KVG_DC
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Necro +1
Needed to ressurect this thread as for some reason the YouTube algorithm fed me this gem.
Those kids seemed to have a great experience all year. The bit in the tunnel with them singing along with Bloo and Boston was 100% a "welcome to the upper tier" moment.
RIP that euph at about two minutes in though. 🤣
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We had a pack of incredibly young looking Midshipmen from Naval Academy on our campus for a tour today. They were all up in uniforms looking somewhere between a recruiting poster and goggle eyed kids looking around at all the Deaf people.
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4 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said:
The bands that choose to participate would need to develop one.
I recall in 1980s there was a summer marching band circuit run by BOA(?).
MBA (at the time) had a Summer Grand Nationals that finished every year at .. Whitewater!
But... it died FAST as the expense of doing both summer and fall field shows + kids not wanting to do both seasons + summer school resources being axed hard by school boards, particularly for the arts pretty much made summer band become a combination of parades and learning basics before taking up your show learning at camp.
My nationally competitive ISSMA band at the time never even entertained the notion of doing a Summer field show. It stretched our resources enough to do the Fall ISSMA circuit and invitationals + a 'big trip' every 3 or 4 years (either Grand Nats, which was not yet always at Indy, or a Bowl parade.)
My sister did Grand Nationals in Jacksonville, TN her freshman year in 1981, then the Orange Bowl parade her senior year. I got one trip, the Rose Bowl Parade. We were able to do MBA regional and Grand Nats as well only because they'd moved in state. Getting logistics permission to take the school busses out of state was...complex as we learned from the Band Director.And this was in the heyday of funded school marching arts and a robust parents group raising money. That band got crushed not long after when the school corporation 'refocused learning goals' and support for summer arts and arts in general were allocated to another school in the district and even then at a meager rate. The band parents org kept supplemental funding going but after a time, the money moved to other areas of the city and yeah it just devolved fast.
I don't know that many programs have the resources to do a summer program and those that do are competitive in their fall seasons and value that probably much more...so...they're not gonna split resources for a new summer ensemble most likely.
Dec - end of May were 100% when jazz band and concert band as well and solo and ensemble were going on. As well as support for swing choir and school musicals. Pulling enough kids to learn a summer show to put on the road...again, not likely.-
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1 hour ago, TOC said:
Looking for an organization, but within the Indy 500 group, BD can have the number one position on the starting grid. For now.
Is BDE still a thing? Would that count? There was a European circuit for age hike too? Are they still around?
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I didn't know I needed a Couchmen Two-peat T-shirt until today.
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3 hours ago, Richard Lesher said:
DCI is the “Indy Car 500” of the performing arts activity.
WGI is the “NASCAR” of the performing arts activity.
1 hour ago, TOC said:Then, who is the F1 of the performing arts actvity?
The Blue Devils? [dons my nomex suit]-
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Grants and such that have now ended as revenue sources. If they didn't prepare for the end of these revenue sources and look at what would replace them...it's a jarring end. There's a fair few small colleges facing this sort of cliff right now too given that the grants and such were a godsend to their budgets...but now that they're done, if they didn't prepare, they're boned hard.
This is the year higher ed is feeling some crunches from lower enrollment and the end of some revenue streams of the past few years as well. So it's not entirely shocking corps are as well. -
1 minute ago, Jeff Ream said:
WE ARE! (Wet).
the missus wanted to do alumni Blue Band for homecoming. It’s my payback for making her stay at DCA prelims in 06 during that monsoon
She plays a long game of cold revenge.
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I'm still stuck on the visuals.
I mean, they have a drill book road map in reutilizing Phantom's Into the Light. Enter from one tunnel, move the corps across the field through the show, and exit the other tunnel!I should stop, but I can't. Maybe there's something I could take for that?
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1 minute ago, fighterkit said:
It’s just the pressure of deciding if I want the corps to wear pink or brown.
Too many choicesWhy not both! Show theme could be the biological processes of using Pepto Bismol. Maybe P&G would sponsor the uniform costs!
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After last week, it sorta makes one nervous they haven't.
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2 minutes ago, keystone3ply said:
I liked @KVG_DC comment about Surf 2024! 😂
Which was also tongue in cheek to some degree. But frankly I'm a big fan of what Surf does from keeping it at a scale that's doable during the summer with some great instructional efforts based on what I saw in the lot at Annapolis to things like their mobile music lab going out into the neighborhoods to bring music education into areas in new ways where the schools have long axed such things. People dog them for being small and non-competitive and snark out with "demote them to Open Class" and such. But... they're still here and they're still doing their thing and doing it well.
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51 minutes ago, keystone3ply said:
So I guess all of the potential 2024 Cadets are going to the Mandarins? Too soon? Sorry...
Q: Do the corps' CEOs or EDs have any kind of business background? Or do they just operate with their 'heart' with their drum corps background? I just don't understand...
Nah. Surf gonna come out totally ratchet this year!
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We're at the nexus of "quad players and low brass players" once again.
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2 hours ago, craiga said:
I'm so old that I remember that easel in the end zone in Allentown where there would post the scores on cardboard strips one at a time all day during prelims. Guess those judges had to commit to their numbers.
Ostensibly that commit to the numbers was the reason for having prelims then finals.
Particularly when prelims spread over two days (as it does for band comps still). Prelims was less about absolute placement and more about “getting the right 12” for finals where a more granulated head to head approach with a single panel could happen.
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7 hours ago, Weaklefthand4ever said:
Alas so do I....lol. That commercial is still better than the entire 8 episodes of Clash of the Corps. The only reason the euph (I think it was a euph...) player got to snag the kids chicken is because they didn't have quads back then. The quads always get in the most trouble..
There's a significant crossover between low brass and quads players in that way.
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37 minutes ago, keystone3ply said:
Brand promotion = The Guardsmen made me want to run out for some "finger lickin' good" fried chicken.
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https://www.oddballfilms.com/clip/13160_13368_kentucky_fried_chicken
I...remember that commercial.
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Reading this 7 years later and my brain is all "still the best names in the game"
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40 minutes ago, Jeff Ream said:
not a lot of bands in the Northeast that big
Yah. This was an Indiana ISSMA annual state contender in my day and when we did do Grand Nats, we were finalists. Although that might be a quality + massive number of band parents who travel well = Finals slot in those days...heh
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Lulz. we marched at least 3 if not 4 if I recall. But then we were like a 250+ sized band.
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I'm loving the auto translate mangles. "No matter how strong the trumpets beak is..."
However, he's killing me with literally pausing every two seconds to go on about something.
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Mandarins 2023
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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Down the comments someone asked and the response it's Brahms Symphony 1