PR Conductors

[fsubone]

Conductors. Is that like calling your staff "faculty", and the members "students"?

Or like calling the leader of an ensemble a conductor....? You know, since it's the leader of an ensemble. SCV calls their DMs conductors too, just a personal choice by the staff members and corps leadership.

[scouttimp]

Yes, but...

My DM (Mr. Dan Feeny, esq) was much more than the "conductor" of the Madison Scouts- he was the marching member #1- liason between the staff and the corps.

When someone needed encouraging, he was the one. When someone needed berating, still FanDeeny. The one making sure everything was clean before we left a school? DM. The one to eat peanut butter because the taco salad was gone? Yet again, DM. Not a job I would want, but I'm happy to say that I played for one of the greats (as well as all the legendary drum majors in the Madison Alumni Corps).

I think that is what the OP is asking- is the DM of today just responsible for conducting, or is it still the job that us dinos remember?

[lindap]

I was a DM for 1 corps 1972-1975 (inclusive) and co-DM for another corps 1977-1979 (inclusive). I conducted with my hands. A baton would have been cool! Conducting at a performance is about 50% of the role. The other 50% is how you 'gel' your drum corps be it leadership, experience, passion or love of music. There's alot more to that 50%. The fun is the journey ;-)

[general_tsos_chicken2]

to me the term 'conductor' seems to imply more responsibility than 'drum major'

but really they are just different words for the same thing.

[soccerguy315]

to me the term 'conductor' seems to imply more responsibility than 'drum major'

but really they are just different words for the same thing.

interesting. To me 'drum major' implies more responsibility. heh

[Plankton]

Or like calling the leader of an ensemble a conductor....? You know, since it's the leader of an ensemble. SCV calls their DMs conductors too, just a personal choice by the staff members FACULTY and corps leadershipEDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS .

Fixed.

[corpsreps]

I find that incredibly interesting and commendable at the same time. It's rare to see a member of a 2nd place corps leave for last years 9th place corps.

How about a member of the first place corps leaving to join the previous year's 15th place corps? See Madison Scouts 2010 DM John Lee, who was one of the assistant drum majors at BD in 2009.

[cowtown]

Due to further expansion of the pit, er um, front ensemble the DM’s (conductors) will all be replaced by the new model Dr Beat, complete with audio animatronic arms that flail to the time

[84BDsop]

I find that incredibly interesting and commendable at the same time. It's rare to see a member of a 2nd place corps leave for last years 9th place corps.

Happened back in the 80s...a guy who WON with Garfield went back to his old, tiny corps (Garden State Circuit, I think) to age out.

And some people HAVE been "encouraged" to not return to a top corps.

[fsubone]

Fixed.

It was actually right the first time, thank you. Not quite sure where you heard those terms, but I've never heard them in my time marching. We called the staff the staff, and we did have administrators, but we also had corps leadership, you know corps director, tour managers, stuff like that. We never mixed the terms.