karuna Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Congrats Vandegrift. Great music, great drill, and basically some flats across the back for props. There's hope for the marching arts yet! And wow -- look at Texas go! 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffmolnar Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 12 hours ago, karuna said: Congrats Vandegrift. Great music, great drill, and basically some flats across the back for props. There's hope for the marching arts yet! And wow -- look at Texas go! Texas has been going like that for about 3 decades now. It's just not easy or financially feasible to take the trip up to Indianapolis every year. DCI/BOA should probably relocate to San Antonio at this point. Texas is where the talent is. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seen-it-all Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 (edited) All six Texas bands who went to Indy finished among the top twelve finalist bands, and four of them finished in the top six! Crazy. But dammm those kids are trained well all-around. Edited November 17, 2019 by seen-it-all 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Continental Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 13 hours ago, karuna said: Congrats Vandegrift. Great music, great drill, and basically some flats across the back for props. There's hope for the marching arts yet! And wow -- look at Texas go! There is so much talent in these bands. One thing that goes through my mind when viewing these groups is that often the group is just too large to have any really effective drill - but I've always loved big-picture drill and lately we see so little of it. Everything seems to be pockets of drill on the field. I loved Avon's show musically, but that narration....absolutely not required for that show. "8 beautiful notes" might as well have been Yowza, Yowza, Yowza. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_orangecounty Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Never understood why the state of Texas has not produced a top-tier Drum Corps. They have money, strong high school band programs, it seems like a natural fit. Maybe it’s the weather? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 29 minutes ago, greg_orangecounty said: Never understood why the state of Texas has not produced a top-tier Drum Corps. They have money, strong high school band programs, it seems like a natural fit. Maybe it’s the weather? Crossmen are still considered "those new people from Pennsylvania" in some Texas band circles. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Continental Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 (edited) So often the best band's don't go to NA for BOA. Who is on staff at RR? I couldn't find any information. What an amazing program. Edited November 17, 2019 by Continental 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 14 hours ago, karuna said: Congrats Vandegrift. Great music, great drill, and basically some flats across the back for props. There's hope for the marching arts yet! And wow -- look at Texas go! As a director of Vandegrift is part of Team VanDoren invading Santa Clara, will the Vandegrift shift be reflected in Gaines going back to drill and less props as when he was classy in writing those great programs while at Cavies? https://www.scvanguard.org/dvteam/katie-vandoren/ I have to note her probable exhilaration at beating Avon as she is a former Crownie who was trained there by Harloffs who just happens to lead 2nd place Avon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xandandl Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 8 minutes ago, Continental said: So often the best band's don't go to NA for BOA. Who is on staff at RR? I couldn't find any information. What an amazing program. yes, both Texas UIL limitations on how many consecutive years a band can travel out of state and BOA's own rotation policy which limits some bands does not make Indy a full national championship of every best band as participants in any given season. It is almost similar to the BDB/SCVC situation in DCI Open Class, not to diminish Spartans title at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Flores Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Vandegrift did raise one big question last night... Can a corps go with a dance company/troupe instead of a rifle/flag/sabre guard and still be successful. Vandegrift didn't really have a color guard, but I'll be darned they were amazing last night 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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