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- From: afo@apollo.HP.COM (Aaron Oppenheimer)
- Subject: Cadets '90 & repeats (was Re: Who REALLY won in 1988 - 1992?)
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:09:38 GMT
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- In article <DRAPEAU.92Nov18153940@oglala.Stanford.EDU>, drapeau@oglala.Stanford.EDU (George Drapeau) writes:
- |> 1990 no opinion, but I can't believe the Cadets won with a "Best of
- |> the Cadets" show. The idea of the (modern) Cadets doing a "Best
- |> of" show seems antithetical to the spirit of the corps to me. I
- |> lost a lot of respect for the corps because of this show. I'll
- |> get over it, I'm sure.
-
- I was very disappointed by this too. I remember Michael Cesario saying
- that the corps would never repeat itself sometime around '84 (of
- course, the corps had played West Side Story in the 70's, and also a
- few years after the show opened, around 1952. But it sure sounded
- different.) The show was OK, I guess, but it didn't thrill me.
-
- I don't really like 'repeat' or 'best of' shows in general, I guess.
- Maybe my attention span is too short, but if I've heard it before,
- basically the same, then I'm not interested. Short signature things are
- OK, but if it's an actual part of the *show* instead of just a coda,
- forget it. Lots of people may get excited at the thought of the Scouts
- rehashing 'Slaughter' or whatever but not me. I can listen to records.
-
- I also tend to think that it's not fair to the kids in the corps. Sure,
- music is music, but there will inevitably be comparisons to the last
- time the corps played the music, and who needs that?
-
- And, when you have the immense power to expose people to new (or old
- but as yet unperformed by D&BC) music, why would you *want* to repeat
- yourself?
-
- Then again, people pay to see the Ramones play the same set they've
- been playing for 20 years. Not me, though.
-
- -Aaron
-
- On the other hand, I can watch 'Dragnet' reruns for hours on
- Nickelodeon. Call me fickle.
-
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