Carolina Crown 2026

[MadisonBandMan1]

I agree with NewArpege on all of those points

I have also been screaming from my chest for a few years now but I want them to do a deeply emotional show about war, particularly WW2, or rather, the effects of war on the people. I wrote up a whole show design myself for this because its something I want to see put on the field. I am not talking about something like Boom or the show that one of the blue corps did a few years ago (I can't remember which one) but a show really embracing the pain and suffering that war brings. Something absolutely gutwrenching and painful, I feel like that would be a GE monster and would hold the crowd at the tip of their fingers. Show the effects of famine, the pain of dictatorship, the hardening of the heart fighting a war in adverse conditions. This is where I think a music and drill package of the standards of the 2012 show would have massive impact, using the full potential of the front ensemble - two timpani sets and concert bass drums, crash cymbals etc. For the ballad, I wouldn't want something necessarily modern as the ballad, but it also isn't a classical orchestral piece. I have said many times I reallllly want Klesch to get his hands on the old Russian war hymn that Boston used parts of in Animal Farm, "Polye Polushka." Slow it down and treat it like a ballad ala Balmages' "Moscow, 1941," and it would have so much emotional impact that there would not be a dry eye in the stadium and you might hear a pin drop in the silence. 

I sincerely think Wes would excel in a show design of this style. The show doesn't have to be a story show, this is all purely conceptual and thematic and I think it would work so well for the field. 

If anyone wants to know the pain I mean in songwriting and show writing, please watch this. This is the kind of emotion I want in a show from crown. 
 

 

[KVG_DC]

5 hours ago, OldCorpsGuy said:

David Maslanka Symphony #4. I know it can’t happen but……🤓

Not sure if the estate is as restrictive as it once was or if perhaps they don’t want it done in brass only arrangements. But Bands have gotten approval to do this including Harloff’s own Avon in 2017.  If anyone could convince the estate it’d be handled well, I think it’s him  

 

 

[OldCorpsGuy]

5 minutes ago, KVG_DC said:

Not sure if the estate is as restrictive as it once was or if perhaps they don’t want it done in brass only arrangements. But Bands have gotten approval to do this including Harloff’s own Avon in 2017.  If anyone could convince the estate it’d be handled well, I think it’s him  

 

 

I’ve heard the estate doesn’t want to let stuff on the field but….🤷‍♂️

[Ashontheinternet]

i thought a lot to myself this year about how i think crown has built a design team capable of making a championship program, and absolutely has the talent for it to year after year. i think all thst is needed now is to give this team time to settle in with each other, learn how to work together and create an environment where these guys can pen up winning programs with relative ease. i think this season will have served as a big wake up call visually, focus more on drill, guard, being visually compelling without large set pieces. not that i think the props were bad (i grew to really like them) but i think judges now are beginning to reward props that are really well integrated into the show, see; BAC ball props, Bloo color cubes, SCV pink and green circles and tubes, mandarins tubes.

i think better integrated props will serve them well on the sheets. 

[MikeRapp]

5 hours ago, MadisonBandMan1 said:

They also could have had a silk flown over them engulfing them, showing the entire hornline being engulfed by fate after being trapped by the props. 

 

[wigwam]

18 hours ago, MadisonBandMan1 said:

Gotta get ahead of the curve!

What are our thoughts on how next season goes given this (now past) season? They were much more aggressive at making changes this season, I want to see even more of that next year!

Congrats on starting the new thread!!  You win!

[OldCorpsGuy]

1 hour ago, KVG_DC said:

Not sure if the estate is as restrictive as it once was or if perhaps they don’t want it done in brass only arrangements. But Bands have gotten approval to do this including Harloff’s own Avon in 2017.  If anyone could convince the estate it’d be handled well, I think it’s him  

 

 

I don’t know if you know the work, but several parts…ESPECIALLY THE END!!!! have Crown written all over it. 

[NewArpege]

I’d like a noticeable different sound this coming year. Maybe Middle Eastern or African concert music? Still right down Crowns lane but be very unique sounding compared to other groups. Very percussive and colorful. Hard pivot from greys, reds, and dark purple. Something vibrant. 

[KVG_DC]

46 minutes ago, OldCorpsGuy said:

I don’t know if you know the work, but several parts…ESPECIALLY THE END!!!! have Crown written all over it. 

Oh entirely.  When Avon did it they had the brass doing the big ringing melody and the woodwinds wailing away on those runs underneath it.  And everyone was "Harloff...Crown should do this."

[c.l.]

2 hours ago, OldCorpsGuy said:

I’ve heard the estate doesn’t want to let stuff on the field but….🤷‍♂️

They don’t own the Doxology. If Crown decides to add some runs underneath that, who’s to say it isn’t just creative arranging? (Being slightly facetious, I know they couldn’t do this)