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The Kingsmen Senior Drum and Bugle Corps

2009 Field Show: "SHARKS/JETS 2009"
Featuring music from West Side Story
(Jet Song, America, Maria, Mambo and Somewhere. AKA: JAMMS!)

more info - http://xkingsmen.com

Hostrauser wrote:No way. I refuse to believe for one second that the Cavaliers will actually be doing some Don Ellis charts. The 93 Blue Devils hornline just laughed until they coughed up their spleens. This, I'm sure, will turn out to be another cheesy original music program. Gotta be.

Right?

oh quite the opposite..

http://www.cavaliers.org/seasons/current/program.html

Well, better than what I was expecting, at least. Still, that Ginastera piece has been done about 600 times in DCI this century, I'm getting a little tired of it.

Heard from insider (member) source that BD's reportoire will be based on 1930's jazz music.

crfrey71 wrote:Heard from insider (member) source that BD's reportoire will be based on 1930's jazz music.

Jazz?!!??! really???

malletphreak wrote:

crfrey71 wrote:Heard from insider (member) source that BD's reportoire will be based on 1930's jazz music.

Jazz?!!??! really???

I DONT BELIEVE IT!!!! HAHAHA

bigmikedrivesbmw wrote:

malletphreak wrote:

crfrey71 wrote:Heard from insider (member) source that BD's reportoire will be based on 1930's jazz music.

Jazz?!!??! really???

I DONT BELIEVE IT!!!! HAHAHA

I will believe when I see announcement...

What? BD has played jazz not too long ago, even from the 1930's era (see Summertime in their 2004 Summertrain Blues Mix)

That's the point. BD doing jazz is like saying, "well, the sun rose again today."

Not that I have a problem with that. I like BD being "the jazz corps" and Phantom being "the classical corps" and The Cadets generally being "the Americana corps."

I want to see Rockabilly performed by a drum corps one of these days. I cannot believe a corps has not tried this genre. The cadets have sort of tried it, but in my opinion, that isn't true rockabilly. Stuff along the lines of what Brian Setzer does.

Back in November, Hos said this...

Hostrauser wrote:So far, I have...

BLUECOATS - "Imagine"
Hmmm...

Their repertoire is now posted.

Directly from the Blue Devils Website ...

On the heels of the market crash of 1929 and standing at the gateway of the Great depression - 1930 was a year of complexity and contradiction. The contrast of an economic storm-front and the beauty of American optimism present a collage of the cultural unknown.

With an undeniable foot in the present, the 2009 Blue Devils take a look back at a year when faith and uncertainty were suddenly in a dance of the indefinite. To stand in the face of a tempest or take a seat in the dream of diversion, the artist and innovators of 1930 generated a broad emotional landscape. From the buoyancy of Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" to the multifarious "Piano Variations" of Aaron Copland, the Blue Devils offer a modern exploration of one single year. A year that would herald its number one popular song "Happy Days Are Here Again" and produced the future Judy Garland classic "Get Happy".

With the 2009 program "1930", the present and the past convene in a theatrical conversation of passion and exhilaration. Through unique visual and musical composition, the Blue Devils continue to showcase the world's most accomplished young performers as they travel the US offering a distinctive approach to contemporary drum and bugle corps.

Albert Einstein said, "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science". The year he made this profound statement? 1930.

HereIam wrote:Directly from the Blue Devils Website ...

On the heels of the market crash of 1929 and standing at the gateway of the Great depression - 1930 was a year of complexity and contradiction. The contrast of an economic storm-front and the beauty of American optimism present a collage of the cultural unknown.

With an undeniable foot in the present, the 2009 Blue Devils take a look back at a year when faith and uncertainty were suddenly in a dance of the indefinite. To stand in the face of a tempest or take a seat in the dream of diversion, the artist and innovators of 1930 generated a broad emotional landscape. From the buoyancy of Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" to the multifarious "Piano Variations" of Aaron Copland, the Blue Devils offer a modern exploration of one single year. A year that would herald its number one popular song "Happy Days Are Here Again" and produced the future Judy Garland classic "Get Happy".

With the 2009 program "1930", the present and the past convene in a theatrical conversation of passion and exhilaration. Through unique visual and musical composition, the Blue Devils continue to showcase the world's most accomplished young performers as they travel the US offering a distinctive approach to contemporary drum and bugle corps.

Albert Einstein said, "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science". The year he made this profound statement? 1930.

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Looks like my source was correct.

I am thinking it is gonna have sort of the same sound that we got from some of the 2002 program, "Jazz, Music made in America"

HereIam wrote:Directly from the Blue Devils Website ...

On the heels of the market crash of 1929 and standing at the gateway of the Great depression - 1930 was a year of complexity and contradiction. The contrast of an economic storm-front and the beauty of American optimism present a collage of the cultural unknown.

With an undeniable foot in the present, the 2009 Blue Devils take a look back at a year when faith and uncertainty were suddenly in a dance of the indefinite. To stand in the face of a tempest or take a seat in the dream of diversion, the artist and innovators of 1930 generated a broad emotional landscape. From the buoyancy of Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" to the multifarious "Piano Variations" of Aaron Copland, the Blue Devils offer a modern exploration of one single year. A year that would herald its number one popular song "Happy Days Are Here Again" and produced the future Judy Garland classic "Get Happy".

With the 2009 program "1930", the present and the past convene in a theatrical conversation of passion and exhilaration. Through unique visual and musical composition, the Blue Devils continue to showcase the world's most accomplished young performers as they travel the US offering a distinctive approach to contemporary drum and bugle corps.

Albert Einstein said, "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science". The year he made this profound statement? 1930.

09BDShow_web_600a.jpg

And once again, all is right in the world.