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    A Great Article on The Cadets

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    10 minutes ago, BigW said:

    There was an article linked here a couple of years ago from the Casper, WY newspaper about what a big deal it was that a local person made it into the Troopers. Case in point.

    I watched the Cavaliers Lisle show on Flo and they showed the ageout ceremony.  There was one from Aurora and one from Champaign.  That was it and there were a lot of ageouts. 

    Source music you discovered from DCI shows

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    2 hours ago, Lance said:

    gigantic list.  dci is what really got me into instrumental/classical music as a young teen.  I played in the band and enjoyed it and all, but after getting exposed to the following pieces and composers with dci, I became the kid listening to classical on my walkman/discman (yes, i'm old) while all my friends were listening to Nirvana and Kriss Kross.  

    91 Star: All of the Respighi stuff.  This got me to backtrack and watch some older corps,, including Cadets 87.  Ended up going to the library and checking out cassettes of both The Pines of Rome and Appalachian Spring. Ended up wearing out the entirely of both cassettes and my love for classical was born.  

    92/93 Cadets: The Holsinger stuff they used really got me into wind ensemble music for the first time, and I started to really embrace 6:30 AM rehearsals with my band and understand the stuff by John Barnes Chance, De Meij, Gillis, Nelson, etc that we were playing is really really really good.  The only way to get recordings of wind ensemble stuff back in the early 90s was my school's music library where out band director would put all of his sample CD's from publishing houses.  I "borrowed" them for a couple years.  😉

    93 Star:  I had heard Adagio for Strings by Barber, but this opened me to all of his other stuff.  Same with Bartok.  

    The fall of 93 is when I started playing for the first time in our local regional symphony and the first pieces I performed at a concert were Mahler 1 and we had a guest soloist do Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, so that was more.

    dci truly was really the catalyst for all of it for me though.   

    My middle school concert band played The Pines of the Appian Way so I was slightly familiar with the Pines of Rome. 

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    Carolina Crown 2024

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    8 hours ago, nsxanax said:

     

    AM

    Working my way down a backlog of official DCI audio that I never got a chance to listen to - 2019 Crown is probably the best music book of the entire year.  Funny enough, it's also probably one of the most "old school" in structure too.  That closer is amazing.
     

    Of course.

    The detail of the pattern is movement😉


    I liked it. 

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    Source music you discovered from DCI shows

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    12 minutes ago, HockeyDad said:

    Last week, The Man Who Knew Too Much was on TCM I think. There’s a scene where they’re driving past a marquee that says something like London Philharmonic with guest conductor Bernard Herrmann. And then, they show the symphony and there he is conducting!  That plus the music to the movie was by Herrmann. I explained to my wife and got about the same reaction as I get when I offer to take her to a drum corps show….🙄

    My favorite Hermann score is “Vertigo”. His favorite, believe it or not, was “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”. The movie, not that silly tv show. 

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    Shows that surprised you and glad you saw live

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    13 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said:

     

    I marched at the tail end of that era; from our 50-member Corps we had/have 2 college professors, several military officers, an Alaska crab fisherman, several government employees, engineers, a spy, a Catholic priest (no one saw that coming), multiple financial and tech industry professionals, several business owners, 2 band directors and probably more that I don’t know of.   And we can trace it to the ethos taught in Drum Corps.   All from one little Corps.  

    Mr. Warren would recruit guard members from the juvenile detention home.  I heard that story from an old Cavalier I marched with in the RA reunion corps.  He said that young lives were turned around.  He rescued them and gave them purpose.   Sie Lurye and many others did the same thing. 

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    Shows you regret NOT seeing "Live"?

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    15 minutes ago, IllianaLancerContra said:

    As you know, these shows can be very creative & entertaining.  It takes a special kind of talent & attitude to throw it down when you don’t have 110 more members backing you up.  
     

    I just wish they had packed stands for Open Class finals.  

    I could have a card game with the amount of spectators in the stands Thursday morning. On the upside, It’s the only time I don’t have to evict anyone from my seat.

    The most people I saw in attendance for Div 2/3 now open class was when finals were in Madison.  But you had a lot of relatively local corps in the shows. Cap Sound, Americanos, Blue stars were Div 2.  Plus a lot more corps in those divisions.

    i have seats in 240 for the all-age championship. It will be interesting to see the support level for that event, especially with a free Soundsport event is being held down the street. 

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    Shows you regret NOT seeing "Live"?

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    2 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said:

    Not going to Open Class?   As a small Corps alumni, if I were going to DCI, I would make a point of to Open Class. But I know that few agree with my position 

    I’ll see them on Thursday morning.  I’m going to an open class show in Cincinnati, too.  Plus, most of shows I’m going to have all-age and open class.   Trust me, after spending five years watching Div 2/3 almost exclusively, i support open class. 

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    Shows you regret NOT seeing "Live"?

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    11 hours ago, Vuitton said:

    It's not domes for me, it's Indianapolis. I realize from a logistical perspective it makes it easier to have it in one place, but I miss the days were it travelled. 

    1. So many more people were exposed to the activity, and 

    2. It was fun seeing different parts of the country.

    No offense, Indianapolis, you're a lovely city but I don't ever have the need to visit you again. A few times was enough.

    I chopped a day off of our stay.  We’re coming in Thursday morning instead of Wednesday.  It’s only 1 1/2 hours from Cincinnati.  No reason to be there Wednesday night. 

    Shows you regret NOT seeing "Live"?

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    5 hours ago, ironlips said:

    I wish I had witnessed Anaheim in '72 at the first DCI Championships in Whitewater.

    Saw the movie, but it would have been far more satisfying to have been in the stands when Ralph Hardimon and Tom Float were anchoring the snare section and Steve Beard was wailing that bari solo in "Artistry".

    I did see them. I was in the first 29th place DCI corps ever! 

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    Ticket Prices

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    2 hours ago, waliman4444 said:

    Realistically, I don't expect prices for drum corps to go down...Nor do I begrudge the promoters their fair share and the fans who support them...What I'd like to see is the corps getting serious money from an online service like FLO if the viewership numbers reflect a significant increase in DCI interest such that their profits from the broadcasts warrant a larger percentage for drum corps..I don't know if drum corps receives any money from FLO..I just assume that to be the case..That's all..PEACE

     

    I think most professional sports franchises make more money from television contracts than gate.  Maybe college, too. 

    Ticket Prices

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    55 minutes ago, OldSnareDrummer said:

    I know I'm out of touch, but you could offer to pay *me* $75 to name any tune done by any of those bands and I'd be stumped. 

    A woman in the office asked me to name a single Taylor Swift song. I couldn't do it.  She was also shocked to learn I've never seen a full episode of Friends in my entire life. 

    I listen to classic rock in the car.  I can tell you any Steely Dan song in five notes or less.   

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    Ticket Prices

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    12 hours ago, IllianaLancerContra said:

    I, for one, have expanded since my marching days.  

    Mine still fit before I did the great purge. I still weigh the same so i imagine it would still fit. I’ve went up and down in weight five or ten pounds for several years but I weigh about the same as when I marched.  
    Jim had a VK jacket from when he was helping them out in the 80’s and it was so small because he was in the Marine Corps.  Definitely wouldn’t have fit him now. 😂 

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