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- From: ddm@wpi.WPI.EDU (David D Marshall)
- Newsgroups: alt.drumcorps
- Subject: Re: Madison music
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 16:42:07 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- References: <92321.133532MHUGHES@MIAMIU.BITNET> <1e9lalINNjs@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <DRAPEAU.92Nov18125928@oglala.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <DRAPEAU.92Nov18125928@oglala.Stanford.EDU> drapeau@oglala.Stanford.EDU (George Drapeau) writes:
- >
- >I saw both the '88 and '89 Vanguard shows, albeit early in the season
- >and only once each, but from my paltry viewings, I found the '89 show
- >much improved. I don't believe that the Vanguard deserved to win in
- >'88, although I wasn't personally impressed with any of the 1988
- >shows. I'm happy for Madison, though.
- >
- >I saw Santa Clara in 1988 at the Costa Mesa show. My overall
- >impression of the show was that it was flat. There was just no
- >"punch" to the show, perhaps because the corps wasn't executing very
- >well. I remember being, dare I say it?, bored with the show (ouch!
- >Man alive, that's heresy). I remember by contrast seeing the Blue
- >Devils at the same show, and although I don't remember being too
- >impressed with the overall show design, they executed the hell out of
- >it. To me, they made up for a rather non-descript show with some
- >incredible execution (sorry, BD fans, I like the Devils, too, but I
- >just didn't care for that show too much). It was extremely clear who
- >would win the show that evening.
- >
- >The next year I saw SCV perform again. Everything about the show
- >seemed a little "brighter" to me. The show was being executed better,
- >the horns seemed louder (maybe "fuller" is a better word, although you
- >don't tend to think of post-1981 Vanguard horn lines as weak), the
- >percussion was happening (although they weren't my favorite Ralph
- >Hardimon parts, still very tasteful). The overall impression I had
- >was excellent, and an obvious change from the previous year. I don't
- >know what happened; maybe the writing was cleaned up (I haven't
- >listened to '88 and '89 back-to-back in a couple of years, so I don't
- >recall). Who knows?
-
- Maybe the reason that SCV seemed a little brighter in '89 was because all
- of the vets already had played most of that music last summer. They just
- had to learn the drill.
-
- >______________________________________________________________________________
- >George D. Drapeau Internet: drapeau@sioux.stanford.edu
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- >Stanford University
-
- --David
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