njthundrrd
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If the 2008 Blue Stars are anything like 2007, they will be a sound to behold. Go Blue Stars!
I think you will be more than happy with the outcome of the extra horns. I'm sure people that come to our show and tell on Sunday afternoons can attest to that.
Anyone in the Indy area is more than welcome to come to the Indiana State Fairgrounds about 2pm on camp Sundays to see our weekend "show and tell" performance. You might even get a tidbit from the upcoming 2008 show, if you come on the 1/20. We rehearse in the 4-H buildings (behind the track and away from the Pepsi Center. Just find the equip truck).
Camp Date are... (flyer found here) http://www.bluestars.org/graphics/08poster_lg2.jpg
Friends, Family and Alum of the Blue Stars are encouraged to attend. We also have had some Star of Indiana and Star United members attend. Sundays are becoming a bit of a reunion day at camps, for many different reasons.
FCO!
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did I mention the hornline is going to be much bigger? AND LOUDER?
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You forgot to tell them that you still look exactly like your avatar! = )
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Don't tell anyone, but our horn line is getting bigger....sshhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
The college bowl season is almost over and we welcome any fall band student (high school or college) that has either auditioned at another corps or was obligated to the Holiday Bowl Season to come and experience the Blue Stars.
www.bluestars.org
For camp information, travel, airport pick-ups, camp needs, fees, and the ongoing audition process.
Our auditions are an ongoing process to allow prospective members the opportunity to learn our system in more than a "one and done" weekend. Come and learn from some of the finest instructors in our activity and take part in the start of another great Blue Stars program. All of your meals are also provided at camp. There is no need to leave the fairgrounds during the weekend for meals.
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a new york state of ... (bump)
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Amazing stuff Sara!
Thank you for sharing.
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I marched with David, "Primo", and will keep him in my thoughts and prayers all through today. I saw him last at DCI in Pasadena. Great Guy! LOVES drum corps.
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Hey! Why wait until Summer to support the Blue Stars?
You can support the Blue Stars now by shopping at http://www.bluestars.org/store/list.php?category_id=14
There are plenty of great buys from the 2007 "Power & Grace" season...
OR..
Want to check out the history of the corps?
Take a look at this product.
http://www.bluestars.org/store/view.php?st..._category_id=15
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Prays, thoughts, and support to both young ladies, their families and the Colts family as a whole.
From the Blue Stars family.
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How about Marc trying to tear down the pitchers mound in columbus?
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Great poster to download for your band rooms and/or college dorms!
Upcoming camp dates and ongoing auditions.
http://www.bluestars.org/graphics/08poster_lg2.jpg
More info at www.bluestars.org
Are you "True Blue?"
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Garfield's general technique from what I remember at that time and for years after was to roll the toe up and push off the heel.
This (above) was the slow tempo technique. Platform or releve was for quicker tempos. If you watch 1984 in Maria, we went from platform to toe/heel roll in the rallentando.
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It was 1982 and I had a hard time getting to the first few sets in Rocky Point Holiday (I was on the very end and got whipped around the field a lot in that opener) and George Zingali from the top of the scaffolding says, "Eric Sabach, what do you have to do to make your sets?" and I replied, "Zingy, if I could do it all on my platform, I could make it..." and Zingali screams, "Platform? WTF is a Platform?" So I said, "If I could stay on my platform, my tippy toes, and not put my heels down, I could make it." Zingali screams, "NO!" So we go back to the last few euphoniums not making the sets. After about three more reps and George talking to Marc, he yells, "Everybody backing up, get on your platforms!" and then Marc clearly defined the technique.
Big John... oops.. John J. Miliauskas, http://www.towson.edu/bands/MB/staffInfo.asp reminded me of the story after about 20 years when we caught up at DCI in Allentown and said he tells that story at his marching band clinics. I laughed.
Were we the first? I don't know. Who does?
As for Star, Sara was right. In 1985, most of the corps was band kids and we had a hard enough time showing them where the practice field and buses were. In 1986, we really started to define the marching technique.
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A great Skyliner... A greater man.:::: prays:::::::
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Pioneer Drum and Bugle Corps and Color Guard from Milwaukee, Wisconsin would like to thank Phantom Regiment for the use of their King Bb/F instruments otr last week's camp. As it turned, our order of brand new instruments could not be quite filled in time by King for the camp. The use of Phantom's equipment made the camp quite successful, and we on the brass staff especially appreciate your kindness.
