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That was essentially what Phantom did last year having no title. It got no end of commentary and speculation about what the show was about.

Tin's conclusion for Turandot was fantastic in performance. I enjoyed the heck out of seeing and hearing that.

The 'no one is doing it' might also have something to do with the curse of LoS on wireless mics in the first place. With the number of times mics in DCI and BOA shows going haywire due to what channel to be on and the next group working their system the potential disaster of a corps trained to use this sort of tech perfectly to the point they're relying on it to do more complicated cross field listening and coordination of the ensemble suddenly having an transmission/reception "dead spot" in a section of the field would be...tragically exposing.

Delaware was pretty well attended the first year. Last year was fairly sparse.

[Genesis 2023 enters the chat]

I'm like "Is this Eurovision?"

In addition to the 'creating is work' argument, my understanding of how copyright laws work is "if you don't defend it, you effectively don't have it." So, say they don't defend their rights to the license for the olympics because 'hey millions of people world wide will be hearing my name associated with my creative composition!' Then some corporation hocks it for a project and makes a ton of money using it. You sue the corporation and the court determination is ... "tough luck kid, you didn't defend your copyright before that." So SOME form of licensing needs to be there so artists can control the decision, and ideally the fee, for their work in different situations, but where lawyers are involved, fees go up.

Ah. Boo. I like USNA fine but UDel was a great location for watching corps. UDel was the back up location when USNA had some conflicting event one year, I was surprised to see them both on the schedule in the first place. That'll make the show in Annapolis all the more of a draw though.

Except that year BK miced a snare soloist to do some pretty cool crunchy effects with the sound.

Aye. I remember this from music theory class. Bach's use of counterpoint to create polyphony came into jazz strongly. Them cats knew their stuff.

Hasn't the Avon/Crown pipeline always sort of been there? Harloff and all. When Crown is at Muncie, the line around the corner at the Crown souvie tent is a lot of Avon kids.

Oh... That makes me wonder if BK is planning an "America at 250" show of some sort?

Yea. This one was to hit the NC/VA coast hard. DC is to miss out on the snow (we don't need any on top of the snocrete we have.) but get massive windchills starting overnight.

Open Class's Golden Empire has the opportunity right...there.

Oh Bloo is another great example of pit/battery integration. Bloopit has been astounding of late. I think they sometimes get overlooked, as does Bloo guard, because they make it look so effortless and everything gets SO integrated sometimes, there's no single 'standout' moment where its any one single section prevalent in the music or the visual of the show. That's one of the amazing things about Bloo's design and instructional teams is they really get the WHOLE corps functioning as a single unit.