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who constitutes a critic/expert v. regular audience would be quite a thread...

Oh this is sorta neat! I've never seen this format so it's new to me. Sort of the "rotten tomatoes" of drumcorps heh.

Wait. You're saying if I skip out on having birthday parties I can stay young forever? Hot dog! I'm in.

Neat! I imagine they'll go with a current season (perhaps forthcoming season?) membership and alumni combo given that the Rose Parade tends to favor big big marching units. That'd make it a special marker for the anniversary year too since they did an alumni show with finals for the 50th.

The sax last year actually communicated the theme somewhat too being 'uninvited' and ultimately integrated into a variation on a gathering.

Ah, here's the BD Jr. https://www.bluedevils.org/programs/bdjr/

There was literally an announcement about the changes to BDB becoming a national touring open class corps, BDC becoming 14-17 California only tour, and the littles moving to a BD Jr. I can't pull up the full announcement but you'll see BDC is now clearly listed at 14-17. https://www.bluedevils.org/programs/c-corps/

Y'all remember that time we learned WAY too much about perc2100?

I think the the 18 up for BDB is largely due to its new focus as 'corps that will tour outside of the region' Whereas the new BDC is 'local circuit only' BD Jr (I think is the name) is the wee ones corps now. BDA may not have a formal cut age on paper because of the occasional Olander situation, they'd not want to lose him at 16 or 17 with talent like that simply because we were telling you you were too young. For the new BDB, a talent like Olander isn't likely going to choose that level anyway and is looking for a full World Class corps.

Oh. Maybe they're doing Ink2: Clara's little sister

BOA finalist got it worked in last fall. Even became their drum major salute at retreat. They managed to make it fairly hilariously whimsical and didn't over play it. I suspect by this summer it'll be fully played out and seem like trying too hard. Cavies Propaganda did a pretty good job getting the internet's frantic presence captured.

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.