crowncontra

Awesome. Jeff Bridges is the program coordinator. He was great in True Grit and Tron!

Has anyone ever approached DCI about putting each year's DCI CD's/Recordings onto iTunes and charging not only per album but to where people could purchase just a single corps show? For those in the know, does Apple/iTunes charge a certain percentage of the income that DCI would make to advertise/market their CDs? I was just doing some shopping on iTunes and was just wondering to see if this had ever been thought of or brought to DCI's attention.

By only a day.

No one will. The Fan Network Award is the new award. I think it will be down to Cadets, Cavaliers and Bluecoats.

Actually Cavaliers have an 91.85

You also have to remember that this is typically the weekend of San Antonio, which is usually where 90 is broken. If it happens it won't be too far off from what is usually happening at this time of the year.

Yes. They still do. It is usually given out the night before or the night that the corps leaves spring training for their first stop of tour. The bead and the member shirt are given out on the same night.

You also have to remember that the spread between Troopers/Academy (the only reason I group these 2 together is because they have both won a head-to-head show) and Blue Knights right now is pretty close to what the spread was between Troopers and Academy at the beginning of the year and Troopers ended up closing the gap. Obviously anything can happen but small spreads (1-1.5 points) can be closed especially this early.

You should buy the Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony recording off of iTunes. Hands down one of the best recordings I own.

I think that it depends on if they are a senior in high school that is going to be a freshman at the school or if he has been there for a couple of years. Some universities have different marching styles/techniques that are different than what high schools do and as an incoming freshman I could see the importance placed on the student for needing to be there. However, if they are a junior or even sophomore for that matter and know the drill and know the way things work then I don't see a problem with them missing. Where I went to school, if you were a music major you were allowed to miss any days of band camp/leadership camp due to drum corps (typically it was just 1 or 2 days). For those who weren't music majors it was as easy as being an adult and talking with the director. I think some college (and high school) directors get a 'sour taste' of drum corps because of the way kids approach the directors about it and have an immediate negative attitude when they are initially told "NO" or "You will lose drum major, leadership position, scholarship, etc." by the director. Finding a solution on both ends is easily do-able just as long as the student is willing to work with the director(s). As far as the scholarship is concerned, it seems like a solution of being in another concert ensemble or helping out with rehearsal set up or some other band-related activity could suffice enough to make up the week or weeks that they missed for drum corps.

Tim Snyder marched Star and recently worked with Crown on their brass staff and is also the head of Box 5 Productions.

Hollywood Theater 16 Norman, OK

The community college next door, which someone mentioned, has a huge parking lot so I could see Cirque using that parking lot for their show and parking and then using the Berry Center lot for the DCI show. Also they could use half of the parking lot for parking of Cirque and then half for the DCI show. I am sure they will work it out. They typically do.

Leon May---Crown

The Southwest Tour sounds interesting. I wonder if DCI SA will be less attended since the people in both of those areas will get to see everyone prior to the regional. Also, noticed that there is no more TOP 8 Murfreesboro but a 2 day midweek regional leading up to Atlanta.