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From what I understand the transition to "Caption Supervisor" last year was to make it a bit more hands off position for Crotts anyway. The horn line was really run by Mark Nichols (the Caption Manager) day to day. According to people close to the corps Crotts was around a little in the beginning of the season and a few days at the end, but not really running much of anything. Fortunately for SCV it seems like Mark and the core team of brass staffers are still on board for 2020 along with some new additions. The other strange thing about all of this is how active TrumetCam (aka Chip Crotts) has been on this thread talking about himself in third person and how SCV music will be taking a step back without him being there....

Alaska seems to be quite an interesting stopping point on the way to Texas!

Vespertine Formations is a piece for marimba quartet by Christopher Deane. Mr. Deane is on the percussion faculty at UNT and the piece was premiered there in 2003. It is the stuff in the very beginning of Regiments show played by the pit, then it comes back in later on. From the liner notes: The inspiration for Vespertine Formations was the chance observation of flock maneuvers performed by a huge number of birds over the UNT campus on an October evening in 2001. The wings motions of so many birds suggested the texture of constant sixteenth notes....