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Post by tracciadiarmonia on Mar 10, 2007 2:00:00 GMT -5
my school aready did a show i would love to do before i got there. Rhapsody in Blue. we did robin hood this year, which was good, the drill was pretty kool, considering my band director made it crazy in the end thanks to his cavalier experience! in it 5 years, staff for percussion for 4. Just not many people cared about it so the sound was blehhh and the drill was sloppy in some places. now we'll have a marching band you have to audition for next year, and our show is based on flight, and he just recently showed us the opener. Amazing. Can't wait
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Post by oboehorn77 on Mar 10, 2007 17:28:24 GMT -5
Whoa, last year the other hs in our district did a show based on flight... I don't know what it was called. It was pretty cool I guess. At the end they had this rocket thing that they pulled out... it was this huge tarp I thing with a rocket on it and they somehow got smoke... it's been too long, and I only saw their show twice so I don't really remember. And this year our school did Rhapsody in Blue combined with Bohemian Rhapsody... I only saw it a couple times ( didn't do mb this year) but it was friggin' sweet! I have this vision of using some Rick Wakeman stuff but that's never going to happen.
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Post by ~*Not~a~Stalker~* on Mar 14, 2007 19:55:13 GMT -5
If I were a band director and had to pick a show for next year (2006), I think I would go with a Secret Agent theme since MI3 is coming out - plus Bond music is always good. So maybe: Opener: Mission Impossible theme Middle: Medley of TV spy shows - Get Smart/Man from UNCLE/Alias/The Avengers/Secret Agent Man Closer: James Bond Medley - Bond Theme/Live & Let Die The class thats now freshman in my school played secret agent man and teh Jams Bond Theme for concert band. They wore big black sunglasses for it. I would love to do like a night at the movies...Start off w/ some jazzy tune and have the gaurd carry around signs that say things like " Turn Off Your Cell Phones" and " Thanks For Choosing OUr Theatre". Then we could play like Star Wars and Jaws and other epic movie themes.
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Post by oobergeek on Mar 14, 2007 21:53:35 GMT -5
My ideal show would be titled "Best of the Beach" (Old Orchard Beach HS) It would be the three best songs from our gold medal years: Spain, Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans and Superman. That would be an awesome show. That or a John Williams show
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Post by piccophone on Apr 6, 2007 17:59:35 GMT -5
My dream has always been to do the song from THe Simpsons. I always thought it would be cool cuz we could have a brownish red couch on the field... we did that last year with the 8th graders, it was so fun but i've always wanted to do a Sousa show
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Post by NinjaBaker on Apr 6, 2007 18:57:51 GMT -5
I have always wished to play Phantom of the Opera someday
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Post by lightningflute2010 on Apr 13, 2007 15:23:35 GMT -5
I have always wished to play Phantom of the Opera someday That was my school's show last year. I think my top 3 choices for a show would be 1. Moulin Rouge 2. Nightmare Before Christmas 3. Phantom of the Opera Yes, I'm really jealous that they did Phantom last year.
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Post by ~*Not~a~Stalker~* on May 11, 2007 20:04:35 GMT -5
^ WE played the Overture of Nightmare before Christmas last year.
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Post by brassdancer on Jul 24, 2007 13:55:57 GMT -5
If anyone has ever heard of Supertramp, I think some of their music would translate excellent to the field.
The opener would be "Dreamer", with the pit opening up with the synth parts/keyboards, and the solo vocals would be a trumpet, and when the harmonization comes in, a baritone and mellophone join the solo. Then as the song builds I can see the drumline coming in, and the rest of the marching band is playing backfield, and then write in a huge hit (not in turn with the real song) and then continue .... a woodwind feature in the middle, and let the music kind of fade away with the "You can be anything you want, boy" part into ...
.."It's Raining Again", only slower and ballad-esque. The opening would have the signiture saxophone solo ... and then fade quickly into another pit build/perc feature with "Bloody Well Right" (Just when everyone thought the ballad was going to be slow and kind of heartwarming, they are greeted with a different type of ballad) Everything would be marched in halftime aside from the percussion feature/pit featurette with hornline hits and such, when the pit part (aka the piano part is over and the saxophones get into the normal melody) the saxes carry us into halftime, and present the song as a ballad ...
.. as half this song comes to a close the hornline turns around and plays the beginning of "Take the Long Way HOme" (with the harmonica solo, turned into saxophone solo/mellophone solo) and the band stops on the end chord of the opening of TLWH. Then the closer comes with "Goodbye Stranger".
I would LOVE to have someone arrange this for me when I have a marching band. I WOULD LOVE IT!
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Post by SaxGirl on Jul 24, 2007 17:28:51 GMT -5
well my dream show has always been West Sid Story, after playing in the pit for that frosh yr. But one of the bands in our circut did it this year,and it wasn't that good. So maybe not. I like anything that is upbeat, so lots of good rifle could be worked in I did West Side Story my freshman year. (Well, it also had Hoedown from Aaron Copland's Rodeo and Maurice Ravel's Bolero, but the meat of the show was Mambo and Dance in the Gym.) Mambo is such a fun song, but very challenging (I played sax back then and the runs were nuts). We did have some awesome guard work, though. That's funny you mention rifles - I think that is the only year that we've used them... Now that this thread has been brought back, I really have thought of my dream show. I actually proposed it to my BD (I set it up, made notes, wrote down drill ideas, provided CD examples and everything. He wanted band members to suggest things before he settled on Moulin Rouge.). A Sam Hazo show. I think I started it off with Ride, then transitioned into either Echoes or Perthshire Majesty for the ballad (preferably Echoes because it's a little faster and there would be no need for a saxophone solo of any kind, soprano or not), and then end with Exultate. My BD suggested that we would do Ride as the closer, but he eventually dropped it because Hazo's stuff is just so hard. At least the woodwind parts would be hard to transition onto the field. If anyone wants to hear Hazo on the field, though, I suggest listening for Ride in the Bluecoats' 2004 show, Mood Swings, or the Colts' 2006 show, Continuum.
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Post by brassdancer on Jul 24, 2007 20:22:30 GMT -5
A Sam Hazo show is also on my list of things I want my band to play. Throw in Olympiada (I think you guys did that a few years back) ooooooooh yeah.
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Post by SaxGirl on Jul 24, 2007 21:07:23 GMT -5
A Sam Hazo show is also on my list of things I want my band to play. Throw in Olympiada (I think you guys did that a few years back) ooooooooh yeah. Yep, two years ago; that actually worked quite well. I wish we could have done the full piece with the drum solo and the polyrhythms at the end (no one would have been able to figure those out ). But really, anything Hazo is amazing...
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Post by guticb on Nov 15, 2007 0:16:23 GMT -5
I REALLY want to play Rise and Fall of Rome.
We played Scheherazade this year, and it was AMAZING. Now we need something god to top it.
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Post by contraltoguard on Nov 15, 2007 11:10:06 GMT -5
Mario-themed!
Imagine a trombone solo to the underground theme of the old Mario games!
And the guard--dressed as plumbers-- could randomly pop out of those green pipes. XD
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2007 23:11:45 GMT -5
"Get Crunk"
Opener: Party Like a Rockstar Middle1: Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It Middle2: Crank Dat Soulja Boy Closer: Get Low
We may well do Nightmare. Either that or circus music (we march an accordion so that would be ba)
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