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Sholeo

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  1. Last year, the hole was the trumpet soloist who had a boot on his foot. This year, the hole is the French horn soloist who has a boot on his foot. However, it looked to me from the San Antonio stream like that hole was filled, so we should be good.
  2. I really hope Jeff Brooks is not the finals judge. Crown went from beating Bluecoats twice in a row in percussion and beating Blue Devils in percussion achievement... Just to get eighth in achievement under Mandarins. While I am sure such a young line may have off nights, such a drastic drop is more of a sign that there is a huge bias in how Brooks likes his books. I am wondering if the more aleatoric and legato passages are to blame.
  3. https://dci.org/news/carolina-crown-dazzles-in-2023-muncie-debut Apparently, last night was their first run since CrownLIVE.
  4. That is not true at all. I've already asked around with my sources. Klesch has arranged everything, with Martin only contributing to the new stuff in the fourth movement.
  5. Matt Harloff was there last night. He just let another conduct, from what I heard.
  6. Brass seemed more dynamic than last year (at least from the Instagram video). I thought last year they had two volumes: loud and louder. This year there seems to be some actual shaping. Compare the ballads from this year to last. This one has tons more exposure and dynamic contrast than last. Aside from the amazing trumpet solo, Benedictus was just a big hit that stayed big. This has a big hit, but then backs off to let the high brass and front ensemble shine. I think the added dimension and exposure pushes this show to something more like 2012 or 2015. Less ramming of notes, and more of a symphonic sound. Which one is seen as harder depends on what the brass judge values, but both are challenging in different ways. I also thought the percussion had a lot of windows of features. The second movement for snares and the fourth movement for basses, for example. But you are right that there is not a dedicated percussion movement like last year. (Although, that may be a good thing.) Visually, it seems more spread across the field and has a better use of props than Crown has had in a while. But there seems to be a lot of choreography to clean, which I think is where Crown has struggled. Those are my preliminary thoughts from the video. Obviously, in person, it may be different.
  7. No, prop crew members are their own thing. Also, Kevin Shah posted a percussion chunk: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtCuxO8ApBa/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
  8. From what I know, Jim Ancona (and I think the sound designer, Andrew Monteiro) were the only percussion folks not fired. A friend of a friend that marched this past year said that Ancona emailed the percussion members saying that due to Crown's (pretty #### poor) handling of the staff change, he'd be going to Boston since he was fed up with how Crown had been treating its percussion staff. He then offered expedited auditions for Crown vets that wanted to go to Boston which is why there are like six or seven Crown percussion members now there (including a center snare and center marimba). Boston didn't poach ####. Ancona went there because he'd rather work with friends and not have his fellow staff be treated disrespectfully.
  9. The corps ran through the Opener for their show this weekend. I think Mike Jackson is taking after Thom Hannum really well with writing for Crown. The beginning with the front ensemble and battery was very Broken City-esque, but when the actual hornline came in, it was a hit-the-####-drum, sexy metric modulation, big front ensemble impacts that Crown is known for. (I think there's six bass drums as well). Any worries that the new percussion team wouldn't match Klesch and Crown's style can be dispelled, although it will still be different in some areas (but so was last year). The brass worked on Part 2, as well.
  10. Dan Schack posted on his Instagram that the entire percussion team for Crown, both design and instructional, was fired.
  11. Dude, Crown has so many freakin' holes in percussion alone. Tonight it was a bass drum, vibraphone, tenor, and snare. That's obviously not 100%.
  12. Yikes! Lots of members out in both the brass and battery. (Seemed like the bass drum features had to be edited because of that.) Hope that they'll be back in soon!
  13. The new version is a lot harder, actually. The old version was just some split up sixteenths across the sections (except for first trumpets whom literally only had dotted half notes). The new version is a lot choppier, with extended runs, more room for actual shaping, and higher range demand.
  14. That's because the new stuff wasn't in that run. The next night, they played it with the changes. There's a new brass feature in Toccata Andromeda to look out for, among other things.
  15. Did anybody go to April Camp and is willing to tell us their thoughts? I also saw that they switched to Evans heads...
  16. The Guardians and Louisiana Stars pages have been deleted as well. (Guardians) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=122765754 (Louisiana Stars) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=122765751
  17. Recently, Wikipedia admins Drmies, Acroterion, and Chestford have been flagging many drum corps articles for supposed breaches of Wikipedia guideline's, claiming that they are not notable enough. Wikipedia is a very valuable resource for many drum corps fans, summarizing the history of individual corps, and assisting fans in finding show summaries. What I'm not asking you to do is attack these administrators, but to clean up these pages and add much needed secondary sources. (Deletion of show summaries and placements) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blue_Devils_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps&oldid=1049289803 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Santa_Clara_Vanguard_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps&oldid=1039222747 (Open Nominations) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Glassmen_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Troopers_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Blue_Knights_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Colts_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Music_City_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Velvet_Knights_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Pacific_Crest_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Royal_Crusaders_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Sacramento_Freelancers_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps (Closed nominations) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Crossmen_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Jersey_Surf_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Columbians_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps
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