Screamer Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 If the last 3 minutes or so of Wine Dark Sea will be used as the closer, I expect babies to be thrown nonstop haha. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Dixon Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 please don't injure babies during the Cadets 2016 performances! :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 please don't injure babies during the Cadets 2016 performances! :)George, have you been to any camps? I know you're an insider... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeN Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Funny you say that. I saw the Cadets 2005 early in the season and I was very skeptical. I found it querky and wierd and not very Cadet like. I was with a friend who marched Cadets with me and she turned to me after the show and said very definitively it was the best drum corps show she'd ever seen. Funny.. I came around as it was tweeted and cleaned but we saw very different things early on, I felt that way in 2011. Saw them 2nd show out of the gate, and it was a boring mess. Somewhere along the way it turned great. :) Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeN Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I'll wait for something official. Wouldn't be the first time though. Honestly though if every corps was as open with their design processes we'd probably see that lots of corps at some point in the past have scrapped ideas or even started over. We just don't hear about it. Still HIGHLY applaud their transparency and look into what goes on between August and June. No one else even remotely comes close to it. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Complete with John Mackey commenting on listening to Cadets camp: http://yea.org/programs/cadets/cadets/news/1169-new-music-by-mackey-for-the-cadets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2000Cadet Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 OMG. Dude. You've GOT to go listen. THIS is Asphalt Cocktail ('Coats, '11, I think?) Put on phones, crank it, and hang on. Ok I can see (and hear) the significance of John Mackey's comment on WDS. The above is fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrumManTx Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 (edited) Mackey's definitely a rockstar in the band world right now. Great music and a seemingly hilarious and cool guy. I've either played or heard some of his music locally just about every year since 2010 where I go to college/went to high school and some summer camps. Xerxes, Asphault Cocktail, Turbine, Highwire, Foundry, Aurora Awakes, Strange Humors, Lightning Fields, and Kingfishers Catch Fire off of the top of my head. Very distinct and ridiculously intense music. Also takes A LOT of time to set up and tear down as a percussionist. :p Very cool choice from the Cadets. I knew Wine Dark Sea would be used pretty fast after that amazing TMEA premiere. Would have definitely picked someone like Bluecoats first. I like the breaking stereotypes thing. That hornline and percussion + that intense music = VERY fun. Edited February 1, 2016 by DrumManTx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tobias Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 Complete with John Mackey commenting on listening to Cadets camp: http://yea.org/programs/cadets/cadets/news/1169-new-music-by-mackey-for-the-cadets Such cool stuff. Those last three brass spots are now filled too. Cadets since around 2013 have such intense music.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 (edited) Mackey's definitely a rockstar in the band world right now. Great music and a seemingly hilarious and cool guy. I've either played or heard some of his music locally just about every year since 2010 where I go to college/went to high school and some summer camps. Xerxes, Asphault Cocktail, Turbine, Highwire, Foundry, Aurora Awakes, Strange Humors, Lightning Fields, and Kingfishers Catch Fire off of the top of my head. Very distinct and ridiculously intense music. Also takes A LOT of time to set up and tear down as a percussionist. :p Very cool choice from the Cadets. I knew Wine Dark Sea would be used pretty fast after that amazing TMEA premiere. Would have definitely picked someone like Bluecoats first. I like the breaking stereotypes thing. That hornline and percussion + that intense music = VERY fun. Sorry if this is too erudite, but to me Mackey is not just a musical star but the literary source work he pivots his pieces on is amazing and super well read. His Wine-Dark Sea is based on Homer's description of what he sees of sailors of his time and the condition of the drinking wine. Kingfishers Catch Fire (commissioned in Japan) is also the name of a poem written by the English Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins who lived concurrent with our Civil War era and was part of the high school curriculum I studied back in the late '60's. (Note the rhythm and pacing of the poem; a literary genius.) (poem is at end of this post) Marian Catholic Marching Band did a field show based on a different G.M. Hopkins poem. In all this Mackey reminds me of Cadets' percussion arranger Colin MacNutt with his college degrees in Latin and Greek plus the music percussion we all know him for and love. Much more than surface level composing here on both. Some have criticized that the Cadets shows, though technical, have been too cerebral. WSD certainly isn't but it is definitely complex yet exciting. No wonder the other Hopkins liked it. As Kingfishers Catch Fire BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came. I say móre: the just man justices; Keeps grace: thát keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is — Chríst — for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces. Edited February 1, 2016 by xandandl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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