Esperanza Performing Arts Association in cooperation with Yamaha Corporation of America is proud to launch its first in a series of educational opportunities for young musicians. Our first Brass Masters features trumpet virtuoso Jens Lindemann. The Brass Masters workshop will be held at Rancho Bernardo High School on Saturday, April 29th. Your fee includes all […]
The Vanguard Cadets are pleased to announce their two Drum Majors for the 2006 season, Ted Sands and Scott Schroeder. Ted is a returning Drum Major from the 2005 season and Scott was selected from a set of very qualified audition candidates over the past two months. Ted Sands graduated from Ponderosa High School and […]
Few drum corps venues have been met with as much spirited conversation as Indianapolis’ RCA Dome. In a summer activity primarily based outdoors, it seems almost unorthodox to put a roof over smoking brass lines and hammering percussion sections. Yet something about the ringing brass chords in a seemingly endless swirl of magnetic acoustics and […]
We’re really excited for the April 27 premier of the 2006 DCI Classic Countdown in theaters across the nation. . .so Drum Corps International has put together a prize package of EPIC proportions! It’s not "just" big and larger than life — like the corps you’ll see on the silver screen at the Classic Countdown […]
For all of you that are California dreamin’, tickets for the four events that make up the Norcal Nights series are now all on sale. Pacific Procession – June 17 – Hayward, CA Kaleidoscope Klassic – June 18 – Modesto, CA Precision West – June 30 – Pleasant Hill, CA Moonlight Classic – July 1 […]
This month on the Field Pass with DCI’s Dan Potter, the focus is on the people who attended the Drum Corps International winter meetings in Pasadena, Calif. in Feb. and the ideas they discussed. You’ll hear conversations about the future of drum corps and whether corps still have the same sense of identity they did […]
Yamato’s 2006 Color Guard Auditions for the summer drum corps season will be held on Saturday, April 29th and Sunday, April 30th at Valley View High School in Moreno Valley starting at 10am on both days. If you want to make new friends, travel and learn from one of the best guard staff in drum […]
YEA! and the corps are gearing up for the 2006 Annual Campaigns to raise money for this year’s tours and we need YOUR HELP! A vital part of our campaigns is the Annual Call-a-Thon and we are still looking for volunteers to help us call Alumni and current and past donors. These calls are our […]
Nix the cannons. That’s the word from the Toledo Symphony, which teams up this weekend with the Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps to present a pair of concerts featuring Tchaikovsky’s "1812 Overture," certainly the noisiest piece in the history of classical music. Usually this concert closer is consigned to outdoors performances, and for good reason. […]
The GLASSMEN Drum & Bugle Corps is meeting a little early for camp this weekend. Not only are they preparing to move ahead in drill and music for the 2006 summer production of "Mastery and Madness" – but they have a few very special performances as well. The corps has had a long association with […]
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