Tekneek Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 (edited) http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/200...news/news05.txt Douglas Morris, high school band director, said at the current rate of improvement he expects 2007-2008 to be a banner year for the PHS Band. He said, “Next year is going to be our year.”Morris said the band received no awards two years ago, then placed third in one competition last year. He said, “They had been a third and fourth division band not doing anything. When I came here two years ago they were emulating Drum Corps International, which is a style that went out before 1975.” After changing their routine and getting some new material to play, Morris said the band is now first division. Ok. Is this man honestly saying that high school bands emulating DCI corps went out of style just 3 years after DCI was formed? This is credible? Is this man totally out to lunch? I came across this thanks to Google's news-alert service and was floored by the apparent ignorance of the comment and hoped someone here could explain how a "music educator" could actually be correct when they state something like the quote above. Edited November 1, 2006 by Tekneek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Boo Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 It's possible what he meant was in reference to some bands that used to take corps shows in their entirety and port everything...music and drill forms, to their show. The sort of stopped when drills became much more complex and we no longer had forms that were easily converted from drum corps field to marching band field. Anyhow, it's just not worth getting upset over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekneek Posted November 1, 2006 Author Share Posted November 1, 2006 Still, 1975? I find that very difficult to believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crashhelmi36 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 What was that video that someone posted on here a while ago that had a high school band doing PR 96 (at least their opener) verbatim? I refuse to believe that this is true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbc03 Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Maybe he means they were emulating DCI corps of the 70s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeN Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Yeah, I think he meant the elevator drill of the 70's. I've found that in Texas, there's a huge subset of directors that think that's what DCI has been and is still about. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldgough Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 (edited) Thats re-donkulous. I'll bet the newspaper just mis-quoted him. Newspapers can be really dumb sometimes. One time when I was the Drum Major at Troopers a newspaper quoted me as saying that "Our marching band will be traveling to nearly thirty states." Did I say marching band half way through a drum corps season? No. As a matter of fact I stopped calling Drum Corps Marching Band after my first camp in my rookie year. Newspapers suck sometimes. Mike Gough Troopers DM 2003-2004 HLD Edited November 1, 2006 by michaeldgough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAvery Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 It's possible what he meant was in reference to some bands that used to take corps shows in their entirety and port everything...music and drill forms, to their show. The sort of stopped when drills became much more complex and we no longer had forms that were easily converted from drum corps field to marching band field.Anyhow, it's just not worth getting upset over. That's probably what was meant. It probably got "rewritten" several times by the editor or reporter. Anyway, in my neck of the woods, SW Ohio, this trend did not stop until the early 80's. When I went to KY to teach in 1988, they were still doing drum corps rip-offs at that time. It brings up another question. Is there still an area of the country where bands do drum corps rip-offs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeN Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Happens all the time, everywhere in the country - just depends on the school, really. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldgough Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Boise Idaho. Even the university rips stuff off here at the smurf turf. Mike Gough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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