yabetterbelieveit Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 The opener entitled “The Garden” was completed by arrangers Jay Bocook, Tom Aungst and Neil Larrivee between camps and was presented at Sunday’s ensemble portion of the weekend (click here to here the clip). In addition, an introduction to the opener entitled “White Rabbit” was handed out to the members and could become quite the melody that fans will walk away humming (or whistling). Very good indeed. Love the arrangements, very light and mello. Cool name too. I hope (or whistling) means that there may be more corps whistling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fifer Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 WOW! What a horn line and so early in the pre-season!!! I'm dying to hear this with the percussion parts, seems like there'll be a lot of back and forth between the different percussion voices and horn sections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSmirage Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 My first year in college we played White Rabbit......football fans loved it. One of those things that the crowd got into, DMs fed off of the crowd, and we fed off the DMs.....it was great. I'm curious to see the show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrothgar15 Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I love it! I assume that this clip plus the clip they posted a few weeks ago forms the majority of the opener, correct? This is looking to be a GREAT show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zig zig ZAG Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 This is shaping up to be yet another incredible show! How lucky those kids will be who make the hornline this year! All of them sound brilliant at this stage. I love that they're taking the literal (white rabbit) theme and, within twenty seconds of the opener, moving into fully composed music. The Cadets balanced the two with such genius last year, I'm excited that they seem to be doing the same this year. And as for difficulty. What was missing from the 2001-2004 shows for me was innovation and difficulty, mainly in the visual design and GE, but also in the choice of music. This year, we've got one minute of WICKED hard brass parts. Did you hear the altos?! Reminds me of Rocky Point, but twice as hard. As long as the Cadets continue to push the envelope maybe more than anyone else, then they're succeeding. I could care less about the final score, just as long as what they're doing is something no one's done before. In a word, this show sounds to me like: ZAG! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 yeah - um - gulp... How many days until... ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yabetterbelieveit Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 yeah - um - gulp...How many days until... ? . . . ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebuchanezzar Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Hmmm... trumpets still don't sound like trumpets... mellophones still sound like bad trumpets (and are not doing the right things fundamentally to make that technique sound correct, virtuosic though it might be)... tubas are bumping and distorting every note-start ... baritones too... the quotes from "Alone in a Crowd" are entirely too agressive (performance-wise), every note followed by silence looses resonance and direction, all the short notes lack clarity and quality of sound (which is a lot of notes in Jeff Beal's score) ... But this is much more exciting that the 05 show, IMHO. I'm interested to hear it cleaned up... Neb B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrothgar15 Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Hmmm... trumpets still don't sound like trumpets... Trumpets in drum corps have NEVER sounded like trumpets; there's almost no way to get a close orchestral tone quality out of those things while on the move (Cavaliers 2002 came close). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayM Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Trumpets in drum corps have NEVER sounded like trumpets; there's almost no way to get a close orchestral tone quality out of those things while on the move (Cavaliers 2002 came close). So they were moving around at camp? And just because they never have (according to you) doesn't make it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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