Updated 95 Programs/03-19

[David MacDonald]

1995 Drumcorp Programs
(03-19-95)
DISCLAIMER
Corps music and themes are very tentative and subject to change
at this early stage in the season. This list is what has been captured on ramd
and is dependent on corps staff/members reporting. If data comes from other
sources it will be so noted. (e.g. DCW:2/95 = Drum Corp World Feb. issue)
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Academie Musicale
Theme:
Music: selections from "Empire of the Sun" from J. Williams
Americanos
Theme: Carnival in Brazil
Music:
(DCW:2/95)
Arizona Sun
Theme: The Circle of Life
Music: music from "The Lion King"
Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights
Theme:
Music: National Emblem
America
Free Again
In the Still of the Night
Procession of Baccus
Great Gate of Kiev
Elanor Rigby
Strike Up the Band
(DCW:2/95)
Blue Devils
Theme:
Music: Movement 1 - Carpe Nox (Sieze the Night) a combo of
Maynard's "Conquistador" and Vince Mendoza's "Jazz Pana"
Movement 2 - from "The Legend of Alcobasa"
DCI Today
Theme: Carpe Nax (Seize the Night)
Music: Jazz Pana - Vince Mendoza/Conquistador
- Jay Chattaway/Coronation of the Dead Queen
(movement 4 of "The Legend of Alcobasa")
Ines (movement 2 of "The Legend of Alcobasa")
No Heroes - Manteca/Commencement - Johnny Richards/
Caribe - Michel Camilo
selection TBA
Blue Stars
Theme:
Music: Armenian Dances - Alfred Reed
Liturgical Dances
Blue Knights
Theme: Legacy - James Mack/Ramsey Lewis
Music: Legacy - a piece for solo piano, jazz band, and orchestra
Bluecoats
Theme: Homefront:1945 (50th Anniversary of end of World War II)
Five themes: Home Front, Shippin' Out, Letter from Home,
Newsreel, and Celebration.
Music: Come Rain or Come Shine
I'll Be Seeing You
Sing, Sing, Sing
DCI TODAY
Music: Come Rain or Come Shine
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
I'll Be Seeing You
selection TBA
Boston Crusaders
Theme: music of Pat Metheny
Music: Are We There Yet? (opener)
Beat 70
Cathedral in a Suitcase
First Circle
(Update:DCW-2/95)
Bluegrass Brass
Theme: Jazz & big band, late 40's, early 50's era
Music: Is You Is
Fever (R&B/Jazz classics)
Beautiful Maria of My Soul (J. Pizzarilli, L. Rose)
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Bushwackers
Theme:
Music: from Paul Hindimith & Leonard Bernstein
Maties de Mahler
Age of Angxiety
Caballeros
Theme:
Music: Maleguenia
Spanish Fantasy
Rodrigo (2nd movement of Concierto de Aranjuez)
Rumps (Espana Cani)
Cadets of Bergen County
Theme: Fourth of July - show music by John Williams
Music: The Reivers
ballad from "Born on the Fourth of July" (third movement)
a piece from Far & Away
Swing, Swing, Swing (from movie 1941)
closing with a dark mysterious piece
DCI Today
Theme: An American Quintet - J. Williams
Music: The Rievers
Born on the 4th of July
Swing, Swing, Swing (from "1941")
Blowing Off Steam (from "Far and Away")
Land Race (from "Far and Away")
Carolina Crown
Theme: Stormworks
Music: Stormworks by Stephen Melillo
Watermark by Enya
selection TBA
selections from "The Abyss" - Alan Sylvestri
(changes based on DCI Today)
Cavaliers
Theme: The Planets - Gustav Holst
Music: Mars
Venus
Mercury
Jupiter
Colts
Theme: "Sunday in the Park with George" - S. Sondheim
Music: Sunday in the Park (title song)
Children and Art
Color & Light (drum solo)
Sunday
(changes based on DCI Today)
Crossmen
Theme:
Music: opener - The Overture for "School for Scandal" by S. Barber
Symphony for Brass & Percussion by Alfred Reed
Empire Statesmen
Theme:
Music: Caravan
Sing, Sing, Sing
Moonlight Serenade
Glassmen
Theme:
Music: Little Fugue in G Minor - Bach (possible drillwork)
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach (original style)
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee - Ludwig vanB. (original style)
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach (syncopated arrangement)
A Mighty Fortress - Bach
(DCI Today lists 2, 3, and 5 only)
Illusion
