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Post by hawknate14 on Dec 29, 2023 17:30:20 GMT -6
I didn't know where to put DCI All ages/Formerly DCA content. So I made a thread.
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Post by hawknate14 on Dec 29, 2023 17:32:12 GMT -6
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Post by hawknate14 on Jan 17, 2024 9:38:14 GMT -6
Skyliners
One Day I'll Fly
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Jun 20, 2024 20:54:18 GMT -6
DCX has show titles for all thirteen All-Age corps (and repertoires for most of them): World ClassAtlanta CV -- "Civilization" Bushwackers -- "The Ride" Connecticut Hurricanes -- "Channel Green" * Hawthorne Caballeros -- "Different Strings" Reading Buccaneers -- "Hat Trick: The Art of Three" Open ClassCincinnati Tradition -- "From a Stone" Fusion Core -- "Breathe" ** Rogues Hollow Regiment -- "27" White Sabers -- "Aurora" Class AColumbus Saints -- "Lenox Avenue: Midnight" Govenaires -- "Woodstock: This Is the Dawning" Skyliners -- "One Day I'll Fly" Sunrisers -- "The Light Within" Classes as per this tweet by From The Pressbox. * I think this is probably a mistake, since what's listed there is the same title and repertoire as Hurcs played last year. Their website still has their 2023 show listed. According to Facebook, their Friends & Family Preview is this Sunday. Their first competition is at the Barnum Festival on June 29th. ** The site mistakenly lists them as "Fusion Corps."
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Post by hewhowaits on Jun 21, 2024 5:38:45 GMT -6
Hawthorne Caballeros -- "Different Strings" If the rep doesn't include the song of this name by Rush, they've missed a great musical opportunityy.
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Jun 23, 2024 0:38:30 GMT -6
DCX has show titles for all thirteen All-Age corps (and repertoires for most of them) ... Connecticut Hurricanes -- "Channel Green" * * I think this is probably a mistake, since what's listed there is the same title and repertoire as Hurcs played last year. Their website still has their 2023 show listed. According to Facebook, their Friends & Family Preview is this Sunday. Their first competition is at the Barnum Festival on June 29th. The Hurricanes announced their show on Facebook today. The title is "Angel of Vengeance," with four musical selections: one each by Samuel Barber (you know the one), Coolio et al. ("tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699"), James Last (shepherding a lonely Zamfir tune, I suspect because of its use in Kill Bill, itself a (two-part) tale of vengeance), and James Horner. The last is a track from the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven: the one with Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung Hun-lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Martin Sensmeier. The 1960 original -- itself an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) -- starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Brad Dexter, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, and Robert Vaughn. I met Vaughn, best known to many as Napoleon Solo on The Man from U.N.C.L.E., about 15 years ago when he starred in a play about the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (later the subject of a film starring Bryan Cranston). At that time, he was already the last surviving member of the original seven (Coburn, Dexter, Buchholz, and Bronson all having died within the sapce of nine months in 2002-2003). He died in 2016 at the age of 83. (Vaughn's U.N.C.L.E. co-star, David McCallum, later appeared for 20 seasons on NCIS and passed away last September at the age of 90.) For reasons unknown to me, the Hurricanes long ago adopted Elmer Bernstein's theme from the 1960 movie as their corps song and they have quoted it in most of their shows.
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Jun 23, 2024 0:45:35 GMT -6
Hawthorne Caballeros -- "Different Strings" If the rep doesn't include the song of this name by Rush, they've missed a great musical opportunity. I was disappointed when Reading Buccaneers' 2019 show, "Dans ma chambre," included nothing by the Beach Boys or Saint-Saëns.
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Jun 28, 2024 20:03:29 GMT -6
Hawthorne Caballeros -- "Different Strings" If the rep doesn't include the song of this name by Rush, they've missed a great musical opportunityy. The Caballeros' repertoire is now listed at DCX, and it does indeed include that Rush song, as well as "Roundabout" (the Yes song), "Dance" by Oliver Davis, "Chin Chin" by Astor Piazzolla, and Ravel's "Bolero."
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Post by hewhowaits on Jun 29, 2024 4:49:14 GMT -6
If the rep doesn't include the song of this name by Rush, they've missed a great musical opportunityy. The Caballeros' repertoire is now listed at DCX, and it does indeed include that Rush song, as well as "Roundabout" (the Yes song), "Dance" by Oliver Davis, "Chin Chin" by Astor Piazzolla, and Ravel's "Bolero." That's a musical selection I can get into wholeheartedly (except perhaps the overplayed Ravel).
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Jun 29, 2024 13:22:40 GMT -6
The Caballeros' repertoire is now listed at DCX, and it does indeed include that Rush song, as well as "Roundabout" (the Yes song), "Dance" by Oliver Davis, "Chin Chin" by Astor Piazzolla, and Ravel's "Bolero." That's a musical selection I can get into wholeheartedly (except perhaps the overplayed Ravel). Probably my favorite drum corps t-shirt is for the Caballeros' 2013 show, "Unravel." (The following year, Dublin Jerome H.S. performed a show titled "UnRavel'd." Mostly different music, though.)
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Jun 30, 2024 0:03:21 GMT -6
There were two standstill exhibition performances to start the Corps at the Crest event tonight.
1. The Sacremento Freelancers Alumni Corps, with 27 members, tonight played: --Eleanor Rigby (John Lennon & Paul McCartney) --Bridge Over Troubled Water (Paul Simon) --Spain (Chick Corea)
"Spain" had snippets of some other Latin tunes, including "Malaguena." All of the tunes were distinct arrangements: there was, e.g., no whiff at all of the Bluecoats in the Freelancers' take on the Beatles.
There was also a slow chorale opener that I've heard before but don't know the name of.
2. The Calgary Stetson Showband, with about 77 members, tonight played: --Get Lucky (Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, et al. [Daft Punk song]) --Sucker (Ryan Tedder, Louis Bell, et al. [Jonas Brothers song]) --Blinding Lights (Abel Tesfaye [aka The Weeknd], Ahmad Balshe, et al.) --Hey! Baby (Margaret Cobb & Bruce Channel)
This is a different group than the Calgary Stampede Showband that competed in DCI's International Class in 2022 and 2023. This group is more like a U.S. high school festival band, albeit their woodwind parts were more challenging than you usually hear in such bands.
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