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    Cadets and bankruptcy

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    14 hours ago, kdaddy said:

    The first section of This I Believe is about personal choice, and the early season text was waaaay more self-religion heavy. I can only assume that is rooted in whatever GH heard in that Hershey Ramada Inn ballroom.

    I can only imagine he had a show scripted out and entitled…”His name is George, and this is what he said.”

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    A history of DCI judging and scoring, and the movement away from music emphasis

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    On 3/15/2024 at 4:57 PM, BG984 said:

    In 2015,  The  Cadets became the only corps to win brass and percussion at the DCI Championship prelims, and not only not win the show, but not finish in the top 3.  There have been years where the overall music winner did not win the title, but nowadays, you can win music and finish 4th.  Conversely, you can be 4th in music (and I won't be surprised if someday soon, 5th) but win the title.  Spreads given in GE/Visual/Guard will always prevail over scant edges given in music.  We have color guard judges judging overall "effect" who wouldn't know the difference between two musical products if it bit them.  Crown has had years where they won brass.....by a tenth........over groups that frankly could not shine their shoes in that caption.  Not to say others weren't decent in brass, but the clear superiority in every aspect of brass performance was not acknowledged score-wise.   I remember a day when people would wait with excitement at a regional (Allentown, for example) for the scores to be announced.  Nowadays, most are in their cars on their way before they are even announced, not just because of the quick availability of the internet, but because competitive excitement is gone.  All said, though....the only way there will be change is if it is proposed and approved by the drum corps themselves, and there has not been a stronger influence there than the visual community, an example being last year when some proposals that would have created more refined emphasis on music were soundly defeated.

    Cadets only won brass in ‘15.  BD won drums.  And they finished 4th because of He who shall not be named insisting on the change to black and Neon.  Absolutely killed visual effect from up top.  
     

    There were also major staging issues with those movable stages.  Couple extended segments of the show they were staged front and center with absolutely nothing going on with them…talk about a focus killer.  

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    Vanguard 2024

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    22 hours ago, saxfreq1128 said:

    Was just nostalgically watching Plymouth Canton HS’s amazing take on Harmonium from 2001 and I agree! Great piece, amazingly hard to field, would be so interesting to see modern SCV try their hand, even if it doesn’t really seem to be their style these days …

    Yes…from their glory days.  I taught for a competitor band back then and remember watching that show develop all season.  

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