Hitchcock in Drum Corps...
Nikk Pilato
Sigh....I didn't want to put this up because I wanted to someday
put this on the field if I ever became a program coordinator for some
corps, but how's this for an idea:
A Hitchcok Show (Music of course, by Bernard Herrmann)
Opener: Opening Scene of Vertigo
Middle: Main Theme from Psycho
"Murder Scene" from Psycho
"A Portrait of Hitch" by Herrmann (very cute dedication)
North by Nortwest/The Wrong Man
Closer: The Birds
Some drill forms to look for:
Birds attacking the color guard. :)
The famous Hitchcock profile (from his TV series). You could even play a
snippet of the "March of the Marionettes" theme from the TV show (Gounoud).
A knife with bloody red flags for the color guard.
A bi-plane chasing after Cary Grant. :) :) :) Or just a biplane. ;)
Well, you get the point. I'd love to see Phantom do it...they've
done Herrmann before (93 and 94) so it wouldn't be that much of a stretch.
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John Carollo
Nikk Pilato wrote:
>
> A Hitchcok Show (Music of course, by Bernard Herrmann)
Lone Star almost did this in 94. Visually we felt it would be great, but
musically we couldn't get it to work...many of the pieces sounded too much
like "atmosphere" music, so we did "Little Shop" instead, which was a better
fit for us.
John
Mark Sperry
have to be a silent drill--sounds like a Cadets move to me. :) One of
Herrmann's most brilliant pieces of scoring, ironically, was that he
chose not to score that sequence. How many composers (and directors)
would have made the same choice?
Birds attacking the guard? Didn't Suncoast do that the second time they
played "A Florida Suite?" :) Those damn seagulls...
A Herrmann/Hitchcock show would rock... but it really could be several
shows. There's enough varied music in each score to do an entire drum
corps show. Then, of course, there's his film scores without
Hitchcock... we might just have to make a one time only rules change to
allow electronics so you could get a theremin on the field for The Day
the Earth Stood Still. Or how about a Cape Fear show?
I can't believe drum corps has not explored this music more...
Mike Davis
>
> Sigh....I didn't want to put this up because I wanted to someday
>put this on the field if I ever became a program coordinator for some
>corps, but how's this for an idea:
>
>A Hitchcok Show (Music of course, by Bernard Herrmann)
>
I'm not sure, but I think I remember a number of years back the Bunell
HS band from Stratford Conn (band director Jim Miller) did a Hitchcock
show.
>Opener: Opening Scene of Vertigo
>Middle: Main Theme from Psycho
> "Murder Scene" from Psycho
> "A Portrait of Hitch" by Herrmann (very cute dedication)
> North by Nortwest/The Wrong Man
>Closer: The Birds
>
>
>Some drill forms to look for:
>
>Birds attacking the color guard. :)
>
Who plays Janet Leigh in the Psycho shower scene? :-)
(did someone whisper 'Spears'?) :-)
>The famous Hitchcock profile (from his TV series). You could even play a
>snippet of the "March of the Marionettes" theme from the TV show (Gounoud).
>
>A knife with bloody red flags for the color guard.
>
>A bi-plane chasing after Cary Grant. :) :) :) Or just a biplane. ;)
>
Or just Cary Grant. :-)
>
But how will the corps director make a cameo without the corps getting
DQ'ed for an overage member?
:-)
Mike
James C. Nevermann
> A Hitchcok Show
[snip]
> The famous Hitchcock profile (from his TV series). You could even play a
> snippet of the "March of the Marionettes" theme from the TV show
[snip]
> I'd love to see Phantom do it...
As a matter of fact, we DID do it in 1972 [see below].
We weren't established as "the classical music corps" yet [really, not
as ANY kind then: just "another corps"] so we did a mixed-bag of
mostly ghoulie/ghostie music to pick up on the name `Phantom'.
Opener: Rakozy March [from Faust]
Color Pres: Phantom Regiment March/America
1st Drum solo: Adams Family
Pre-Concert: Funeral March of a Marionette
Concert: Poet & Peasant Overature [not ghostie, but it was the piece
that steered us into the classical vein: we did it for two more years
after]
Post-Concert: Shot in the Dark
2nd Drum solo: no theme
Closer: Spellbound and short recap of PR March
--
Jim Nevermann
PR drum instructor: 72-75