WesHender Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 (edited) For The Cascades Webstie: Cascades are excited to announce the design team for the 2007 season. Lewis Norfleet will serve as the music arranger for the Cascades; have previously held this position with the corps from 2000-2003. Norfleet is a veteran drum corps and marching band arranger, having written for bands through out the region. He work has been published by Marching Show Concepts and Matrix Publishing Company. He is the co-director of bands at Evergreen High School (WA). Chris Whyte, Mike Stevens, and Dwayne Rice will take on the percussion arranging for the Cascades. Whyte was most recently percussion arranger and caption head for the Oregon Crusaders in 2006. He is an alumnus of the Cascades, Bluecoats, and Blue Devils. Like Whyte, Stevens' roots are in the northwest. He was a member of the Spartans from 1986-1988, the Blue Devils 1989-1990, and aged out with The Cadets in 1991. After aging out, Mike taught The Cadets percussion section from 1992-1995, and went on to become the Percussion Caption Head for the Blue Knights from 1998-2000, where he worked closely with DCI hall of famer Ralph Hardimon. Stevens is a Dynasty artist, and a Pro-Mark signature artist. Dwayne Rice is the arranger and composer for many outstanding high school marching bands around the country, and a freelance composer of both classical and film music. Dwayne was also the front ensemble instructor for the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps in 1999 and 2000. He has studied percussion with Paul Rennick, Mark Ford, Leigh Howard Stevens, Doug Rosener, and Brian Mason and composition with Cindy McTee. Becca Sullens will be the guard designer and choreographer for the corps in 2007. Sullens was a performing member with Carolina Crown and the Cadets. Recently she has served on the staffs of Tarpon Springs High School (FL), Countryside High School (FL) and is currently the color guard caption head for Evergreen High School (WA). Becca is active as a designer, instructor, and adjudicator throughout the country. We are very excited to have the individuals join our staff, said Mike Leone Corps Director of the Seattle Cascades. "We know these individuals will bring new and fresh ideas to our organization." We will be announcing our visual/drill designer shortly. Cascades Website For me this is mixed feelings seeing new staff being hired by the Cascades is hard bacause the staff from 2006 was a great gourp of people that i will miss forever! Thanks for everything guys! Good luck to the new Cascades staff! Edited October 11, 2006 by WesHender Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 sounds good, wish them the best. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whiskey Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 That's a pretty good percussion staff. It's been awhile since hearing Mike Stevens name. Blue Knights percussion success in the late 90's owes much of its success to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oc1 Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 That's a pretty good percussion staff. It's been awhile since hearing Mike Stevens name. Blue Knights percussion success in the late 90's owes much of its success to him. Yea, didn't Knights get in to the top 6 and even in to like 3rd in 99 or 2000?? Mike is an amazing talent. Should be interesting to see what they can put out with the percussionists in the NW. Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_S Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Anyone who worked with BK in 1999 is a good hire in my book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdrum2006 Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 well...i think it would have been a great move if they could've gotten mike stevens on board as the caption-head. knowing the OTHER percussion staff members....[What you had here before, will not be tolerated, and was deleted by Matthew] i just hope that mike stevens can make a difference. cascades have had talented people such as jeff bush, david reeves, matt little, etc...running their drumlines, and now they have this...it's a shame really. i'm disappointed...however, i do understand WHY they did it....but i wont state my thoughts on why. i'm sure MOST people in the NW know what i'm thinking. i don't want to get into it too much...it just makes me sick...EVERYTHING that is happening here in the NW. --Please watch how you say things. Slandering and trash talking any staff or administration will not be tolerated. I will go through and edit if you continue to post trash.--Matthew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Is John Freeman still Visual Design Caption head ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scadescontra Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 Still haven't announced who will be the drill designer, or visual caption head... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oc1 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 well...i think it would have been a great move if they could've gotten mike stevens on board as the caption-head.knowing the OTHER percussion staff members.... i just hope that mike stevens can make a difference. cascades have had talented people such as jeff bush, david reeves, matt little, etc...running their drumlines, and now they have this...it's a shame really. i'm disappointed...however, i do understand WHY they did it....but i wont state my thoughts on why. i'm sure MOST people in the NW know what i'm thinking. i don't want to get into it too much...it just makes me sick...EVERYTHING that is happening here in the NW. I like Mike Stevens and think that he will do wonders with this young staff. John S. is an amazing talent and if he's got the bass drummers that can play, they'll be great. I don't think you should write the percussion staff off yet. I also know that some people question Chris's age and abilities, but with Mike S. there, it doesn't matter to me. I too am very skeptical of the happenings on in the NW, but I've learned to be patient and see what comes of it. Maybe I'm being too hopeful that the NW will put a great percussive product out on the Div 1 field. I am an alum of Scades and worked with OC in the lean times and I just hope that something comes of all this chaos. Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBlade00 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Thanks for the kind words Shawn :), btw I e-mailed the webmaster to maybe hopefully change my butchered name on the site. It's Jon Supnick not John Supnik! Also, thanks to Matthew for the edited post above... Those posts were just uncalled for. ~Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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