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2017 Bands of America Grand Nats Semifinalists

37 Bands - 22 from Thursday, 15 from Friday Union High School (Tulsa, OK)

William Mason HS (Mason, OH)

Broken Arrow HS (Broken Arrow, OK) 

Castle HS (Newburgh, IN) 

Fishers HS (Fishers, IN)

Marcus HS (Flower Mound, TX)

Centreville Jazz Band (Centerville, OH)

Owasso HS (Owasso, OK) 

Center Grove HS (Greenwood, IN)

O'Fallon Township (O'Fallon, IL)

Winston Churchill HS (San Antonio, TX)

Dobyns Bennett (Kingsport, TN)

The Woodlands (The Woodlands, TX)

North Hardin HS (Radcliffe, KY)

Carmel HS (Carmel, IN)

Blue Springs HS (Blue Springs, MO)

Avon HS (Avon, IN)

Homestead HS (Ft. Wayne, IN)

Fort Mill HS (Fort Mill, SC)

Round Rock HS (Round Rock, TX)

Flower Mound HS (Flower Mound, TX) 

Plymouth Canton Education Park HS (Canton, MI)

Franklin HS (Franklin, TN)

Marian Catholic HS (Chicago Heights, IL) 

Walton HS (Marietta, GA)

Archbishop Alter HS (Kettering, OH)

Desoto Central HS (Southaven, MS)

Genesen HS (Genesen, MI) 

Beechwood HS (Ft. Mitchell, KY)

Adair County HS (Columbia, KY)

Bassett HS (Bassett, VA)

James F. Byrnes (Duncan, SC)

Lawrence Township HS (Indianapolis, IN) 

Norton HS (Norton, OH)

Central Hardin HS (Cecilia, KY) 

Prosper HS (Prosper, TX)

Miliana HS (Mililani, HI)

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playing with the gif function 🏳😇 p. II

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*cries hard*

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Fact: Brass players are embalmed and mummified in valve oil after their death.

It is an unwritten law, set down by John Phillip Sousa.

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Bluecoats did it better...

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“Drum Major, is your band ready?”

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Whoever made this is a genius.

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Ok

the holy trinity

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Me: sits in practise room quietly, looking at sheet music Pianist next door: suddenly starts playing fortissimo Beethoven right next to the wall I’m leaning against Me: dies from shock and ascends to heaven, where Beethoven is waiting to laugh at me

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My accompanist: This piece needs a story. Think of someone you are in love with and you can't wait to see.

Me, an aromantic: ...okay. *plays again beautifully*

My accompanist: What were you thinking about while you were playing, if you don't mind me asking?

Me: I love to eat. I was thinking about the perfect meal.

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Kaligrafik Enstrümanlar - I

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I dont understand how mallet percussionists in the pit do those crazy runs like do you guys actually think about every individual key that you’re hitting or do you just move your mallets rapidly in one general direction and hope that it’ll work out

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Thanks for all the greatness you have given us in 2016, DCI. Here’s to another year of valuable lessons and amazing performances.

Happy New Year everyone!

(these pictures are not mine and were found on each corp’s facebook page)

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Wanna March drum corps?

Potentially! I know some of our followers might!

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Where's everyone marching this season? Does anyone have open spots?

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World champs 💍🍁

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a compilation of some of my favourite composer quotes:

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”  - Igor Stravinsky

“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.” - Edvard Grieg 

“Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them.” - Richard Strauss

“He’d be better off shovelling snow than scribbling on manuscript paper.” - Richard Strauss on Schoenberg

“I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.” - Ludvig van Beethoven

“I have written a chorale both sober and suitable. In it I have put everything I know about boredom. I dedicate this to those who do not like me.” - Erik Satie

“ Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.” - Gioacchino Rossini

“What a good thing this isn’t music.” - Gioacchino Rossini on Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique 

“Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!” - Gioacchino Rossini

“In opera there is always too much singing.” - Claude Debussy

“Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!” - Johann Sebastian Bach

“Listening to the 5th Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.” - Aaron Copland 

“The audience expected something big, something colossal, but they were served instead with some agitated water in a saucer.” - Louis Schnieder on Debussy’s La Mer

“He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.” - Clara Schumann on Liszt 

“What a giftless bastard!” - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on Brahms

“Handel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting.” - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Bach on the wrong notes” -  Sergei Prokofiev on Stravinsky 

And, saving the best for last…

“Lick my ass up and down” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

Feel free to add more! (Also please don’t think that I agree with all of these, I am a huge fan of Symphonie Fantastique and La Mer!!)