xandandl Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I'm not sure why you wanted to know this information...Please don't blame me if any of these BIO's are old/outdated or even incorrect... Michael Kelly of Monroe, New Jersey Mickey Kelly has dedicated more than 50 years of his life to drum corps activity, producing championship color guard and drill routines for several corps over a 10-year period. He handled drill design for World Open and NorthEast Circuit champion Shoreliners of Milford, Connecticut in 1977. He also designed the drill for Bengal Lancers of Trumbull, Connecticut when the corps won five state championships in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, he produced championship guards three times each for Hawthorne Caballeros and Connecticut Hurricanes. Over the past 10 years he has served as a general effect visual guard judge for DCA, DCI and East Coast Judges Association. In the 1980s, he served as visual guard caption head for 27th Lancers, Hawthorne Muchachos, Hawthorne Caballeros and Bushwackers. He was drill designer and show coordinator with Connecticut Hurricanes from 1990 to 1994. He also handled the color guard visual caption for Cadets of Bergen County in 1979 and 1980. His drum corps activity began playing a baritone horn with St. Raphael’s Golden Buccaneers of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1961 to 1968. He marched in the color guard of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) Ridgemen from 1969 to 1971. ---------------------- Glenn Fugett is currently the Director of Bands and Orchestras at the Nashville School of the Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. He conducts two string orchestras, two concert bands, and one jazz ensemble. The school draws students from all over Metro Nashville Public Schools. He retired from teaching in Texas this summer. Prior to moving to Nashville, Glenn was Director of Bands at Legacy High School in Mansfield, Texas. He held that position since the school opened in August of 2007. He was the Associate Director of Bands at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas from the fall of 1991 through the spring of 2007. The first five years of his career, Glenn was the Head Band Director at Calallen Middle School in Corpus Christi, Texas. His concert bands and jazz bands have won numerous awards throughout the United States. The Legacy Marching Band was a finalist at the 4a UIL State Marching Band Contest in 2009. The legacy Wind Symphony was a finalist in the 4a Texas State Honor Band Competition in 2009. The Legacy Wind Symphony was "Best in Class" at the 2011 and 2015 South Coast Music Festivals. They have received Superior Ratings at UIL Concert and Sightreading every year since the school opened. The Marching Band was a finalist at the 2008, 2010, and 2011 BOA Arlington Regional. In 2011, they were the AAA Champion at the Arlington event. In 2013, they were finalists at the Austin and Allen Regionals, winning Class AAA at the latter. The Westlake Marching Band was a finalist at every Bands of America Regional they attended from 1999 through 2006. In 1999, the Westlake Band was awarded the coveted, Sudler Flag of Honor at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago. December of 2002, the Wind Ensemble was selected to perform at the prestigious Midwest Clinic. In 2003, the group marched in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California. The Westlake Jazz Ensemble was one of the premier public school jazz programs in Texas during Mr. Fugett's tenure. Glenn is a sought after clinician for Music for All, Yamaha, and Vic Firth. He is an artist with Yamaha and Vic Firth. He has been a Bands of America Summer Symposium clinician for the last 10 years. Glenn has been a judge for Bands of America since 1995, and has judged for Drum Corps International since 1992. He has judged Finals at the Drum Corps World Championships 11 times throughout his career. He was Percussion Caption Head for DCI for 5years and has been on the Music Judge Liaison team for the last three years. He is a member of the Middle Tennessee State Band and Orchestra Association. Glenn now reside in Nashville with his wife, Robin. They celebrated their 29th anniversary in August. -------------------- Mascaro, Bret Bret Mascaro has been a band director for 34 years, and currently serves as music teacher and high school band director for the Methacton School District in Pennsylvania. He has recently served as a PA Music Educators Association District President and Festival Coordinator and twice been a clinician at the PMEA Annual In-service Conference. He has been a designer or instructor for the Crossmen, Troopers, and Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps and a clinic presenter for DCI and several local and regional competitive circuits, including Cavalcade. Bret has also served as an adjudicator across the United States, Canada, and Japan for several organizations such as Bands of America, Drum Corps International, Winter Guard International, and several state pageantry associations. ------------------------- Ken Giese is an instructor, designer, and adjudicator with many years of experience in the competitive pageantry activity. He has served as an instructor, designer, and consultant for numerous Drum and Bugle Corps, High School Bands, Winter Guards, and