TRtrumpet Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 We are doing songs from GREASE. Read my signature for the songs. Im pretty exited about it because I have a saxophone solo. Quote
Trumpet Master Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 QUOTE (mbui @ Jun 22 2006, 09:41 PM) Clements HS is in Sugar Land, Texas....a suburb of Houston. They are in Region 13. Opps, nevermind then! Quote
TRflute Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 Quote iI got a saxaphone solo SO WHAT JACOB iI got a flute solo and ur saxaphone solo would not be posiable with out me! Take That Danny!!!!! Quote
TRtrumpet Posted July 15, 2006 Posted July 15, 2006 Haha yeah thats true but that also means your flute solo wouldent be possible without my sax solo... wait... this isnt a solo... its a duet! lol... well its kinda both. Quote
trumpetman1288 Posted July 17, 2006 Posted July 17, 2006 OK...I know I am supposed to keep our show a secret until we have our first contest, but I am curious to what a majority of you think, so I'll satisfy both crowds...I'll say our opener, which doesn't give away what our show is We are playing The Canyon....yes, the very same one that Santa Clara did for their opener in 1999 (I think ours is in a different key); however, we are going to "beef up" some of the parts with some more fun-filled drum parts, jumped chords (everyone goes a part up in the chord), and other little fillers we want to have. What do you think? I know some people don't like when bands march "DCI music," but it's very suiting to our theme this year...especially since our show had no theme last year, and not much of one the year before. Anyways, let me know what you think Quote
Trumpet Master Posted July 17, 2006 Posted July 17, 2006 QUOTE (trumpetman1288 @ Jul 17 2006, 03:54 PM) I am supposed to keep our show a secret That is kind of stupid. No offense, but why keep it a secret. I really don't think anybody will copy you're show concept or anything. And that is my 2 cents. Quote
trumpetman1288 Posted July 17, 2006 Posted July 17, 2006 Nah...I TOTALLY agree with that, and I do think it is stupid...but I agree at the same time for my director's reasoning behind it. Some people like to trash talk..simple as that. Granted, I am VERY against trash talk, so I don't worry about myself saying anything. I do, however, worry A GREAT DEAL about the younger guys that like to go on forums and say "YEAH!! WE ARE GOING TO MARCH ALL OVER YOU MAN!!" That is the kind of stuff our director wants to avoid...because then it eventually turns into an online battle and then that's how little rivalries get started, and then there is hostility between bands, which there really shouldn't be, because band should be a very friendly community. If you think I am making this up, I wish I could say otherwise. A little bit of an "unspoken" rivaly sparked between us and Harlingen after we won that contest last year. One of their guys wrote a rather hateful "song" about our band, one of our myspace addicts found it, then people from our band decided to comment on his "song." I mean...I understand the guy's anger and I really have no problem with his expression of it, but what got me was the people that responded to it, which were all juniors, people that should know better. But yeah...that's why our director wants us to keep things like that under wraps. I know that no one would steal our show concept because it's a little late for that anyways, but at the same time, I don't want someone from my band being a little rat and making this a bigger deal than it is...which shouldn't even be anything. So, anyways, what do you think of Canyon? Quote
TRtrumpet Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 I think its pretty awesome. I wish we did music like that. Quote
Trumpet Master Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Oh yeah, that song is awesome. And I understand where you're coming from. Hyping isn't that cool at all. Harlingen should have had some respect. So who do you think will advance from our Area? Quote
I<3thebox Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Eh well I think 4 people have already posted CP's show, Fire of Eternal Glory by Shostakovich at first I was little worried about it. The opener has really grown on me, the ballad isnt really a ballad - its very sparse and... idk I like rich velvety moving flowing grandiose BALLADS... so yeah lol. Closer - waiting so see just the actual FoEG is encoporated - worried about the rest of it cuz truthfully (in my opinion) there isnt a lot of "marching band" material in Symph 10 - and I overheard some design discussions and I'm just a little worried it might be a little repetitive. With that being said - I'm still super excited about the show, and I like the so-far unsaid idea behind it... Our Fire of Eternal Glory State 06 BABY! Quote
trumpetman1288 Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Trumpet Master said: So who do you think will advance from our Area? Honestly...that is a toughy. So much has changed since the last time it was a state year..some programs have come up, some have come down, and some have just remained the same. This is what I think area finalists will come down to though... Area G finalists (random order): Harlingen Harlingen South Brownsville Lopez La Joya Sharyland Edinburg Donna Victoria Memorial McAllen Edinburg North OTHER BANDS TO WATCH OUT FOR: Laredo United, PSJA North, Brownsville Rivera Another reason I think it is going to be a toughy is because we naturally are a lot more competitive with each other than with anyone else. Once a Valley band gets out of the Valley, most of them become timid. No doubt that a lot of the bands in the Valley play well...what kills us down here is that our visual package (drill, colorguard, etc) is very lacking, as well as show concepts. A lot of us at my school could not understand why we got last at state two years ago since we know we played the socks off of our music...but our show was VERY behind the times, a show that you would probably have competed with ten years ago. But yes....I think among those bands I listed, it is really up in the air. Area is a very different competition for the Valley than state is. Quote