Thanks again!
Donny Allen
Pioneer Brass Caption Head.
Donny,
You are welcome! Welcome to the Kings of the Field family.
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I am sure members and alumni would appreciate if the definition of SUTA was not discussed in a public forum. Thanks.
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Well, then learn how to spell my name right!!!! I've only known ya since 1985!
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It's true, we are so totally on the same page most of the time. I still have to hook you up with my friend Daria too.
Yes, SARA (my niece is Sarah)... I'd fight you, but would not want to get thrown out of the club that you have allowed Key and I into. = )
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Hmmmmm. I'm thinking more of the bondage of woman. And I know just the chick in the Renegades that can pull that off!
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Sarah, I love you because we think so much alike!
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Fire it up Sky!
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Tell you the truth....
Think about this one.... Renegades do Spartacus with a little S&M... uhhh errr. I mean S&D (Samson and Delilah)... the black tunics... the bondage of man... the baccannale... I see it done in a very Rudnicki style (the Stanley Kubrick of modern all age corps). = )
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Uh the topic is what DCA corps could pull off a Spartacus.
Who do you think?
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hip hop.....hip hop.
An All Jay-Z show... I AM.. Hip Hop!
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Phantom Regiment CLASSICS (Vol. 1 CD)
1. 1974 – Symphony No. 5, Dmitri Shostakovich
2. 1974 – Night on Bald Mountain, Modest Mussorgsky
3. 1975 – Tannhauser (Pilgrims Chorus), Richard Wagner
4. 1976 – Rollerball (Tocatta & Fugue in D minor), J.S. Bach
5. 1976 – An American in Paris, George Gershwin
6. 1977 – Russian Dressing (Piano Concerto No. 2), Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
7. 1977 – I Pagliacci, Ruggiero Leoncavallo
8. 1978 – Stravinsky Suite (Firebird, Petroushka & Scherzo a la Russe), Igor Stravinsky
9. 1978 – Flight of the Bumblebee, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
10. 1978 – Symphony No 9, Ludwig Von Beethoven
11. 1979 – Grieg Suite (Peer Gynt, Piano Concert in A minor), Edvard Grieg
12. 1979 – Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral (Lohengrin), Richard Wagner
13. 1982 – Spartacus, Aram Khachaturian
14. 1983 – 1812 Overture, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
15. 1987 – Swan Lake/Nutcracker, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
16. 1988 – Romeo & Juliet (Act III), Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
17. 1989 – Symphony No. 9 (From the New World), Antonin Dvorak
Phantom Regiment CLASSICS (Vol. 2 CD)
1. 1975 – American Overture, Joseph Willcox Jenkins
2. 1976 – Symphony No. 7 / Symphony No. 6, Gustav Mahler / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
3. 1980 – Entire show
• Russian Easter Overture, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Romany Life, Victor Herbert
• Polovetsian Dances, Alexander Borodin
• Carmen Suite, Georges Bizet
4. 1981 – Spartacus (entire show), Aram Khachaturian
5. 1983 – Serenade for Strings/Cossack Dance/Dance Neopolitan, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
6. 1985 – March to the Scaffold, Hector Berlioz
7. 1986 – Carnival Overture, Antonin Dvorak
8. 1991 – Nessun Dorma, Giacomo Puccini
9. 1991 – Bacchanalle, Camille Saint-Saens
10. 1992 – War & Peace Intro / Le Marseillaise, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
11. 1993 – Entire show
• Estancia, Alberto Ginastera
• Fire of Eternal Glory, Dmitri Shostakovich
• Death Hunt, Bernard Herrmann
12. 1993 – Amazing Grace, Traditional
13. 1994 – Claire de Lune, Claude Debussy
HEY TUBAS?
in DCI World Class Corps Discussions
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The Blue Stars have a few remaining spots in our tuba line. Email corps director Eric Sabach at eric@bluestars.org and I will answer any and all questions.
Now for you guys that are not tuba players and came in here? Maybe you can send an email to a tuba player, band director, low brass player, or just another drum corps fan and send them my information.