Indoor Percussion Ensembles. He is currently a working visual caption judge for Winter Guard International (Percussion Division), Drum Corps International, and Bands of America. He has also served as an adjudicator for many local color guard and percussion circuits in the United States and Europe. Mr. Giese currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he is a High School Mathematics teacher. -------------------------- Jim Sturgeon Jim Sturgeon has over 25 years experience in the pageantry arts. He serves as an adjudicator for Drum Corps International, Bands of America, Winter Guard International, Gulf Coast Judges Association, and various marching band and color guard circuits. Jim was a member of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps and Pride of Cincinnati Winter Guard. He has served as a designer/clinician for the Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps as well as for several high school band and color guard programs throughout the country. Outside of the pageantry arts, Jim possesses a BSBA and an MBA in business from the University of Louisville. He has spent over 20 years in the human resources field. For the last 7 years, Jim has worked for Kindred Healthcare, Inc., currently serving as a Senior Director of Human Resources. Jim lives in Louisville KY. ---------------------------- Randy Greenwell City: Pendleton State: Indiana Judging Experience: Have judged for the past 30 years across the country (DCI, WGI,BOA, as well as Independent shows and state championships) Teaching Experience: 29 years as a band director, 21 at Lawrence Central High School where my marching bands have won two Bands of America Grand National Championships, numerous BOA Regional Championships and 4 Indiana State Championships. ------------------------------ Jeffery Queen is a professional musician, who is a specialist in rudimental snare drumming. At the age of 15, Queen began his drum corps career with the Canton Bluecoats and continued on to march with the Velvet Knights, Santa Clara Vanguard, Blue Knights and the University of North Texas.[1] Queen was the Drum Corps International Individual and Ensemble Snare Drum Champion in 1994 and 1995 as well as the Percussive Arts Society Individual Snare Drum Champion in 1994 and 1995. He first rose to popularity while performing in Blast!, a Broadway musical.[2] Queen has appeared on Late Show with David Letterman and performed at the 2001 NBA All-Star Game. Queen currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana and is attending Butler University to achieve his bachelor's degree in Music Theory and Composition.[3] From 2003 to 2012 he was percussion director at Avon High School.[4] He now works as a percussion instructor for the Carmel High School drum line from Carmel, Indiana and Southwest Dekalb High School Drumline in Decatur, GA.[5] Queen attended Mount Vernon High School in Alexandria, Virginia. Aside from his music career, Jeff enjoys golfing and playing with his dog, London. Amazingly absent from Mickey Kelly's bio is his long and successful history as designer and instructor of the The Skylarks Winter Guard of Westport, CT, one of most consistent medalists in the first decade of WGI. His creativity blossomed here and was but repeated with bands like Cheshire H.S. of Cheshire, Ct. If anything his drum corps work was more conservative due to the corps that they were at the times he taught them. Liahona, Thanks for doing the research on this which used to be a staple of DCI when once who judged were more known to both performer and crowd. But now in an era of one and dones, anonymity seems to reign, perhaps for the protection of the judge from irant homers and finaglers.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HornTeacher Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Or... more likely.... with the first look of the season... judges go conservative and use last season's placements as their benchmark for their 1st show's placements and scores. Maybe I'm exhibiting my true rampant naivete here, BRASSO, but i would dearly hope that isn't the case. For one, it's a new season, with new performers -- I would like to believe that it would be considered as such...after all, they don't deserve to be assessed according to last year's group of performers. Second, doing so would only serve to give fodder to those who make their claims of "DCI slotting." I would think that would be the very last position any judge would wish to have him/her self be placed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liahona Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Maybe I'm exhibiting my true rampant naivete here, BRASSO, but i would dearly hope that isn't the case. For one, it's a new season, with new performers -- I would like to believe that it would be considered as such...after all, they don't deserve to be assessed according to last year's group of performers. Second, doing so would only serve to give fodder to those who make their claims of "DCI slotting." I would think that would be the very last position any judge would wish to have him/her self be placed. Many people site the example of Phantom Regiment 2009...where they were being supposedly over-scored early shows based off a championship in the prior season...I'm not going to fall into that trap...I don't think judging is perfect...but I do trust the system that seems to get it mostly right from year to year...at least IMO they do... