What music would you love to see a drum corps do that hasn't been

[N.E. Brigand]

Okay, I'm copying from earlier in the thread, but I'd trade my soul for Phantom to either play Howard Shore's Lord of the Rings, or The Hobbit, if that danged Dwarf song is any indication.

You mean "Far over the misty mountains cold?"

It's pretty good. I am also quite fond of Maury Laws's

from the 1977 Rankin-Bass cartoon. (This link is actually to a later poem that uses the same melody, except for the bridge, which the poem from the first chapter lacks.)

[Noname]

This would be an AMAZING ballad of some sort. Listen to the underlying music in there, not just the melody. I could totally seeing a corps like the Bluecoats do that, seeing what they did in '11.

EDIT: You'll have to wait a minute to actually hear the underlying parts. Edited December 11, 2012 by Noname

[MikeD]

Why on EARTH has a corps like the Madison Scouts or Crossmen not brought Xavier Cugat's music to the field. Rhythmic, percussion and brass heavy screamers, he's got a bunch of works just begging for DCI treatment.

I'll choose the Xmen...don't think the Scouts guard would do justice to the guard costume.

[eric24]

I have three great shows:

1. Boy George and Culture Club "Karma Charmelon show" (the greatest band every)

2. The Village People " Macho Macho Man show" (the second greatest band every)

3. A Canniibal Corpse show, anything from greatest band of All-Times (death metal at it's best)

I believe Phanton Regiments or the Troopers would be the best corps to do these wonderful shows. Don't you just love drum corps.

[chaos001]

I could come up with a million. There are so many great works by lesser known composers and lesser known works by great composers that haven't even been sniffed by DCI. For starters...

YASUSHI AKUTAGAWA (heavily influenced by Stravinsky and Shostakovich)

-- Ellora Symphony

-- Music for Symphony Orchestra

-- Rapsodia for Orchestra

GRANVILLE BANTOCK

-- Thalaba the Destroyer

BELA BARTOK

-- Allegro Barbaro

-- Kossuth

-- Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm, No. 153 from "Mikrokosmos"

-- Romanian Dance

-- Buciumeana from "Romanian Folk Dances" (a different piece)

-- Transylvanian Dance No. 3

ARNOLD BAX

-- Overture to a Picaresque Comedy

-- Symphony No. 1, Movement III

NIKOLAI BUDASHKIN

-- Fantasy on Two Folk Songs

PAUL CRESTON

-- Interlude and Dance

-- Symphony No. 5, Movement I

-- Toccata

ANTONIN DVORAK

-- Slavonic Dance, Op. 46, No. 8 "Furiant"

-- Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 2 "Starodavny"

-- Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 7 "Srbske Kolo"

-- Symphonic Variations on an Original Theme

DAVID GILLINGHAM

-- Galactic Empires

ALBERTO GINASTERA

-- Overture to Fausto criollo

PHILIP GLASS

-- Symphonies Nos. 2, 5

JERRY GOLDSMITH

-- Soundtrack to "Congo"

CHARLES TOMLINSON GRIFFES (an American version of Debussy)

-- The Lake at Evening from "Three Tone Poems"

-- The White Peacock

JOHANN HALVORSEN

-- Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2

JACQUE IBERT

-- Bacchanale

KAMRAN INCE

-- Concerto for Orchestra, Turkish Instruments, and Voices

VASILY KALINNIKOV

-- Symphony No. 1

ARAM KHACHATURIAN

-- Waltz, Mazurka, and/or Galop from "Masquerade"

-- Symphony No. 2, Movement IV

ZOLTAN KODALY

-- Dances of Marosszék

-- Theatre Overture

GUSTAV MAHLER

-- Symphony No. 4

ARVO PART

-- Agnus Dei

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

-- The Bells

-- Russian Song No. 3: Belilitsy, rumyanitsy, vy moy

-- Symphony No. 1, Movement IV

MAURICE RAVEL

-- La Valse

-- Toccata from "Le Tombeau de Couperin"

OTTORINO RESPIGHI

-- The REST of Belkis, Queen of Sheba (Ottorino Respighi) (i.e., Solomon's Dream, Orgiastic Dance)

-- Dance of the Gnomes (Ottorino Respighi)

SILVESTRE REVUELTAS

-- Homenaje e Federico Garcia Lorca

-- La Coronela

YURI SHISHAKOV

-- The Living Room

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

-- Sentimental Romance (Ballet Suite No. 2)

-- Elegy from "The Human Comedy" (Ballet Suite No. 3)

-- The Execution of Stepan Razin (the first six minutes are IMMENSE; it's criminal this hasn't found its way to DCI yet)

-- The Fall of Berlin

-- Symphonies Nos. 4, 8, 11, 13, and 15

-- The Tale of a Priest and His Worker, Balda

ISOTARO SUGATA

-- Dancing Girl in the Desert

JOSEF SUK

-- In the Power of Phantoms from "Summer Tale"

JOAQUIN TURINA

-- Orgia from "Danzas Fantasticas"

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

-- Beat Beat Drums from "Dona nobis pacem"

GIUSEPPE VERDI

-- Prelude from "Attila"

-- Overture to "Les Vepres siciliennes"

RICHARD WAGNER

-- Polonia Overture

LEO WEINER

-- Prince Csongor and the Kobold

ARTHUR WILLS

-- The Vikings from "Fenland Suite"

...you know, just for starters.

Something on this list will be on the field this summer. I guarantee it.

[MikeN]

Ooooh - are there dots to be connected here, Chaos?

Mike

[fsubone]

I'd throw Karl Jenkins into the mix of composers whose work hasn't been done anywhere near enough. I know SCV did "The Eternal Knot" in 2011, but he did right a ton of good music. Maybe Pioneer could tackle the rest of the Eternal Knot? It's all about Ireland.

Also, there is a load of popular music that could be utilized well onto the field. I think Sara Bareilles could put some of her songs onto the field very well.

[chaos001]

Ooooh - are there dots to be connected here, Chaos?

Mike

More like a scavenger hunt. Enjoy the journey!

[kdaddy]

Yes! Thanks for the correction, I've removed it from the NeverDone page.

Both Moldau and Smetana are misspelled on the CorpsReps entry for Crown, which is probably why I missed it.

Actually, it wasn't the Moldau that Crown played in 2004, it was Sarka. The Moldau is still hanging out there, and it MUST be played.

[kdaddy]

More like a scavenger hunt. Enjoy the journey!

Wait, PR is playing the soundtrack from Congo?!? YES!