Big Bad Bari Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Well sadly we do have the same problem as Cadillac, Lincoln-Mercury and the tobacco companies. We find it hard to replace the customers we loose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyroo Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Anyone wanting to hear what a drum corps performance sounds like to an audience of non-drum corps people need only listen to a copy of Telarc Records' recording of PDQ Bach's "Music for a Whole Lot of Winds and Percussion." I happened to listen to it the other day and parts of it are exactly like some of today's drum corps shows - a professional tour de force, but incomprehensible to "Joe the Popcorn Eater." You all know "Joe," the guy who buys tickets to our shows for himself and his family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Haring Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Anyone wanting to hear what a drum corps performance sounds like to an audience of non-drum corps people need only listen to a copy of Telarc Records' recording of PDQ Bach's "Music for a Whole Lot of Winds and Percussion."I happened to listen to it the other day and parts of it are exactly like some of today's drum corps shows - a professional tour de force, but incomprehensible to "Joe the Popcorn Eater." You all know "Joe," the guy who buys tickets to our shows for himself and his family. That PDQ Bach recording, and others from Peter Schickele, is awesome. Peter is quite an accomplished composer in his own right...... but through his PDQ Bach alter ego, he does a wonderful job, IMO, of poking fun at himself and the rest of the "music elite" world. Great stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyroo Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 That PDQ Bach recording, and others from Peter Schickele, is awesome. Peter is quite an accomplished composer in his own right...... but through his PDQ Bach alter ego, he does a wonderful job, IMO, of poking fun at himself and the rest of the "music elite" world. Great stuff. Probably one of his best CD's is the Telarc recording of "The 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults." The blatant humor of the "1712 Overture" is so obvious. However, the one I referred to earlier has less "slapstick" humor and "appears" to be more serious, hence its reminding me of a present-day drum corps show - musically valid, but with little entertainment value to me, part of the "great unwashed mass." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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