phd-student-TTU Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 (edited) Will Pitts and design team have chosen quite the meaty source music of varied tempos and complexities to engage the audience, judges, and phans for 2016. David Warren returns for his fourth season as a Conductor, this year being his age-out. Like Moses with Joshua and Aaron holding his tired arms up, this season it's Josh and Carl Huang sharing the podium. Now to see what the Themers and viz staff build on this musical feast. :-) As Madison Scouts gave us the show title, and The Cadets gave us a hint of an opener, Regiment may be setting the World Class pace by citing the source music first. You must be on something really good. Edited November 29, 2015 by phd-student-TTU 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 All right, PR has CEO once of SCV; now a Conductor from Sunnyvale, Calif. for 2016. Should put a spark to it (pun, pun.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corps8294 Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Phantom just released what appears to be their 2016 musical selections on Twitter. "Prelude for Piano Op. 34 No. 14" by Dmitri Shostakovich "The Chairman Dances" by John Adams "Ave Verum Corpus" by Colin Mawby "Toccata Op. 11" by Sergei Prokofiev "Hymne des Fraternises: I'm Dreaming of Home" by Phillippe Rombi "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" by Benjamin Britten How many more years, in a row, are we going to have to hear "The Chairman Dances?" Good grief. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfrontz Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 We had a year off last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStainGlass Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 How many more years, in a row, are we going to have to hear "The Chairman Dances?" Good grief. It's been played a total of 3 times in DCI and never were they back 2 back. (2000,2008,and 2014) SO MANY TIMES GOOD GRIEF </sarcasm> 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchavez Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 (edited) .I'm really looking forward to thier show this coming year. Edited November 30, 2015 by jchavez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phd-student-TTU Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 I need to listen to the pieces tonight. Don't know a #### thing about Will's arranging ability. Can't tell what the theme will be either. Lots to prove this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeN Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 Great lineup! Can't wait to see how they tie it all together. (Some of my most favorite (ahem 2003, 1993) shows are when they throw a seemingly disparate group of tunes in a blender.) Mike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 (edited) I need to listen to the pieces tonight. Don't know a #### thing about Will's arranging ability. Can't tell what the theme will be either. Lots to prove this year. Here is his website: http://www.williampittsmusic.com/ A number of his original compositions can be found on YouTube. There is also a listing of the groups he has worked with. Edited November 30, 2015 by Fish 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumManTx Posted November 30, 2015 Share Posted November 30, 2015 (edited) I need to listen to the pieces tonight. Don't know a #### thing about Will's arranging ability. Can't tell what the theme will be either. Lots to prove this year. Like Don Hill he has an incredible background in the high school world, Hebron this year at nationals absolutely destroyed Music and Music GE captions across all three rounds. Like Don Hill, I love his stuff he has done in the past. What I'm hoping is that he is a better fit, because while I love Don Hills other stuff, it just didn't fit well. Either that or maybe he wasn't allowed to/given much wiggle room to do what he could truly do. I dunno. We'll see. I'm hopeful but not getting my hopes up TOO far. I'll wait til I see his work in June to make a judgement there. Sure wasn't given much to work with at Spirit this last year despite there being some very nice moments in that show. I'll put it this way. If he's given good stuff to work with, not constrained by the power above, and is a good fit. It could be really good. We shall see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfU8e9Dj7s Phantom just released what appears to be their 2016 musical selections on Twitter. "Prelude for Piano Op. 34 No. 14" by Dmitri Shostakovich "The Chairman Dances" by John Adams "Ave Verum Corpus" by Colin Mawby "Toccata Op. 11" by Sergei Prokofiev "Hymne des Fraternises: I'm Dreaming of Home" by Phillippe Rombi "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" by Benjamin Britten And as far as this stuff goes. Need to listen to a lot of it. The Adams and Britten are nice pieces. Once again it seems like there's a bunch of composers that in theory should be a PERFECT fit for Phantom, just depends on the package they're delivered in. I'm just freakin thankful there's no more rehashed material in there again that will never live up to their original takes on them. We shall see. Not making the mistake of forming any opinions until I've seen it on the field. Edited November 30, 2015 by DrumManTx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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