Staff merrigoround

[777hornman]

thats a good hire. the pit was the best percussion section the last few years, it should get better yet

Markworth leaves Crown For CROSSMEN . Writing Music ensemble.

Markworth was the Front Ensemble Arranger and Coordinator at Carolina Crown from 2007 – 2014.

[kdaddy]

Sound design at Regiment. Also works/worked with MCM.

I've heard great things about his abilities as a sound designer. This was obviously underutilized at Regiment (i.e., limited to witch cackles).

[84BDsop]

Just to add on to staff retention: they also have staff that feel that they are truly appreciated and have bought into the creative system. They're not commanded to produce one person's vision (unlike other places I can think of).

That goes all the way back to Jerry Seawright, who set the tone with this one belief -- hire the best people for the job and then let them DO their job.

[tesmusic]

That goes all the way back to Jerry Seawright, who set the tone with this one belief -- hire the best people for the job and then let them DO their job.

I appreciate when people point out individuals like Jerry Seawright, Bill Cook, etc.

It's really not a hard method to achieve greatness or success, and the model of hiring the best and letting them have the keys to the Cadillac in their respective roles is truly the greatest method.

[old skool drmmr]

Tony Nunez announced as Crowns pit arranger

This is a weird hire to me. From what I understand, the vast majority of his design background has been either writing for battery or doing sound design. Not front ensemble writing. He has done it, but his highest profile gigs have been either battery (Mandarins, Arcadia HS) or sound design (MCM, PR).

Perhaps he's actually primarily doing sound design, but the website lists him as the front ensemble arranger, which, since all the electronics are in the front ensemble, I guess is technically true.

[BRASSO]

Brasso,

If I have to, I'll type slowly for you:

I'm

not

angry.

If

I

was

,

you'd

know

it.

I'm tired of you positioning yourself on here as the savior of drum corps, always making accusations of collusion and good old boy networking etc as if you have all the answers and can cure drum corps.

if you think you can, get off your butt and prove it. you've had so many holes blown into so many theories on here over the years even Stu reads the rebuttals to your posts and says "####, they got him good there!"

You've unsuccessfully attempted to substitute your words to my words above, in an equally unsuceesful attempt to mischaracterize my comments above. That epic fail has apparently made you even angrier despite by request to help youself by dialing back the confrontational anger. Today, you provide no specfics at all as to where you believe I have misstated, or have said things that ( in your view ) are simply untrue, and gave us no examples of what I have said on this thread is out of line, or is untrue (in your view) and why. You simply engaged in a generalized dismissal of my observations, and use repeared profanity in your recent blatherings of unspecific, unidentifiable complaints you have. For the record, a simple unbiased read of the dialogue between us on this thread should have one conclude that I have not engaged in confrontational anger with you, nor challenged you to prove anything, nor have unfairly maligned your own observations on this thread, nor attempted to sabotage your comments into something you never said in the first place.

I suggest now that we end this back and forth personal vendetta of yours and that we return the thread to its orginal topic, as this is getting lamer and lamer by the minute from you.

[MikeD]

" The AARP people " at Concord have been friends with the" AARP people"" DCI judging community since before anyone had a computer and keyboard. They've known and personally hob nobbed with each other in traveling circles for half a century in some cases. That helps. What also helps the " AARP people " at Concord is that they have an unfettered, uncompensated feeder system thats unprecedented in any other competitive youth endeavor in the entire world, and which happily feeds itself on its willing competition with their willingness in turn to freely feed that venerable Blue Devils Beast with manpower as well. From the BD position, its the best competitive environment that one could possibly ever dream to have been created. I tip my hat to BD. They win because they are undeniably good, and because they have every duck in a row lined up for them in DCI and its coupled with an ungodly created feeder system that annually takes in their competition's best talent,( keeping them at bay forever), since U2's Bono came out of diapers.

BD does not "take" theri competition's best talent. Members quite properly march where they so choose and are able to pass the auditions.

[BRASSO]

BD does not "take" theri competition's best talent. Members quite properly march where they so choose and are able to pass the auditions.

Thats splitting hairs, imo. My use of the word " take " does not negate the fact that BD is well served each season( to their crediit ) by the annual talent pilgrimmage of some of the top talent from other Corps to Concord in an attempt to earn a spot. Yes, I do understand the process of auditions, MikeD. The word " take " from other Corps is not by itself a perjorative word, and my use of it should not be automatically construed as such. I suppose the word " receives " from other Corps might have worked too. But the fact that BD " gets " a significant pool of talent each and every season from their competition is the big picture here, and perhaps is what is being missed. This is a hellava good competition feeder system for BD, and I said as much above.

Edited September 11, 2014 by BRASSO

[mingusmonk]

2015 Blue Knights staff ... so far.

http://ascendperformingarts.org/programs/bkdbc/staff/

Design

∴ Jed Weeks – Program Coordination
∴ Kevin Shah – Arranger / Sound Design / Music Coordinator
∴ Jay Bocook – Brass Arranger
∴ Mike Jackson – Percussion Arranger
∴ Juan Caceres – Visual Design / Coordination
∴ Tommy Keenum – Costume/Flag Design
∴ Ralph Hardimon – Music Consultant

Brass

∴ Brad Toth – Caption Head
∴ Ronnie Pruitt – Assistant Caption Head
∴ Stephen Gulledge – Ensemble Specialist
∴ Scott Norman – Technique Specialist
∴ Bo Sodders – Ensemble Specialist
∴ Amanda Elizondo – High Brass
∴ Tony Ruiz – High Brass
∴ Daniel Brock – High Brass
∴ Chris Williams – High Brass
∴ Brad Parks – High Brass
∴ Joshua Munoz – Low Brass
∴ Dillon Sparks – Low Brass
∴ Flint Weed – Low Brass
∴ Zach Davis – Low Brass

Percussion

∴ Mike Jackson – Caption Head / Percussion Arranger
∴ Kevin Shah – Percussion Arranger / Music Coordinator
∴ Chris Cyr – Ensemble Specialist
∴ Rod Kosterman – Front Ensemble Instructor
∴ Angelo Outlaw – Front Ensemble Instructor
∴ Veronica Hidalgo – Battery Manager
∴ Nicole Casino – Snare Tech
∴ Richard Ramos – Snare Tech
∴ Joe Pfau – Tenor Tech
∴ Matt Gonzalez - Bass Tech

Color Guard

∴ Brandy DuBose – Caption Head
∴ Keith Casey – Co-Caption Head
∴ Randi Miles – Consultant
∴ Louis Hellinger – Consultant
∴ David Arvin – Consultant
∴ Jonathan Meader – Consultant
∴ Pepe Ochoa – Consultant
∴ Andy Mroczek – Consultant
∴ Juan Artavia – Tech
∴ Emalee Kengott – Tech
∴ Theresa Fox – Tech
∴ Brewster Petron – Tech
∴ Gabriel Beccerra – Tech

Visual

∴ Neil Adkison – Caption Head

[kdaddy]

Phantom Regiment does a pretty terrible job of staff announcements:

Jeremy Hunt, visual designer

Jude Boughton, visual coordinator

Rob Ferguson, front ensemble arranger

John Leonard, previously mentioned as guard caption head

The visual coordinator, visual designer, and front ensemble arranger were three spots that I DIDN'T want to be touched in the offseason...