Theme: Welcome to our Nightmare
Music: Brahms Lullabye
Night on Bald Mountain
Time Warp
Eerie drum feature
Jersey Surf
Theme:
Music: Within Attraction - Yanni
Anthems - Paul Winter
Kiwanis Kavaliers
Theme: Tribute to Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays
Music: First Circle (from The First Circle CD)
Have You Heard ( from Letter From Home album)
In Her Family (from Still Life Talking)
Beat 70 (drum feature)
Minuano (closer)
Note: last two reported by Trevor Dinger:RAMD
Lone Star
Theme:
Music: centers around David Holsinger's "On the Grand Prarie Texas"
(DCW:2/95)
Madison Scouts
Theme:
Music: El Toro Caliente (The Horny Bull) based on many Spanish themes
Concerto de Aranjuez - 2nd Movement - J. Rodrigo
La Danza Pasillo - "The Aisle Dance" (a drum solo)
Malaga (new and improved) - B. Holman
Magic of Orlando
Theme: Original pieces about certain animals (Robert Smith)
"Danse Animale" a movement symphony based on the animal
qualities of humans.
Music: Movement I - Sea
Movement II - Land
Movement III - Sky
Mandarins
Theme:
Music: selections by composers M. Mancina & P. Doyle
Marion Cadets
Theme: Jazz
Music: Fever
Begin the Beguine
Makin' Whoopee
On Bended Knee
(DCW:2/95)
Marauders
Theme:
Music: This Moment On (from "Kiss Me Kate") - C. Porter
selection TBA
I Love You Porgy (from "Porgy and Bess") - G. Gershwin
Mighty St. Joe's
Theme: Best of 60's Drum Corps
Music: "One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story (arragement by
Ed Cozzolino)
"76 Trombones" (arrangement by Don Allen)
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" (arrangement by Truman Crawford
& Don Allen)
"If My Friends Could See Me Now" from Sweet Charity
(arrangement by Al "Corky" Fabrizio)
"Big Spender" from Sweet Charity (arrangement by Don Allen)
"Bully", as made famous by the Chicago Cavaliers
(arrangement by Don Allen)
"Battle Hymn of the Republic" (arrangement by Truman
Crawford & Don Allen)
"Lassus Trombones" a St. Joe's Classic from the 60s
(arrangement by Don Allen)
"Old Lang Syne", a universal drum corps song made famous
by the Kilties (arrangement by Ken Norman)
Minnesota Brass
Theme: Jazz style theme
Music: My Old Kentucky Home
Production from Dallas Brass' fusion jazz group Windstorm
entitled St. Thomas
Closer - New York State of Mind
New York Skyliners
Theme: An Evening on the Town
Music: Vignettes of Old Skyliners Numbers:
On the Town
Mood Dance
Dream Girls
New York, New York
Signature
(DCW:2/95)
Nite Express
Theme: symphonic works from the rock group YES
Music: Roundabout
Circus of Heaven
Close to the Edge (The Solid Time of Change, Total Mass
Retain, I Get Up I Get Down, Seasons of Man)
North Force
Theme: African inspired jazz rhythms
Music: Gulu Matoria by Quincy Jones
African Waltz by Cannonball Adderly
an origianl percussion feature by percussion caption head
Ryan McCarthy
(DCW:2/95)
Northern Aurora
Theme: Keys to Imagination - Yanni at the Acropolis
Music: Keys to Imagination/Santorini
Reflections of Passion
Northmen
Theme:
Music: Into the Woods - Sondheim
Pacific Crest
Theme: music from Metroscape (composed by Dale Leaman)
Music: Double Lattes & the LA Times
Heavy Traffic Reported
Bottom Rung of the Corporate Ladder
Alternate Route Suggested
Back Home
Phantom Regiment
Theme: music by Rachmaninoff
Music: Capriccio Bohemian - opening statement
Symphonic Dances - Third Movement
Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
Men's Dance from "Aleko"
Capriccio Bohemien - final statement
Pioneer
Theme: Shades of the Emerald
Music: Diamond Dance (from CD Celtic Twilight - Hearts of
Space - track #3)
Year of the Comet (from motion picture soundtrack - VSD -
track #16)
Cowboy Jig / Gary Owen (Cowboy Jig from ND track #4)
(DCI Today replaces last selection with: Enya Collection
- from "Shepard Moon")
Quad City Knights
Theme: Selections from broadway musical Sunset Boulevard by
Andrew Lloyd Weber
Music:
Raiders (NJ)
Theme: music from "A Chorus Line"
Music: I Hope I Get It
Who Am I?
