Favorite Shows of 2007

[JustAddWat3r]

  takigan said:

They must have someone up at BOA HQ keeping on the lookout for copies that might pop up on Youtube. I don't get why they didn't get on that last year with "the Remaining".

 

Speaking of which, that video has clocked in 31,000+ views on Youtube since it was put up!

 

 

1000 of those views were mine XD

 

lol

 

 

oh and btw, mansfield's show was entitled "Moving Foward" =)

Edited November 21, 2007 by JustAddWat3r

[T-ratbowieband]

was Pan's Labyrinth the movie with David Bowie in it?

[Fata1]

  T-ratbowieband said:

was Pan's Labyrinth the movie with David Bowie in it?

No. It's a Spanish film.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan's_Labyrinth

Edited November 21, 2007 by Fata1

[bluebellbrass07]

Oh, the lick from the end of Bell 04 isn't actually in the orginal piece Blue Cathedral. I guess its kind of a play on the melody from earlier in the piece.

[thePIXELelement]

  mbui said:

My favorites Texas shows of the year.....

Brazoswood HS - "Rain"

Just a well thought out musical package. The intro from "The Passion of the Christ" did it for me. Very emotional.

Clear Brook HS - "RePercussion"

They played two of my favorite John Mackey pieces---Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night & Turbine.

L.D. Bell HS - "TRANSCENDents"

A musical and visual production. Everything about the show was gorgeous.

Mansfield HS - "Music of Eric Whitacre & Imogen Heap/Frou Frou" (can't remember the title for the life of me)

Any show that combines Whitacre's "Lux Aurumque" and music from Imogen Heap and Frou Frou will be one of my favorites.

Marcus HS - "Botanika"

I really enjoyed Marcus' show this year. My highlight of the program was during their ballad from Leonard Bernstein's "Make Our Garden Grow."

Richland HS - "iShow"

Great musical and visual design. Not only were the John Mackey and Karl Jenkins pieces fantastic but the color guard was as well.

Stephen F. Austin HS - "Mass: A Piece for Players and Dancers"

An emotional, classy, elegant, and beautiful show using music from Leonard Bernstein's "Mass". One of my favorites of the year.

The Woodlands HS - "Sequenza"

A well thought out show and I love how they incorporated Philip Glass' music from "Einstein on the Beach" and "The Hours" with Bernstein's "Profonation."

Westfield HS - "One"

I loved the music to the and how they used "One" concept in their music and throughout the show. I also liked the color guard uniforms where it had the word "One" written in all different languages.

 

I think Mansfield show is called Moving Forward...

[b_sax_agent]

I liked Woodlands and LD Bells.

 

which is funny because I usually don't like LD Bell shows.

 

The Woodlands had the best arrangement for Profanation ever.

 

R. Reagen can't compete with their 05 arrangement

[urkadrums]

  T-ratbowieband said:

was Pan's Labyrinth the movie with David Bowie in it?

 

yeah, you're thinking of a movie called Labyrinth that came out in 1986.

It has nothing to do with Pan's Labyrinth or LD Bell's show.

[MthsTrumpetsDOItBetter]

  borchnork said:

oh, I forgot two bands!

 

~Mansfield Timberview!!!!!!

~Plano Senior, loved the jazz and swing, and I normally don't like that kind of music.

 

Thanks!

:]

 

Did you guys play the exibition at the Frisco contest?

Because who ever did exibition there was good.

[radchad]

Haha. Which ever way you want to look at it, Marcus still had a great show, easy drill or not.

 

For some reason, I just wasn't a fan of Westfield's show. And that's weird because I play Euphonium. Haha.

[borchnork]

  MthsTrumpetsDOItBetter said:

Thanks!

:]

 

Did you guys play the exibition at the Frisco contest?

Because who ever did exibition there was good.

 

yah that was us.

 

I was Timberview's guide at Pre-lims during that contest.

 

 

 

and I can firmly say now that Bell's show is one of my favorites of all time. I finally saw the video on youtube. GAH! I WISH I COULD HAVE SEEN IT LIVE! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AMAZING! (not like it wasn't already... but to get the sound live in person would have given me major chills)

Edited November 21, 2007 by borchnork

[JustAddWat3r]

i really enjoyed creekview's show. although it was relatively easy, it was performed very well. the whole puppet theme was genious.

[Trumpet of Doom]

My favorite intro all year was probably Brazoswood's, no matter how many times I watch it I just feel the emotion in their music.

[marcomac29]

  jacobs-latter said:

Also, when you play harder than crap music the whole show, doesn't that make the drill ten times as difficult?

 

 

no.

[radchad]

  marcomac29 said:

no.

 

I'll agree with Brandt.

That is definitely a no.

 

You could march 8 to 5 the whole show just doing straight lines and boxes, and no matter how hard the music is, that drill is still freaking easy.

 

 

Now if your drill is hard and you play hard music, it being harder just means you need to practice more. :]

[longhornsax]

  radchad said:

I'll agree with Brandt.

That is definitely a no.

 

You could march 8 to 5 the whole show just doing straight lines and boxes, and no matter how hard the music is, that drill is still freaking easy.

