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Bloo 2014 at Ft. Wayne. This was the show Tilt caught fire. They had us eating out of their hand. BD at that show too. They had a rough opener (for BD) but the ballad sucked the air out of your lungs with the silences and reentries. Bloo got within a point of BD at that show and it was as close as anyone got all season

Jersey Surf 2023. Seems like a fair few skip Surf at the Annapolis show cause they’re not a “big name.” I’d seen their show on Flo already and “oh fun”. But seeing just HOW MUCH fun they had performing that in their faces live was super neat.

That's a weird but awesome flex.

Kinetic Noise (2015) is another show that doesn't get enough mentions in retrospect for me. That, more than the 'pitch bend' of 2014 was where Bloo's team started really exploring what they could do with the sonic landscape that has become their signature. The pitch bend was a gimmick, but 2015 was when they were making a whole palette to paint from. What they did with Mr. Maps and the percussion is still so fun to listen to.

QR coded program stuff was done through banners and poster standing boards were on display at Annapolis if I recall. mostly down the hall as you went to your seats not in the souvie area. I remember being intrigued enough by how it was done to try some of the codes out and I suppose my eyes hit advertisements. That was a Cadets run show. I don't know know how much that actually generates but I found it cool as the old "paper books" would be costly to print for a single show and I'm not sure how much they'd guarantee sales anymore. But putting the stuff onto a digital format and hosting it on a domain a corps/host already runs would be doable. If done right they could also have corps buy in to place their social media and content within that 'program' too.

Woe to anyone who is in your seat when you return to it though!

I am...sort of surprised you took it this way as its entirely NOT my intent. I don't see those technical passages as 'throwaway garbage' when done right and concur that this would be a great way to have both the requisite technical show off sort of content but in a meaningful way that retains fidelity to the composition. In the same way Bloo found a way to both have a technical show off element and retain fidelity to Anna Meredith's Bump last year, this could create a real "musical moment of the summer." So...yeah, I'm still positive here and don't really understand where your guff is coming from. Some arrangers create throwaways, other find gems like this.

I still wig out and how deftly and creatively Thrower wove those songs together. The way Eleanor Rigby sort of just moves the show in another direction and when She's So Heavy drops...man. it was a good show.

oh hmm. That would lend itself to the whole 'articulation tonguing technical passage' that seen seems to be a compulsory element in arranging.

Oh it was visibly shaky when they got up on it. Particularly later in the season. It made me increasingly nervous through the season.

Oh that's 100% unsightly. I mean adding judges to the solicitation list, fine, but sending one with their pay?

Ooh. now I can't wait for those late nights on the East Coast to stay up and catch the Cali corps

Don’t forget to pack your bodhran in carry on to keep it safe

We better get some groovy tie dye shirts at the souvie stands for this

Anyone thinking this has been willfully keeping their head in a hole in the ground. This isn't like when The Academy struck gold. This has been planned and developed for growth. And yeah, if they can start tapping into some of that insane California percussion talent we see every year in WGI, then...woo.

Neat. He's a fantastic composer and can surely see not only 'these themes standout here in this show" and "these lines are capable of these things and can grow in these ways" to write something unique and effective. I can imagine the thrill of the MMs knowing "Mackey wrote this for US to challenge US to do it" and rise to the occasion. It could be a super special thing for Crown not just for the incorporation of a Mackey original work but HOW they do it in a way that invigorates the MMs.

Um. Ew. But also. Clever adaption!

If they're gonna go Hee Haw, go the full route.

D*mn your vague posting! 😀

I made it to the 1:32 mark. Yep, Hee Haw is as annoying as I remember.

The opera pieces are great. https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/resources-for-educators/classroom-resources/media-and-interactives/artists/still-william-grant/

"Talent" v "Teachable" has always been part of youth/college activities though. Right down to college sports. Do you pick the players who already have the skills that exhibit greatness or do you want players who can learn grow to achieve greatness? And it's often not an either/or choice.

Just a tad. Now if there was an unaired episode where Ginger lures the guys into the trees, then Mary Ann whacks them, and Mrs. Howell serves them up with a nice side of fava beans....

I always read it as a Circe show anyway. I mean the MMs getting lured and trapped on the island and all.