year1buick Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 proof a pit can be heard from the field without microphones Amen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris ncsu Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Please read the story by Trish Williams-Longo at the bottom of this collect of four stories. That's beautiful! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommytimp Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Two from the 80s stick out for me: 27's brilliant, monolithic, game-changing rendering of "Niner-Two" from 1981, and Spirit's epic production of "Blues In the Night" from 1983. Spirit played BITN better in 84, I think, but the massive scope of the number is what sticks out for me, the same with 27. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skajerk Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 While it wasn't a "success", I thought Phantom doing Symphonie Fantastique in '85 was a big risk. Still one of my favorite PR shows and one I wish they would revisit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeffeory Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 While it wasn't a "success", I thought Phantom doing Symphonie Fantastique in '85 was a big risk. Still one of my favorite PR shows and one I wish they would revisit. Great attempt. It wasn't their best scoring production, but it was a TOUGH, TOUGH musical book that I doubt any corps would take on today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris ncsu Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Great attempt. It wasn't their best scoring production, but it was a TOUGH, TOUGH musical book that I doubt any corps would take on today... That music book had balls. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibexpercussion Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 not only was the "front" ensemble broken up into pods and spread across the field... We did that with the group I work with 2 separate times, and talk about a timing nightmare. You are all the time teaching the kids in the pit to "listen back," and now they have to play on the front of the beat. This was done without the benefit of amplification as well. Worked well both times, but was a major headache logistically to start the season both times as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swine Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 (edited) While it wasn't a "success", I thought Phantom doing Symphonie Fantastique in '85 was a big risk. Still one of my favorite PR shows and one I wish they would revisit. Great attempt. It wasn't their best scoring production, but it was a TOUGH, TOUGH musical book that I doubt any corps would take on today... Meh. In 1985, we also had 7 minutes of "Jeremiah" which is the complete definition of "tough." Edited May 22, 2012 by Swine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeffeory Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Meh. In 1985, we also had 7 minutes of "Jeremiah" which is the complete definition of "tough." ...and we enjoyed that one too... It also "won" DCI. Jeremiah has been successfully performed a couple of times since then. A bit was performed by Garfield in 1990, and by another top 12 corps ( and many marching bands) since then, but not too many other corps have successfully bitten off Symphonie Fantastique. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bccadet09 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Although this is more recent (2010), Blue Devils putting City of Glass on the field was a huge risk musically. Has anyone heard the original versions? City of Glass Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53GTa7DurnU&feature=relmfu City of Glass Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz7UO5l-iAU&feature=plcp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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