry, that was rude of me. I always saw it as a reference to Shostakovich's music and his defiance towards the Stalin.

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We should define "Theme" right off. As far as an underlying musical and/or visual idea which holds the show together, there hasn't been a drum corps show without a theme since the 70s. I don't think shows need "stories" by any means, but even shows like Harmonic Journey have coherency between the movements. If we're talking about "theme" by a strict definition of shared qualities between the pieces or a plot of some kind, these shows seem to be a minority. I personally tend to think of "theme" as the former.

They're a killer group. They generally sit middle of the pack most years. Last year's show was John Cage's 4'33 and The Sound of Silence by S&G. I like them. It's really too bad half the crowd leaves in the middle of their shows to get hot dogs.

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I abstain as I have a preference between the two, but to commit to it would force me to vote against 95 Madison, an act that I am simply not able to do.

Who was booing at bd 12-14? Those shows were magnificent!

Ahead of their time? Absolutely! Innovative? Of course. Influential? I think that's an interesting term people try to apply to star 93 when they want to dismiss it as modern and intellectual. No one has to this day even attempted to design a show "like" star 93. The entire show was a single coherent stream of a single musical idea (or journey if you prefer). I don't think they even got near forte until about 6 or 7 minutes in, yet there is such build and such intensity in that harmonically rich and rhythmically thick first half. I could count the number of shows that have even played snippets of that type of music on my right hand, and I have yet to see anyone tackle the art of drum corps in that way since. I grant, Star was absolutely influential insofar as their staff and the musicians who learned under them, and definitely visually, but I would argue star's 93 show was not particularly influential in the direction of modern design as a whole. The show stands on it's own merit as *opinion time* probably the most dramatic and musical experience set to the field. And on the most basic level, it continues to excite me and physically draw me to my feet in a way that few other shows still can. After all, isn't that why we continue to go back?

Can you elaborate regarding "creation from negative space"?

If I wasn't investing all my income into drum corps, I would put good money down for such a venture.

Finally, a context where this video is applicable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RLDtpXr6XQ