GUARDLING Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Madison just needs to decide who they want to be not 1 foot in the past and 1 in the present. I think in the past few years Mason and the Madison staff tried to hard to please to many. Madison Be who YOU want to be. If that means full force into the future , so be it. If it means back steppin. You decide. I guess who makes these decisions next will have to answer those questions for THEMSLEVES Best of Luck Madison Scouts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajlemm Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Wouldn't it be interesting to see Madison go a COMPLETELY different direction, ala phantom Regiment 2005? Or is that a bad idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swmstom Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I still think Scouts can be both modern and traditional. The show designs need to catch up, but without narration, wild costumes for the corps that change every year, bizzare story-telling that you have to have a PhD in philosophy to understand. You can have a modern, competitive show without all the weird artsy fartsy stuff that others are doing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigW Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 The program could have been fine with more thought and with the arrangements constructed as less fragmented and jumping from one incomplete musical idea and selection jarring to the other. I saw a lot of griping on FB about the fact the choices weren't ones the Scouts had already done with Ellis and Kenton (Boo hoo hoo, no Strawberry Soup and Malaga or Malaguena, boo hoo hoo...), and I firmly believe that was not the issue. Maybe the problem was trying to put seven pieces of music into the bag and give it a sense of completeness and logical construction from a musical sense.... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMadMan Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 The program could have been fine with more thought and with the arrangements constructed as less fragmented and jumping from one incomplete musical idea and selection jarring to the other. I saw a lot of griping on FB about the fact the choices weren't ones the Scouts had already done with Ellis and Kenton (Boo hoo hoo, no Strawberry Soup and Malaga or Malaguena, boo hoo hoo...), and I firmly believe that was not the issue. Maybe the problem was trying to put seven pieces of music into the bag and give it a sense of completeness and logical construction from a musical sense.... Your last sentence sounds about right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigW Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Your last sentence sounds about right. I hope so! Music is a language, and if I only spoke or wrote in sentence fragments and go from one idea to the next in fragments only, you'd have trouble understanding me and also get pretty frustrated and irritated. When people do this musically, it leaves them unsettled. The one thing the Coats did this year was that they took relatively unknown music but created ideas that went from one point to the next and made sense and felt complete and satisfying. No coincidence people gravitated to it and liked it, the electronics didn't turn folks off except for the most strident of the groaners. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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