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cappybara Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Many people site the example of Phantom Regiment 2009...where they were being supposedly over-scored early shows based off a championship in the prior season...I'm not going to fall into that trap...I don't think judging is perfect...but I do trust the system that seems to get it mostly right from year to year...at least IMO they do... I do think that slotting from the previous year occurs at the beginning of each season, but that by the end, the judges get it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSaderFan Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Very excited for the first show. No hype here just in a better position than recent years. Better leadership, improved program design, brand new equipment for every section including the upgrade to Yamaha for brass/percussion/pit, updated uniforms for corps proper/new uniforms for the color guard, professionally built props that will be on the field and incorporated into the show, the corps will present the full show tonight, they have been doing run throughs for over a week and should be have a good run and be well received. Fans will be entertained and the show will be performed at a higher level than the start of the last few seasons. The results will be what they are and the corps has plenty to work on just like everyone else. Welcome to the 2016 season! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emc2 Posted June 23, 2016 Author Share Posted June 23, 2016 Very excited for the first show. No hype here just in a better position than recent years. Better leadership, improved program design, brand new equipment for every section including the upgrade to Yamaha for brass/percussion/pit, updated uniforms for corps proper/new uniforms for the color guard, professionally built props that will be on the field and incorporated into the show, the corps will present the full show tonight, they have been doing run throughs for over a week and should be have a good run and be well received. Fans will be entertained and the show will be performed at a higher level than the start of the last few seasons. The results will be what they are and the corps has plenty to work on just like everyone else. Welcome to the 2016 season! Thanks SSF. You are right on as always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRASSO Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 I do think that slotting from the previous year occurs at the beginning of each season, but that by the end, the judges get it right. Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumManTx Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Writing a review, will share when I'm done. Liked the show quite a bit, middle section obviously is going to continue to develop, thought they were under scored HUGE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emc2 Posted June 24, 2016 Author Share Posted June 24, 2016 Go get them tonight BAC. (I guess no scoring info will be posted in detail). BAC: 2015. 1st show: Total/GE = 23.40 Total/vis = 18.40 Total/music = 18.80 total = 60.60 IMO. All area's should improve from 015 (score wise). What will be interesting is placement. All corps above BAC beat them last year. Note: In 014 BAC 1st shows score was 66.40. IMO they are above that score as well. Good luck to all tonight. All the kids are great in all the corps. Scores from last year 1st show 015: CC68.25, BC 68.10, Cadets 69.10, PR 66.95, Cav 63.10. GE 23.40==25.10. (+1.70) Vis 18.40==17.35.(-1.05) music 18.80==18.00 (-.80). 015- 60.60. 016- 60.45==(-.15)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 (edited) Big Bird and I just arrived back from Vegas. Yeah, a 264 mile round trip. So! Those who have been around the corps said Boston is way ahead of last year at this time, but their first score is 1.15 behind last year and already nine points behind Bluecoats and Crown and BD hasn't competed yet. Let's face it, the Bluecoats dropped an A bomb on all corps tonight. I would not expect them to finish higher than those three corps, but it might be hard to catch the corps they competed against tonight and there still are several others they might be chasing. I thought they didn't march as one was led to believe with all the tech help and the drill might not allow the horn line to project louder. The're spread out a lot and not much time is spent near the side line. The show is very nice, but will it get the points needed to move up? Everyone interested or who has been around the corps this ST must admit they are a little surprised with tonight's result, but I'm more interested in how they do starting in their third show. They cannot spend weeks getting to the 80's like recent years. Right now they are chasing 30 points to move up a couple of positions. I will be pulling for them to do it, but I'll let others have the Kool Aid. (I'm was glad to see the two brass players who marched backwards into the same windmill recovered quickly. The prop might have been positioned a little off. Couldn't tell if the two mm had the wrong angle.) Edited June 28, 2016 by Ghost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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