BD_Fan

On The Transmigration of Souls? It was dedicated to the victims of 9/11, I don't think a drum corps could really do that piece justice. It's incredibly haunting and powerful.

Phantom will get 7th place

Adolf Herseth

The opening ceremonies was great, and interesting. You know, drum corps and marching bands can't even get 120 people or whatever to make straight lines, the Chinese did it perfectly with THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

So corps are allowed to just act like ###### bags and break rank? Sorry, but if you break rank you should get a baritone bell in the nose. Just sayin

Ahem Slonimskey's Earbox is a very good piece

A lot of vets from Boston left after 2007. A lot of people didn't like the former director A lot of people DID like him and didn't want to march in a corps that didn't have him (whipped) And some others were just odd.

I'm actually not biased at all, I know several people in the organization.

How quaint

Oh, funny story. That's not true.

That is a secret that will stay a secret until the end of time. I will say, thought that I marched a few years in a top 12 corps at some point between 1972 and 2008. Why does this matter, just curious?

Fixed

Everyone is a victim of the system, if you can't see that then I'm sorry. I actually understand fully what he was saying, my reading skills are superior to most but it's cute that you tried to insult me. STAY ON TARGET!!

I hope not

Thanks I appreciate the compliment, but I don't attend an Ivy League...........yet

Bach wasn't truly seen for his genius until after he died. Different things resonate with different people. "What resonates" is relative, sir. Just as many people like George Crumb as there are people who like drum corps. This sort of mass commercialization of the arts is a disease of the capitalist system, created by a government which does not want its people to think, does not want its people to grow, and most certainly does not want its people to dissent. This is the mentality which you are a victim of my friend, and I am sorry for it. Very good point, my man

And you know, funny enough, people like Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton were VERY successful despite their steps away from conventional poetry (as far as subject matter was concerned). In fact, these wonderful ladies are highly revered.

Maybe we need better educated people. I know that's a lot to ask for in this country :-\

I'm pretty sure Elton and Bernie create whatever they want. You see, the audience is tailored to the music, not the other way around. If I write a symphony, and it becomes really popular and a lot of orchestras play it, is it because I created something with the cookie cutter idea of "what people like" or is it because I just HAPPENED to create something that HAPPENED to resonate someone. Mind you, there is a difference.

Umm okay? It works for..........everything else. Who are you to want to stop __________ from creating __________. It isn't causing physical harm to people. No one ever died from hearing a song they didn't like. No one ever died from creating something that someone else happened to not like. Honestly, this little thing we call music is bigger than you, it's bigger than me. It is, itself, almost a deity. I really don't understand, honestly. If you want that badly to hear Malaguena again, just pop that DVD in. By the way, your picture, your shoulders look really high and tense :-\

Who is "the audience" I'm a libertarian man, let people do what they want. If someone doesn't like it, who cares? Seriously.

What does that even mean!?!??! That doesn't make any sense!! It's just marching band people. It really isn't hard to just.....take in and swill it around your brain for a little bit. What, do people here hear something that isn't a major chord sonority and devolve into mindless primates? I really don't get it folks, I really don't :(

What's wrong with ignoring the audience. If you think you can create something better then do it. These people are creating what they want, and if people happen to like it more power to them. Do you honestly think, when Elton John sat down to write "Bennie and the Jets" he was thinking, "Oh man I'm gonna write this and people are going to like!" Hell no, he didn't know! He was just......expressing himself!!! He was putting himself on the line, and then when he first played it, people may or may not have liked it. When Beethoven wrote his Pastorale symphony (no.6) do you really think he was going, "I'M GOING TO APPEAL TO MY AUDIENCE!" What does "appeal to the audience" even mean, the audience is a diverse beast. I'm the audience aren't I? What about people in the audience that are dumb as a rock but still love stuff being done by the Cavaliers. I don't get it man, when people talk about "audience appeal" on this board, they usually only mean one thing "faster louder higher", and that doesn't appeal to anyway, so I guess "faster louder higher" technically isn't audience appealing now is it? Different people like different stuff, jack.

Nothing has to be explained, just watch. If people need to have a drum corps show explained to them I really question their intelligence. Also, what's wrong with the announcer thing the way it is now? Especially with what Boston and some other corps are doing, I think it's really cool. Is it pretentious because you didn't think of it?