No. 10 - N.E. Brigand - 11/14/2022
Nov 18, 2022 6:36:35 GMT -6
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Post by Allohak on Nov 18, 2022 6:36:35 GMT -6
A little lost in the shuffle of GN, but not to go unrecognized, congratulations to N.E. Brigand on reaching the 1,000 post mark!
N.E. Brigand is our resident OMEA and DCA expert, a true proponent of all bands, not just those who travel to compete at the highest levels. A fan of band, in the way we should all aspire to be, taking pleasure and enjoyment from groups scoring in the 50s (or lower) as well as those attaining near-100 marks.
N.E. Brigand has been an amateur musician for most of his life, having sung and played a variety of early wind and percussion instruments as a child in a family band that performed at Renaissance fairs and the like, thus getting a couple years' head start on the recorder lessons that all fourth graders in his northeast Ohio school district got in music class more than 40 years ago. He started on clarinet in fifth grade before switching to bassoon starting in the eighth grade for concert band and then tuba for high school marching band; he continued on the latter in college marching band (and one semester of concert band) in southwest Ohio. His high school band had qualified for Ohio's "state finals" for the first time in his freshman year, but if any video of that event survives, it will reveal a lone sousaphone player -- said by the director to look positively green when seen up close -- wobbly being escorted to the back sideline to sit down just before the performance started; shortly afterward, it was found that NEB had pneumonia. Now he plays only the tuba, in a local community band for concerts at nursing homes. Having become seriously interested again in the marching arts after seeing the cinema showing of Phantom Regiment's "Spartacus" show in 2008, he began following first drum corps and then marching bands more closely over the next few years. Apart from the pandemic years, he's attended every DCI Open Class Finals and DCA Finals since 2012 and all four (or five) days of OMEA's state finals every year since 2014 -- but he's never been to BOA's Grand Nationals, and he's only twice attended DCI's World Class Finals. He joined the old MFA forums in 2014 and migrated here in 2019. He works behind the scenes in the theater industry. As suggested by his nickname, NEB is a huge fan of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, which led to him authoring several items published in the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia and the annual journal, Tolkien Studies. Many years ago, he went for a 2,000 mile walk in the woods, and he also revealed his ignorance of New York City to the late Alex Trebek, which cost him dearly.
N.E. Brigand is our resident OMEA and DCA expert, a true proponent of all bands, not just those who travel to compete at the highest levels. A fan of band, in the way we should all aspire to be, taking pleasure and enjoyment from groups scoring in the 50s (or lower) as well as those attaining near-100 marks.
N.E. Brigand has been an amateur musician for most of his life, having sung and played a variety of early wind and percussion instruments as a child in a family band that performed at Renaissance fairs and the like, thus getting a couple years' head start on the recorder lessons that all fourth graders in his northeast Ohio school district got in music class more than 40 years ago. He started on clarinet in fifth grade before switching to bassoon starting in the eighth grade for concert band and then tuba for high school marching band; he continued on the latter in college marching band (and one semester of concert band) in southwest Ohio. His high school band had qualified for Ohio's "state finals" for the first time in his freshman year, but if any video of that event survives, it will reveal a lone sousaphone player -- said by the director to look positively green when seen up close -- wobbly being escorted to the back sideline to sit down just before the performance started; shortly afterward, it was found that NEB had pneumonia. Now he plays only the tuba, in a local community band for concerts at nursing homes. Having become seriously interested again in the marching arts after seeing the cinema showing of Phantom Regiment's "Spartacus" show in 2008, he began following first drum corps and then marching bands more closely over the next few years. Apart from the pandemic years, he's attended every DCI Open Class Finals and DCA Finals since 2012 and all four (or five) days of OMEA's state finals every year since 2014 -- but he's never been to BOA's Grand Nationals, and he's only twice attended DCI's World Class Finals. He joined the old MFA forums in 2014 and migrated here in 2019. He works behind the scenes in the theater industry. As suggested by his nickname, NEB is a huge fan of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, which led to him authoring several items published in the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia and the annual journal, Tolkien Studies. Many years ago, he went for a 2,000 mile walk in the woods, and he also revealed his ignorance of New York City to the late Alex Trebek, which cost him dearly.
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