Now if your drill is hard and you play hard music, it being harder just means you need to practice more. :]

 

yah, but it becomes a lot harder to march in a straight line when your playing "harder than crap music" you've gotta admit. I mean, we can all (well...almost all) march in a straight line if we're playing whole notes, but if your marching in a straight line and playing flight of the bumblebee or something, it becomes so much harder to march in a straight line. your thoughts are on other things...

 

But i see your point...

[oDesign]

  radchad said:

I'll agree with Brandt.

That is definitely a no.

 

You could march 8 to 5 the whole show just doing straight lines and boxes, and no matter how hard the music is, that drill is still freaking easy.

Now if your drill is hard and you play hard music, it being harder just means you need to practice more. :]

 

eh, I dont know.

From my own personal experiences, playing hard music definatly makes the marching harder, regardless of how difficult the actual drill is.

In my band, we do run throughs of our shows where we just count the show, and sometimes run throughs where we just sing, no playing.

After we do those types of runs, and then we do a run where we play the whole show, the marching is a about ten times more difficult.

 

Of course, the same argument could be made on the opposite side of this issue:

If you march really hard drill, doesn't that make the music ten times harder?

 

this, i also see as a yes.

[whitewing09]

well if you wanna get literal...having really hard music doesnt make the drill harder... it just makes the performing cleanly harder

[radchad]

So that small section from Blue Cathedral isn't in the actual piece?

That part is amazing.

 

I have show concepts lined up with that section in it. :[

[GARRETTxFLOWERS]

  JustAddWat3r said:

i really enjoyed creekview's show. although it was relatively easy, it was performed very well. the whole puppet theme was genious.

 

It was relatively easy because the directors came up with the concept in one week and then wrote the music in two weeks. So that's why it was easy because they didn't want to pile everything on us. THANK YOU so much for the compliment though! Next year is going to be better because they now know our capabilities and can come up with harder music and drill for us.

[radchad]

Well, to explain what I meant a little further..

 

My senior year our drill was pretty hard.

The music didn't make the drill harder. It made playing harder because so much energy and breathing was used on the drill.

By the end of the show, it was extremely hard to play, not exactly to march the drill.

 

I see what you're saying. Sorry I made myself sound like I was in the right. ;[

 

 

How is playing hard music while marching in a straight line different from easy music in a straight line?

I mean, no matter what you play it's still just a straight line. (Trying to get to the bottom of this. Haha. Sorry to keep it going.)

[oDesign]

Well, when your marching in a straight line, your doing more than simply just that.

Your also guiding spacing, files, company fronts, diagonals, all that good stuff.

I know when Im doing fundementals, even though we're all going in a straight line, it requires ALOT of focus to maintain all the spacing and such, one moment of distraction can put you half a step being your company front, messing up the whole form behind you. Straight lines and blocks in a straight path may seem easy, but they're very exposed. The smallest error is visible.

So when your playing, that distracts away from that sort of focus.

The less you have to focus on the music, the more you can focus on those things, and vice versa.

 

haha, does that make sense?

[treblemaker]

I just have one question.

 

Could someone please tell me what the flute player from Clear Brook who stood on that thingy was supposed to symbolize.

 

I saw their show at BOA Houston and I saw her get set up there and I watched her thinking she was going to whip out this bada** solo but all she did was stand there at attention and then got off at the end of the show.

 

Just wondering..

[jd2012]

my favorite was definitly bell's 100%, when you see it live the dynamics added such an effect, simply awesome...

[marcomac29]

  oDesign said:

Well, when your marching in a straight line, your doing more than simply just that.

Your also guiding spacing, files, company fronts, diagonals, all that good stuff.

I know when Im doing fundementals, even though we're all going in a straight line, it requires ALOT of focus to maintain all the spacing and such, one moment of distraction can put you half a step being your company front, messing up the whole form behind you. Straight lines and blocks in a straight path may seem easy, but they're very exposed. The smallest error is visible.

So when your playing, that distracts away from that sort of focus.

The less you have to focus on the music, the more you can focus on those things, and vice versa.

 

haha, does that make sense?

 

well yeah but like... i guess what i was saying, is that most bands now... will just kinda... stand there and then they'll do a 4/5 move to the right... then they'll stand there and do one of those jam things where the band is playing loud and dancing like it's jazz. Then they move again, and hold in another unneseccary part... idk though

 

 

i think they should push it, whether the music is hard or not.

 

I mean... like our band can play flight of the bumble bee... sitting down in concert season... That's no different than standing there in a uniform playing it. If you put it out on the marching field, you should be able to march it also. I don't want to go to a contest to see a band stand there and do easy drill where they face their move every time...(yes their are some). Most bands i see it's just a lot of holding and moving in a box, that will occasionally rotate.

 

I'm not trying to diss any bands in saying this, but I love MARCHING band. Our director writes our drill, and he makes it (sad to say) way too hard. There are some people that can't do it, but it's challenging, demanding, and tiring... and i love it.

 

There's some bands this year that will hold over half of their show! And i'm not exhaggerating!

 

 

K. i'm done.

 

 

oh and i tried not to single out any bands... and i'm pretty sure i got way off topic, but yeah keep this going, i'm interested also.

[bonepit06-07]

guys lets not leave out the 4A's and under rated 5A's

 

Connally

Hendrickson

Berkner

Poteet

 

they all had cool shows

 

and so did the ones already mentioned

 

LD BELL OF COURSE

Westfield

Churchill

Reagan