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They didn’t. I stood in line sweating for about 1.5 hours (no kidding) with my wife for two hot dogs and two bottles of water. Thought I was likely to get arrested defending my wife who wasn’t having the line cutting by the kids. I was never so glad to get to my seats. After that, my blood pressure, view, and show were terrific.

Great show and venue. Went last year and only complaint was the concession situation. Blazing hot, hundreds of high school folks cutting line, and hours in line. Avoid the concession stands.

I assume their will be a day coming up when the show title , uniform/costume, music, etc. will be announced as in recent years. Anyone know when this year's program reveal will be?

Any news about any musical changes coming? The transition from the big company front push and soloist in the closer to the high tempo finish always seems too abrupt to me - hoping there might be finishing touches to come.

Despite all the discussion of what happened and why at Broken Arrow, are all the members now doing well? Is everyone recovered from whatever the heat/illness issue was?

Love the show this year. Cohesive and clean especially this early. Judges seem to like percussion less than other captions so far. When both content and achievement are lower than your competitors, what do you adjust first - changes to the book or just keep cleaning what you have? Both? I’ve always been curious about the process/philosophy for in season changes - pre-planned vs. response to judging.

I understand that PR doesn't want much info out about the show just yet, but are there any general impressions to be shared from those who saw the community performance last night? How much of the show (i.e., drill) were they ready to perform? How did the crowd respond? Etc.

How many 2022 age outs for PR going into 2023 season?

https://youtu.be/cMMGWSX7va8 This link is from the Corey Bands winning performance of “A Brussels Requiem”. Whole piece is great but from 14:30 to the end is fire. Could do a whole show around the theme of “Requiem” - lots of classic (Mozart) as well as very modern source music.

Henry7184, thanks for taking the time to give such a thorough reply by DM. I will watch and listen with these thoughts in mind. Thanks!

https://youtu.be/cMMGWSX7va8 2018 British Open Brass Band Championship winning performance. Corey Band. “A Brussels Requiem” Checkout from 14:30 to the end. Whoa Nellie!!!

Hemry7184, I have been a fan of the activity since 1977, but as a woodwind player never marched in a corps and so am even less qualified to judge - just know what I enjoy. Although I think with enough years of watching you can develop an eye and ear for what clean, excellent performance looks and sounds like. Based on your comments, what do you feel are the key elements of winning design? Why are only the few able to consistently achieve it? Is it that there are only a limited number of truly innovative design staff folks out there and the top five have them? Please share. Thanks.

Can anyone with connections to the staff share any info on what the judges are telling them? I know we all wanted them to be scoring better. Hoping there is no discouragement in the corps - they are working hard and the crowd really responds!

https://youtu.be/LaDHBY0-ghY This link is to “St. Magnus” by Yorkshire Building Society brass band at the 2004 European championship. Winning performance. Last section from 10:00 to the end would make a great closer. I can see this fitting PR or SCV style. Crown certainly has the chops to play it.

While the power is there, the tone quality sounds pretty brash on video - may be different in person. The sonority that say Crown or Boston have is different even though they certainly also have power. I heard some say that the PR staff is intentionally having them really blow now to build endurance. If so, maybe they’ll round out the tone and balance as they clean?