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  1. From Star's website:

    "After a public performance in 1992, the group's leadership decided it wanted to do more than entertain the public with a 10-minute drum corps routine. After completing the 1993 competitive season, Star left the field of drum and bugle corps competition and changed its focus to develop a new concept in brass and percussion performance. By using the powerful instrumental music and precise choreography of a drum corps to reinterpret everything from Broadway and popular movie musicals to classical music compositions, Star of Indiana created a new kind of stage show that appeals to audiences of all ages.

    The result was a highly successful ten-city tour in the summer of 1994 featuring Star of Indiana with The Canadian Brass, the world's best-known brass quintet. Named "Brass Theater," this tour-de-force of musical virtuosity took audiences and critics by storm."

  2. How are regular people supposed to know and recognize that?

    It seems very weird to me, that's all.

    It's a fun inside joke that anyone who has had any involvement with the Cadets over the past three years will enjoy. Keep in mind that All-Access is directed chiefly at parents of marching members and people who personally interact with the corps.

  3. I took a serving of GNC's Wheybolic Extreme 60 every day last summer and it worked great. In the off season, I've been adding L-Glutamine powder to the protein shakes and that's been fantastic, so I'll keep that up over tour as well. L-Glutamine helps with protein synthesis and boosts your immune system. GNC will have everything you're looking for.

  4. Wasn't the Eastern Classic at the University of Pennsylvania while J Birney Crum was being renovated? As much as I love the field and recognize the time honored tradition of DCI East in Allentown, I think a new location should be considered since the top rows of seats are permanently condemned.

  5. Technically, the tick system was abandoned so that corps could be score based on achievement. I think that numbers management today is focused more on the difference between groups than their achievement on a score of 0-100. Take Semi-finals 2004, BD got a perfect score in brass, but that was a reflection of their superior brass performance to the Cavaliers rather than them being perfect.

  6. Amps...permits vocals (narration and singing) to be used in an appropriate manner...hence increasing the programming possibilities...thereby improving the listening experience of the fans...plus the added benefit of improving the sound of the pit, also enhancing the listening experience for the audience.

    Just to buffet this response, I think the best argument for amps is that members of the pit no longer have to exercise improper playing technique in order to get the volume necessary to be heard over the corps proper.

  7. What if those extra players mean more revenue from the extra tuition? Isn't that the reason they upped the limit to 150?

    'Cause that's the only one I wasn't arguing with.

    I believe the real motivation for raising the limit to 150 was to max out bus capacity. Most corps rent buses instead of owning them and 135 members left several blank seats, which I guess must have seemed like enough of an inefficiency that the member cap was raised.

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