Pitch me your DCI show concepts.

[scheherazadesghost]

Vanguard should rehash Pathways next year for the 20 year anniversary. Gut the ballad cause the male female pairing was goofy anyway, retool the third movement, update closer and opener. Maybe start further away, say from the far opposite corners of the field or the front and back sidelines.

Bring back splashes of Myron's old drill and an actual music break for a Vanguard yell.

The community would lose their #### minds.

[IllianaLancerContra]

26 minutes ago, MikeRapp said:

Sleep.

Act 1: Drifting off

Act 2: Dream that starts off innocently and turns into a nightmare.

Act 3: Wake up and realize it was all a dream

There are common ideas here like wearing pajamas in a public place, falling, showing up at a class for a test you never studied for

Nightmare could be a Yoko Ono medley 

[Chief Guns]

Probably doesn't count as a show concept (I apologize now) but I am still lobbying for BD to do a show with all Gordon Goodwin music. 

If it ever comes to fruition, DCI will get rich off of me, because I will pay triple the admission to hear that. 

BD Brass.......Gordon Goodwin.......YES!

[KVG_DC]

42 minutes ago, MikeRapp said:

Sleep.

Act 1: Drifting off

Act 2: Dream that starts off innocently and turns into a nightmare.

Act 3: Wake up and realize it was all a dream

There are common ideas here like wearing pajamas in a public place, falling, showing up at a class for a test you never studied for

8.5 hours of Max Richter to pick from for source too!

https://www.maxrichtermusic.com/albums/sleep/

Edited August 4, 2022 by KVG_DC

[IllianaLancerContra]

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass would be great for an open-class Corps.  

[NewArpege]

“Satellite.”  About the journey of a satellite from launch through deep space, inspired by the new Jim Webb telescope photos. Drill formations would include popular constellation figures, merging galaxies, and getting ripped apart in a black hole.  

Edited August 4, 2022 by NewArpege

[WarriorWay]

I don't know why Bluecoats never did a tron themed show

[KVG_DC]

16 minutes ago, WarriorWay said:

I don't know why Bluecoats never did a tron themed show

Oh...my....god.....

A guard moment where they've got colored cloth and make turns around horn players to visually mimic the cycles part.  

[Orwellian Wiress]

28 minutes ago, NewArpege said:

“Satellite.”  About the journey of a satellite from launch through deep space, inspired by the new Jim Webb telescope photos. Drill formations would include popular constellation figures, merging galaxies, and getting ripped apart in a black hole.  

This is awesome. James Webb pictures would make great backdrops or guard flags.

[IllianaLancerContra]

I also have a serious show idea:  In Flanders Fields, based on the WW1 poem by John McCrae.

 

Starts out with ragtime, representing the prewar, 1910-summer 1914.  Morphs into Mars, The Bringer of War, by Holst. 

Second movement is Sanctus by Jenkins, with the Leonard Cohen (see below) reading of In Flanders Fields, perhaps working in The Last Post (on a valveless bugle) as well. 

Third movement begins with The Yanks Are Coming and Over There medley (perhaps a bit of Mademoiselle from Armentières as well).  War ends, and we morph into Jazz Age music.

At the end of closer, narration is something like "In Germany, many felt that the German capitulation to the terms of the Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles was unnecessary and a stab in the back of the German people.  They soon found a voice in an Austrian who served with the German Army in Flanders.  His name was Adolph Hitler"    with the rhythm of Mars softly in background getting louder.

This would have been great during Centenary of the was, 2014-18.

 

Here is the poem I refer to: