Darth_Vader Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Does anyone have any insight into the little storyline going on in the guard during Letter From Home? It seems pretty random and I'm not sure how it fits the overall theme of the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekneek Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 There was a theme to that show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigCPApi Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 (edited) http://www.dci.org/media/downloads/view.cf...42-43e5d4a07ab8 Anyone else notice the conspicuously ABSENT 6th place show? And I know it has nothing to do with Hop or black helicopters. Is this a music licensing thing, because I haven't noticed any other shows having this problem. Quick research... Fast Machine is in 01 SCV, and you can download that... Letter from Home is in 98 Xmen, and they're available... PFR is in 02 Cascades, and they're available. Weird. Edited July 21, 2007 by bigCPApi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekneek Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 http://www.dci.org/media/downloads/view.cf...42-43e5d4a07ab8Anyone else notice the conspicuously ABSENT 6th place show? And I know it has nothing to do with Hop or black helicopters. Is this a music licensing thing, because I haven't noticed any other shows having this problem. Coincidence that it was the lowest placing show during Hopkins' tenure as Director? Hmmm.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Vader Posted July 22, 2007 Author Share Posted July 22, 2007 OK guys. Thanks for staying on topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfrontz Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Coincidence that it was the lowest placing show during Hopkins' tenure as Director? Hmmm.... Um, yes it is a coincidence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfrontz Posted July 23, 2007 Share Posted July 23, 2007 Does anyone have any insight into the little storyline going on in the guard during Letter From Home? It seems pretty random and I'm not sure how it fits the overall theme of the show. The "theme" of the show was "The ABCs of Modern American Music." A - John Adams (Short Ride in a Fast Machine - opener) B - Leonard Bernstein (Prelude, Fugue and Riffs - closer) C - Aaron Copland (Letter from Home - ballad) Really Cadets 1991 can best be viewed as an experimental show across the board. Both "Short Ride" and "Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs" were pretty out there musically, as the Adams piece had no discernible melody and Bernstein's is full of dissonance. The guard used some unique equipment. The Copland piece, I think, is one of the first attempts for a DCI guard to tell a story using dance (correct me if I'm wrong). Although I'm not too familiar with 1989, they may have done this kind of thing then, and it continued to evolve during "Somewhere" in the 1990 championship show. Co-ed color guards were just becoming the order of the day, allowing the men and women to play "parts" dancing opposite each other in unison or separately. As I recall, it's a pretty simple boy meets girl, they fall in love, they must part type of thing. This kind of use of the co-ed guard was best represented in the 1990s by Blue Devils (96-98, two championship corps) and The Cadets (94-95 especially.) The value of 1991 is that it allowed Cadets to try some new things which would lead to a second place finish in 1992 and a championship in 1993. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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