So What Should They Do NEXT Year?

[hostrauser]

LOOK AGAIN.

Too much the SAME .

corps need there own identity. They can not ALL play wind ensemble music.

THATS WHY WE ARE LOOSING FANS >>>

WE ARE GETTING BORING>>>>>>>>>

LL

Too much the same? I count in excess of three dozen selections in my shows that have NEVER been performed in DCI. Have you even heard "Thalaba the Destroyer" or "The Lake at Evening" (or "Silmarian Meanderings," or Jacques Ibert's--NOT Camille Saint-Saens'--"Bacchanale")?

Too much the same? Blue Devils doing a show based on Carnivale? Carolina Crown putting an ancient Roman orgy on the field (well, figuratively)? The Cadets doing a show based on a novel about the comic book business in 1940s New York? Vanguard doing a show about the Aegean isles? When were those shows performed? Sure, some of the choices (Scouts show, specifically) were designed to put a new, fresh twist on a corps' traditional style, but I think a lot of the shows are pretty original.

I also counted only about nine or ten pieces that are wind ensemble music, out of the 62 selections listed.

I'm happy to accept constructive criticism, but I'm going to have to side with those who have come to my defense: you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about here.

[MikeD]

you've been pushing this one for a while! (and I happen to agree. I've been waiting to see this on the field forever!)

I know! And they just don't listen!

[GMichael1230]

2010 Ideas for 2009's Top 15...

Blue Devils - "A Cidade Maravilhosa: the music of Rio"

-- Aguas de Marco (Antonio Carlos Jobim)

-- Tico Tico (Zequinha Abreu)

-- Cancao do Exercito (Teofilo Magalhaes)

-- The Wheat Dance from "Estancia" (Alberto Ginastera)

-- Dansa brasileira (Camargo Mozart Guarnieri)

-- Batuque (Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez)

Carolina Crown - "The Rose Orgy"

-- Pines of the Villa Borghese from "Pines of Rome" (Ottorino Respighi)

-- Bacchanale (Jacques Ibert)

-- Ayshe's Dance from "Gayaneh" (Aram Khachaturian)

-- Bacchanalia Variations from "Spartacus" (Aram Khachaturian)

-- Orgiastic Dance from "Belkis, Queen of Sheba" (Ottorino Respighi)

The Cadets - "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay"

-- Fanfare for a Golden Sky (Scott Boerma)

-- Lex from "Metropolis Symphony" (Michael Daugherty)

-- The Lake at Evening from "Three Tone Poems" (Charles Tomlinson Griffes)

-- Fancy Free (Leonard Bernstein)

The Cavaliers - "Galactic Empires"

-- Galactic Empires (David Gillingham)

-- Serenade: Songs for the Night (David Gillingham)

Santa Clara Vanguard - "Santorini Nights"

-- Aegean Festival Overture (Andreas Makris)

-- Epirotikos from "Greek Dances" (Nikos Skalkottas)

-- The Fountain of the Villa Medici at Sunset from "Fountains of Rome" (Ottorino Respighi)

-- Sparkler (Tom Cipullo)

Bluecoats - "1984"

-- Music from "The Wall" (Pink Floyd)

Blue Stars - "Exhibition at the Glass Palace"

-- Promenade from "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Modest Mussorgsky)

-- La baigneuse de Trouville from "Le Maries de la Tour Eiffel" (Francis Poulenc)

-- Valse des depeches from "Le Maries de la Tour Eiffel" (Germaine Tailleferre)

-- Symphony No. 1 (Samuel Barber)

-- Light Cavalry Overture (Franz von Suppe)

Boston Crusaders - "The Light and the Darkness"

-- Overture to La Forza del Destino (Guiseppe Verdi)

-- Allerseelen (Richard Strauss)

-- Symphony for solo piano, Mvt. IV (Charles-Valentin Alkan)

Phantom Regiment - "Dichotomy: Good vs. Evil"

-- Hagen's Call to His Clan from "Gotterdammerung" (Richard Wagner)

-- Sinbad Battles Kali from "Golden Voyage of Sinbad" (Miklos Rosza)

-- Gnossienne No. 4 (Erik Satie)

-- Thalaba’s Fatal Languor / Ecstasy of Faith and Love from "Thalaba the Destroyer" (Granville Bantock)

Blue Knights - "The Knight Attack"

-- The Miraculous Mandarin (Bela Bartok)