Trumpet Master Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Bands really need to have a well rounded presenation. Something Harlingen HS does to well compared to other bands here in the valley. As does Lopez HS. Like this past year, your show had its columns. I was wondering, what those were about? Quote
trumpetman1288 Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Trumpet Master said: Like this past year, your show had its columns. I was wondering, what those were about? ROFL, with tears out of my eyes! THOSE columns....well, I'll just say that they were a VERY sad attempt to incorperate props into our show. In a sense, I think it was a good year to do so, and an even better year do something as unrelated to our show as those columns were. As to what purpose the columns actually had, your guess is as good as ours. Quick funny story about those columns though. One by one, they were disappearing after marching season was over. The directors couldn't figure out what it was. Then one day they see one of our trumpet players taking them on the back of his truck. Then next day, he showed me this video he and some other guys shot of the pillars being burned. It was FUNNY, they looked like giant candles and several guys did dances around them. Then the next day, the directors told the guys that they needed the pillars because they were being donated to some organization that needed them. Then you see this freaked out look on his face....good thing that the directors were just messing with him. Quote
mbui Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 Just wanted to say that I was a fan of Sharyland's show this past year. I saw you guys in Prelims at the BOA San Antonio Super Regional. The music is special to me since Santa Clara Vanguard 2000 is my favorite drum corps show of all-time. Quote
trumpetman1288 Posted July 18, 2006 Posted July 18, 2006 mbui said: Just wanted to say that I was a fan of Sharyland's show this past year. I saw you guys in Prelims at the BOA San Antonio Super Regional. The music is special to me since Santa Clara Vanguard 2000 is my favorite drum corps show of all-time. Thanks man..that really means a lot to know that someone actually took notice to our show. I like SCV 2000 as well. I guess it's just a shame that our video didn't come out too well because we heard from a lot of people that we played really well...but on our tape, all your hear is the front ensemble... Quote
Fortisimo Posted August 5, 2006 Posted August 5, 2006 Meus hortus est fraglans!!! And that's all I have to say right now about our show. Quote
Xenon Posted August 5, 2006 Posted August 5, 2006 Fortisimo said: Meus hortus est fraglans!!! And that's all I have to say right now about our show. Your garden is smelly? Quote
Fortisimo Posted August 5, 2006 Posted August 5, 2006 Not quite. I'll give you a hint- the language that that is in is dead. Quote
Xenon Posted August 5, 2006 Posted August 5, 2006 Fortisimo said: Not quite. I'll give you a hint- the language that that is in is dead. I know that it is Latin. But, in trying to be humorous I purposely neglected to take into account that Fragrans implies a sweet smell, not just any smell. With that in mind: - Meus (Masculine Adjective in the Nominative) = My (refering to Hortus) - Hortus (Masculine Noun in the Nominative) = Garden (This is the subject of the sentence) - Est (the present 3rd person of sum) = he/she/it is (The subject of this verb is Meus Hortus, but there is no object) - Fraglans (no such word that I can find, but Fragro conjugates to Fragrans as a Present Participle) = Smelling or Smelly (implies a sweet smell) (This modifies Est making "he/she/it is smelly" or "he/she/it is sweet smelling" or more loosely "he/she/it smells sweet") So, we get: 1. "My garden is smelly." 2. "My garden is sweet smelling." 3. "My garden smells sweet" Since you already shot down #1, I am going to assume that you mean #3. But if we want to start getting into interpretation, I guess you could say that you could take "garden" to mean "field" and "smells sweet" to just be "sweet" as in "sweeeeeeeeeet". So, you get "My field is sweet" which I guess could be interepreted as "What I am fielding is sweeeeeeeeet." Then you could take "What I am fielding" to mean "My show" and you get "My show is sweeeeeeeeet." The problem is that you used Meus (singular "My") instead of Mei (plural "Our"), so it can't be interpreted as "Our show is sweeeeeeeet." Quote
whitewing09 Posted August 5, 2006 Posted August 5, 2006 WOw that is like so confusing so was he saying his show is sweet or what Quote
Fortisimo Posted August 6, 2006 Posted August 6, 2006 *sigh* I didn't want to have to give this away so easily, but it seems you are hung up on olfactory ideas... fraglans is an adjective that means "flaming, fiery, hot, scorching... monstrous, burning" Quote
euro_euph06 Posted August 6, 2006 Posted August 6, 2006 Fortisimo said: *sigh* I didn't want to have to give this away so easily, but it seems you are hung up on olfactory ideas... fraglans is an adjective that means "flaming, fiery, hot, scorching... monstrous, burning" Does it have anything to do with Berstein's Candide? Just a guess.... Quote
Claritone Posted August 6, 2006 Posted August 6, 2006 Were playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Quote
whitewing09 Posted August 6, 2006 Posted August 6, 2006 Claritone said: Were playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. You from hendrickson or whatever? i saw yall at the westlake marching thingy last year Quote
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