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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.
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Wait. You're saying if I skip out on having birthday parties I can stay young forever?
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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.
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The sax last year actually communicated the theme somewhat too being 'uninvited' and ultimately integrated into a variation on a gathering.
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Ah, here's the BD Jr.
https://www.bluedevils.org/programs/bdjr/-
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9 hours ago, BG984 said:
I highly doubt that BDC will change format......they have had kids as young as 8 years old, and many between the ages of 10-15. Very, very few 16 or above. It serves their purpose well, and gives very young kids an experience. I would bet the farm that the number of 16+ kids who wish to be in BDC will be very, very few. IF BDB holds hard and fast to an 18+ thing (a first for them, and a first for Open Class, as far as I know)...they will lose their 15-18 age group....unless it is a loose guideline. BDB alums have ended up in many World Class Corps....in fact, someone told me that more BDB alumni have made other WC corps, including many finalists, than have eventually made BDA. Since it is a first for BDB, no news yet if they are turning away all under the age of 18....but if you post the 18+ thing on your website (for BDB), many 15-17 year-olds are going to look elsewhere, unless they think they have what it takes to make the A corps. I agree with your final statement. If recruiting for BDB is struggling 60 days from now, my guess is that guideline suddenly disappears. The only thing that makes sense to me is they may have a goal to inspire to field two World Class finalist corps. If they have the talent and bodies to do so, no problem. If I were them, I would change BDB's name, but still keep them under their umbrella.....juat to throw away the stigma of a "B" group............They are a smart organization, and will adjust accordingly.
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/-
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Y'all remember that time we learned WAY too much about perc2100?
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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
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4 hours ago, wolfgang said:
Can anyone think of examples of pop culture memes that found there way into corps shows when those memes were still somewhat relevant?
For example, I could see a corps incorporating the 6-7 thing kids are into this summer.
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.-
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6 hours ago, BG984 said:
I always wondered what DCI's reaction (especially WGI judges) would be if a corps came out and in the announcements it said one of these;
(1) Presenting their 2026 show, "A show about nothin'"
(2) Presenting their 2026 show, "Some Music That We Like, and Hope That You Do, Too"
It will never happen, but it sure would be fun if it did..................
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.
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Tin's conclusion for Turandot was fantastic in performance. I enjoyed the heck out of seeing and hearing that.
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4 hours ago, mingusmonk said:
It is not realistically attainable to manage 165 IEMs moving dynamically across a 57,000 square foot field for precise execution needs of all performers today. Want proof? Nobody is doing it. Not that the creative minds we have in audio engineering haven't considered all of this and beyond. Their evaluations of the benefits of attempting such feat have left them on the side of "not today."
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.
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3 hours ago, Sh0uldN0t said:
I suppose you can look at it that way. I prefer to look at it as DCI leaving money on the table and fans in the lurch.
Those late July shows in south Jersey or the Philly area have drawn large crowds even though they were a week or less before Allentown, which was geographically close. I was at the Glassboro show last year, and there weren't many empty seats. Two years ago, though a rain out, also was a huge draw despite the weather. And three years ago was an official sell out. Before Covid, the Chester show was always well attended by fans and top corps.
It's not as if there isn't an audience willing (waiting!) to buy tickets. Why not sell them?
Delaware was pretty well attended the first year. Last year was fairly sparse.
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[Genesis 2023 enters the chat]
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I'm like "Is this Eurovision?"
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3 hours ago, OldCorpsGuy said:
This is where most people filing copyright complaints are short sighted. They are using your music in the Olympics. They are going to post what the music is. What does “free advertising and exposure” mean to you?
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.
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2 hours ago, sanjoseDCfan said:
The 7/29 Newark DE show gone, those corps moved over to the Annapolis MD show on 7/28.
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.
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57 minutes ago, perc2100 said:
and I wonder how non-mic'ed brass players feel: like, if someone was say a third year age-out in the mello line but a few of your other colleagues were solo mic'ed up but not them. As a snare drummer I'd never have to worry about that
Except that year BK miced a snare soloist to do some pretty cool crunchy effects with the sound.
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1 hour ago, Brian Tuma said:
lol Bach was the first jazz cat. Coleman Hawkins and Bill Evan’s are just a couple of many jazz musicians who were inspired by Bach
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.
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39 minutes ago, ColaPanther said:
I noticed on social media today that a few Avon kids are marching with Crown this year, including the head drum major from 24-25. I believe he'll be marching tuba for Crown, but anyone feel free to correct me if I’m mistaken.
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.
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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.
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29 minutes ago, contraguard05 said:
I'm not saying it should or shouldn't happen, but the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack has been inescapable. I'm confident someone will put it on the field.
Open Class's Golden Empire has the opportunity right...there.
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