-- Pe Loc from "Romanian Folk Dances" (Bela Bartok)

-- Buciumeana from "Romanian Folk Dances" (Bela Bartok)

-- The Vikings from "Fenland Suite" (Arthur Wills)

Glassmen - "Heart of Darkness"

-- Incident at Isla Nublar from "Jurassic Park" (John Williams)

-- Hippo Attack from "Congo" (Jerry Goldsmith)

-- High-Wire Act from "Jurassic Park" (John Williams)

-- Kahega from "Congo" (Jerry Goldsmith)

-- Gates of Zinj from "Congo" (Jerry Goldsmith)

-- Amy's Nightmare from "Congo" (Jerry Goldsmith)

Troopers - "Let Freedom Ring"

-- Fanfare for the Signal Corps (Howard Hanson)

-- American Centennial March (Richard Wagner)

-- America the Beautiful (Samuel Ward)

-- Stars and Stripes Forever (John Phillip Sousa)

-- Flag of Stars (Gordon Jacob)

Colts - "The Great Saturday Afternoon Adventure"

-- Slava! (Leonard Bernstein)

-- Children's Dance from "Merry Mount" (Howard Hanson)

-- The Golden Year (Leroy Anderson)

-- American Faces (David Holsinger)

The Academy - "Supernatural"

-- Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age from "The Planets" (Gustav Holst)

-- Night on Bald Mountain (Modest Mussorgsky)

-- Neptune, the Mystic from "The Planets" (Gustav Holst)

-- Funeral March from "Dance of the Gnomes" (Ottorino Respighi)

-- Finale (Allegro) from "Dance of the Gnomes" (Ottorino Respighi)

Madison Scouts - "The Sun Also Rises"

-- Alborada del gracio from "Capriccio Espagnol" (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

-- Revel from "Danzas Fantasticas" (Joaquin Turina)

-- Night from "Silmarian Meanderings" (Chance Thomas)

-- Malaguena (Ernesto Lecuona)

Absolutely brilliant, thought out, effective and would work well for each chosen corps. Great job.

G

[GMichael1230]

And I STILL want Madison Scouts to tackle the "music inspired by" Dick Tracy soundtrack by Madonna...it can work.

G

[chaos001]

yes

and use Meditation from Thais by Jules Massenet , with extended sop solo for a ballad (I feel really happy thinking about it)

if anybody OTHER than Phantom plays that, i will cry...... The piece is just SCREAMING "PHANTOM REGIMENT, PLAY ME!! PLAY ME!!!"

hellllllllls yes. ;)

which violinist's interpretation of this piece do u like the most?

Crown's shows musically are not vanilla. Vanilla to me equals "bland" and not very interesting.

technically speaking, vanilla's one of the most complex organic compounds people eat. sorry, that just crossed my mind while reading it.

and to Bruckner for saying what he said...

[DrinkinOuttaCups]

Has anybody done "Evening Prayer" from Hansel and Gretel? It's by Engelbert Humperdinck. I think it would make a fantastic ballad.

[Gaddabout]

Crossmen: The Music of Don Ellis

I believe the Blue Devils have done this before. I think this because I recall a conversation with Don's drummer from that era, David Crigger, discussing the experience.

[hostrauser]

I believe the Blue Devils have done this before.

1993

[Bruckner8]

I know! And they just don't listen!

Sinfonietta is pure sound...I'm sure the visual people wouldn't have a clue. It doesn't meet the metric requirements either: it's too slow for "fast music" and too fast for "ballad." (The opener we're talkin about, right?) But just think how cool the drill could be, with different subdivisions of the beats moving in the "correct" relation to the music.

9 distinct Trumpet parts...that narrows it down to only a few qualified hornlines.

I don't think the rights are easy to get either. Lookup "Janacek" on corpsreps.com...only one hit...for a corps I never heard of.

As long as you're calling the people from the Janacek estate, make sure to get permission to do the Glagolitic Mass too:

If you want to see it played, along with the Organ Postlude (or skip to 2:30 for the Intrada):

The rest of the piece has incredible moments too, but I won't bore y'all anymore.

_{I had the chance to perform this monumental work last February, at Carnegie Hall}

[general_tsos_chicken2]

hellllllllls yes. ;)

which violinist's interpretation of this piece do u like the most?

woo hoo somebody understands the phenominality (i think i just made that word up) of the piece

I think Michael Rabins the best.