GUARDLING Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 .....What corps have just put together a show with great music and NO theme? Just wondering why there has to be a THEME! Anyone? Many descriptions of " THEME" I don't think there has to be a theme but the days of just random music without some kind of connection may be gone if that's what you are saying. Even BITD there were many with a thread which ran through ones show connecting the dots for many if not most IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tesmusic Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Well, from the very article you quote: "As 'just a performance,' the show is a sterling example of a successful non-thematic production in an era when it seemed that shows were expected to have a thematic tie-in." True, but Mr. Boo also wrote, "The Cadets, who ultimately tied for second place and won the percussion caption with “Juxtaperformance,” presented a theme that was based on no theme at all." Which means that there was, in theory, a theme. Just that the performance was the theme. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumScorps Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Which means that there was, in theory, a theme. Just that the performance was the theme. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perc2100 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 (edited) Well, from the very article you quote: "As 'just a performance,' the show is a sterling example of a successful non-thematic production in an era when it seemed that shows were expected to have a thematic tie-in." The theme = "we don't have a theme." That's a theme. See, we can ALL enjoy the goofy semantic arguments on the inter webs! Edited March 5, 2015 by perc2100 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perc2100 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Maybe the closest we could almost maybe sort of agree on is Madison 2010? No show name, no story, no thematic elements (except "throwback to old Madison" maybe is implied, but not necessarily explicit?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Man, I wish Brutus was reading this topic. He'd go nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumManTx Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 BD's 2007 always strikes me as the show from the last 15 years that is the least like the other winner. No doubt it's the least 'brought up' winner post-2000, either as a positive or a negative. is that because it is very low on the theme scale? the other post-2000 championship shows have had concepts that really permeated throughout, whereas BD 2007 was just an elegant show performed very well. I really like it, I think it has a theme, a VERY loose theme (of the Avian variety in my eyes). But of the championship shows of late, a relatively relaxed and loose one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
31rabbit Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 (edited) I really like it, I think it has a theme, a VERY loose theme (of the Avian variety in my eyes). But of the championship shows of late, a relatively relaxed and loose one. oh yeah, i have no criticism of the show. it was interesting that it was one of the few recent shows not being regularly brought up in the 'championships i didn't like' thread (that and PR 08 were the ones that were spared, I believe), yet I also rarely hear it championed. watching it out of context, I'd probably guess it was an early 90s show. Edited March 5, 2015 by 31rabbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowtown Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 (edited) I thought BD 07 was the history of the corps broken into dark into light theme with some sort of birth thing? Colts 1992, did they have a theme? Edited March 5, 2015 by cowtown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Don-O Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 2003 Cadets "Our Favorite Things" Fanfare and Allegro Malaguena Rocky Point Holiday No theme other than "old stuff we liked and wanted to put back on the field" By the way, this is my personal favorite performance of Malaguena (if you haven't heard this version check it out) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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