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Well, when you imagine yourself to be G. Royer just because your first name also begins with G...

hasn't seemed to hurt the number of their entries at all.

For the gringoes among us, here's a sombrero...

Might be!!! Depends where you are stuck on the New Joisey Turnpike.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasbrouck_Heights,_New_Jersey http://www.hhsd.k12.nj.us/

Correct, Brian. Mike's will start to do push-ups once his lumbago* departs. *Side effect of being a non-snare member back in those experimental years of the late '60s and '70's. Back strain also was the trophy of many a 'percussionist" back then.

That was later.

Is that for the view or the company??? :-p

Yeh, or should I say, Yea...... ...yes, it was a training program and only C1 involvement seemed to be instructing. Lauren and her Mom basically took over the Hasbrook Heights H.S. program it seems and got George to sponsor. It really should be Cadets 44 or something. But they had their best show at Dayton with one show back at home still to go. Best of luck.

This photo from their early days shows a unique design of the horizontal "stripes." Early Boston Crusaders, now returning to the Hyde Park neighborhood.

Yup, all drum corps linked units outscored The Cadets.

No wonder the counting of Crown's 12 EotB was so mixed! :-)

http://www.onu.edu/node/65137

re: ADAMAS Guard by Kunnateeruttaramwitthayakom School ( Bangkok, Thailand) 76.330 Pity Brandt Crocker and the other show announcers in the activity. And you thought Polish names were tough to say!!! Not quite the same punch as "Phhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhantom Regiment' or "Saaaaanta Clara Vannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnguard!" in my best B,C, imitation. Good luck to all.

Rain on the forecast for Dayton's Winter Guards too. Not just a drummer's hassle.

or one color bleeding out under the other on top of it, killing the surprise and the classic trim fit of the Cadet uniform. The blue was different but fine. The mustard, particularly with the center horizontal stripe of a different material which came across in the box as a different color, was ugly which it was meant to be given the matter of the Depression and horrors of WWII. However, against the rest of the usual Cadet uniform it was distracting, not helpful. I found the last cummerbund particularly ineffective, too pastel, too blah compared to the dynamism expected for the closer, the finale, the big push. Compared to the bright sunshine yellow of the traditional Cadet cummerbund, it was too much like a under ripe banana, without verve. When the banners, and Oprah, failed to rouse the crowd, the banana split didn't engage them either. As Jay Kennedy said on his GE tape once during last season and criticizing the banner of the Capital instead of it being the White House since the show was about Presidents, not Congress, nice attempt but... Looking at the clothing designs of those designers Hopkins usually consults on fabric matters and even the way they clothe themselves in public, I fear whenever I hear Hopkins says he's tinkering with the classic uniform. It's more like social deconstructionism rather than creativity adding to beauty. In other words, novelty for novelty's sake with some supplier making money at the expense of the kids..

here lies both the problem and the challenge. Drum corps is a competitive activity that is more and more limiting the involvement of non-matriculated musicians and students of other interests who just happen to play a musical instrument. As the shows become more technically proficient and demanding the part-time musician is limited by technical expertise (and sometimes native ability.) Current judging of the activity includes the general effect caption which has an aspect of audience engagement and response as well as proficiency, emotion, and nuances. Music with which the audience is unfamiliar takes longer to elicit a strong response during these short weeks of the season. What is technically appealing to the musician and faculty sometimes is not appealing in the same way to the audience and paying ticket holders. Against the duel between design and performance is a third side of the triangle the successful composer/arranger in drum corps is forced to consider and master.

Well given Out of this World, time doesn't exist as we know it and in Inferno, time is an eternity..........................

Ah, gee. These are my favorite genres and I remember when they were considered daring and on the edge for a corps to do them. Along came Mr. Royer and Santa Clara mastered them while Cavies played Lizt's Les Preludes. I would like to see our design teams come up with different pieces from these genres...even if the present MMs weren't alive the last time their corps or any corps played them.

I pm-ed you.

Alas, young Jedi, you are far too young to be getting so rigidly serious. :-)

Among the many color guards competing this weekend at Dayton are units representing Oregon Crusaders, Cadets, and Santa Clara Vanguard. Good luck to them and to the many DCI performers competing under other banners.

That's the beauty with genius and such a rich tradition...so much overflowing goodness, creativity and great folks with their talents to continue the legacies. Unfortunately, not many hold such a rich history (Cavies, Madison, Boston, etc.) as time and economies have whittled great organizations and circumstances have chiseled many people. How the newer corps build those traditions and futures is all part of what makes this activity great, I am sure you will agree.. P.S. This is neat news which sounds quite timely, http://www.carolinacrown.org/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=568:crown-hall-of-fame&catid=88&Itemid=684

And yet, besides being the first show of the season, it will be most difficult to be impressive in LOS without the "massive" championship crowd the veteran performers of DCI (also ISSMA or BOA) are accustomed to entertaining. I am dreading the echo effect.

Maybe the mods are away on their annual cruise as it is the off-season. Haven't seen anyone "riled" up on this thread and less than a half dozen made comments about the photo; most have commented about the theatre attendance. Place where I had been going dropped all DCI showings as they only reached a high number of 22 and a mode of 12. Last time the low attendance was 7..we kidded that we actually were the judging panel for the early season. Since Indy rather than Akron is the show to be shown, this means the show will go on, rain or not, save lightning. Can't wait.

The Cadet-Crown connection goes well before that. One of the founders of Crown, or rather the committee which originally called itself the Charlotte drum corps committee,was a Garfield Cadet alum whose job transfer brought him and his family to Charlotte. There he met Kevin and Maureen Smith, committee spearheads. whose job transfers had brought them from St. James, Long Island, New York. Tom was also from Long Island and marched Garfield in the early sixties. Jim Coates, current Crown CEO, was first employed as an assistant director of the Cadets and then director of Crossmen (part of YEA) before the corps moved to Texas and Jim moved to Carolina to take over Crown.