At The Ballet
The Music In the Mirror
What I Did For Love
One
Rochester Patriots
Theme:
Music: Jubilance Overture - (from Arrangers Publishing Concert
Band tape)
A Gaelic Blessing - John Rutter
All Things Bright and Beautiful - J. Rutter
Sinfonia Vocci - David Holsinger
Royal Columbians
Theme: Evolutionary Dances
Music: "Pagan Dances" - movement 3 by James Barnes
"Arabian Dance" from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
"Dance Panels" - movement 5 by A. Copland
"Country Gardens" - set by Grainger
"O Clap Your Hands" - by Rutter
Visual: based on two paintings by Henri Matisse...."Music" & "Dance"
Santa Clara Vanguard
Theme: The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
Music:
Seattle Cascades
Theme: music from Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Music: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
Funeral for a Friend
Candle in the Wind
Reprise
Senator (DCUK)
Theme: (show based on 82,83,86 Cadets show)
Music: Rocky Point Holiday
Largo from "On The Waterfront"
West Side Story
Simple Song (closer)
Southwind
Theme: Gospel/Jazz style
Arranger: Chris Howard
Music: Precious Lord
Jericho
O'Happy Day
Sweet, Sweet Spirit
Spartans (Nashua, NH)
Theme: Roman (40th anniversary - back to their roots)
Music: Bacchanale
music from Ben Hur
Spirit of Atlanta
Theme: Tradition, Innovation and Exploration...A Southern State
of Mind
Music: selections from "Glory" and "Gettysburg"
selections from "Fried Green Tomatoes"
selections from "Colors" - M. Torke
Suncoast Sound
Theme: Christian music
Music: Make His Praise Glorious - Sandi Patti
Sunrisers
Theme: Dvorak's "New World Symphony"
Music:
(DCW:3/95)
Troppers
Theme: music by Aaron Copland
Music: Appalachian Spring
3rd Symphony - 4th Movement
Velvet Knights
Theme: Visual show based upon "Harlequin Carnival" by John Miro
Music: Lua Flora
Starfish
Tanacara
Westshoremen
Theme: Agressive Jazz
Music: Suite for Jazz Orchestra (opener)
Spirit of St. Fredrick
Strawberry Soup
Yankee Rebels
Theme:
Music: Shenandoah
Rock-A-Bye
Am I Blue
I've Got A Right to Sing the Blues
Row, Row, Row
Requiem For An Era
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
Dixie
(DCW:3/95)
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1995 Youth Musical Ensemble
Star of Indiana/Canadian Brass
Music: **"Marriage of Figaro" - W.A. Mozart
"Renaissance Dances" - T. Susato
**"Young Person's Guide" - B. Britten
Percussion Feature (original compositions)
"Flight of the Bumblebee" - N. Rimsky-Korsakov
**"Pictures at an Exhibition" - M. Mussorgsky
"Appalachian Spring" - A. Copland
"Porgy & Bess" (Canadian Brass Feature) - G. Gershwin
"Pachelbel Canon" - J. Pachelbel
"Mood Indigo"
"Sophisticated Lady"
"Doesn't Mean a Thing"
**"Adagio" - Barber
**"El Salon Mexico" - Copland
Percussion feature (Original arrangements)
"West Side Story" - L. Bernstein
Encores: "Swing Swing Swing"
"Saints Hallelujah"
**"When You Wish Upon a Star"
(** - confirmed by Dorocke)

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