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Plano East HS (Plano, TX) "1000 Cranes" Featuring: 1000 Cranes by Robert Sheldon Marimba Spiritual by Minoru Miki (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) 1000 Airplanes on the Roof by Phillip Glass Princeton HS (Princeton, TX) "Waves" Part 1: Water Waves Le Mer- Debussy The Moldeau- Smetana Part 2: Sound Waves The Abyss- Silvestri Part 3: Light Waves Bizarro- Daugherty Part 4: New Waves Wine, Dark Sea Mvt. III- Mackey

Polarity + (Simply awesome design and music) One Love - (Sorry Reagan) All Hallows Eve 9 One Love 8 En Pointe 8 Twist Fate 7 Unchartered Waters 13 The 4th Dimension 15 On the Waterfront 15 Leonardos Dream 20 In the Garden of Cosmic Speculation 7 Just Another Brick 6 Sense of Direction 6 Steadfast Tin Soldier 5 Proddigy 12 Fractured Moments 10 Us and Them 11 Testament 9 Symphony of Silence 15 Sculpt 18 Forest Thru the Trees 16 The Wanderer 8 Change is the Only Constant 7 Synapse 11 Polarity 6 Tremendous Sea of Love 9 Lost and Found 15 Endeavor 13 Loop 17 Pop 17

FlashDance - (eliminated [love the school, didn't like the show]) Leo's Dream + All Hallows Eve 9 One Love 9 En Pointe 8 Twist Fate 7 Unchartered Waters 13 The 4th Dimension 15 On the Waterfront 15 Leonardos Dream 20 In the Garden of Cosmic Speculation 7 Just Another Brick 6 Sense of Direction 6 Steadfast Tin Soldier 5 Proddigy 12 Fractured Moments 10 Us and Them 11 Testament 9 Symphony of Silence 15 Sculpt 18 Forest Thru the Trees 17 The Wanderer 8 Change is the Only Constant 7 Synapse 11 Polarity 5 Tremendous Sea of Love 9 Lost and Found 14 Endeavor 13 Loop 17 Pop 17

Wow. That's insane. Who in the world would think that fine arts aren't important? Here in Texas at least one year of fine arts is required to graduate. It teaches students so much in life. This is one of the many reasons why I would never live in California. Ugh. I feel bad for all of the band kids wishing they could have a better opportunity for education and competition over there. They apparently are all about the traditional sports and the money over there. No offense to your home, by the way, or your alma mater.

BEHOLD A STORY OF POWER AND EQUALITY The Cadets are proud to present their 2019 production Behold. The show illuminates the struggle to attain power, keep power, and ultimately, the power of equality. Libby Larson’s 'Fanfare for the Women' opens the show and celebrates the powerful, intelligent, and brave women of the past; personified by a single character, the Queen. “Behold is, by definition, a command for respect and is often used to introduce something remarkable or impressive. The design team wanted to honor the remarkable story of resilience, strength, unity, and healing for The Cadets and for all women in our activity and our country, as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of women in The Cadets in 2019,” said Darcie Aungst, Program Coordinator. “I was intrigued by women in history who lead entire nations as far back as Ancient Egypt and Rome; often pondering the question, what happened? Why in 2019 is it a struggle? This show explores that history and those questions. Behold tells a tale of female strength and leadership, the ugliness of jealousy, discrimination, and power when it is held over others. The show points triumphantly to images and sounds of true equality and opportunity for everyone regardless of gender, race, orientation, identity, or ethnicity. Shattering the glass ceiling opens opportunities for everyone who has been told they are ‘less than’ and leaves our world a better place for future generations. Behold the power of unity, of equality, and of The Cadets!” 'Just' by David Lang and 'Blueprint' by Caroline Shaw soon follow as we see and hear cracks in the palace which signal the end of the Queen’s reign. The breakdown is followed by the chaos that occurs within a complete vacuum of power. 'Dance 1' of the Estancia Orchestral Suite by Alberto Ginastera then sets the scene as the corps breaks into tribes with the intent of taking power from others. Divided by their differences, everything is destroyed. 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' by Paul Simon washes over the corps as the Queen comes into focus, witnessing the destruction of what she had created by those filled with jealousy. She accepts the destruction wrought by those who stole from her and begins to heal her people, bringing them together, and undertakes the rebuilding so that they can move forward. She both heals and passes the torch so that future generations can have a better life. Following the healing of the past, the future generation gets the opportunity to do and be anything they want. 'Do Better' is an original piece by Tom Aungst, Omar Carmenates, and Brandon Carrita that is meant to be a playful, modern, young, and fresh take on the concept that anything you can do, I can do better. If the past generation does something; we want the future generation to do even better. The finale from David Maslanka’s 4th Symphony provides an emotional, glorious, and majestic closer where the diverse women and men of the corps stream forward to shatter the glass ceiling. This act empowers people who were never before given a chance to step up and lead. With this diversity of gender, identity, race, ethnicity, orientation, and age comes new ideas, innovations, celebrations, and respect.

Boston is known for their exceptionally emotional shows, and this one will not disappoint. Can't wait to see what they have for the field this year, especially after constantly hearing how insane their brass line is this year.

Boston Crusaders 2019 — “Goliath” The Biblical account of David and Goliath is a classic lesson of courage, wisdom and perseverance. Today, the phrase “David and Goliath” refers to an underdog scenario; a competition where a smaller, weaker opponent faces a much larger and stronger adversary. Through careful planning and enormous human will, the “David” character finally defies overwhelming odds to emerge victorious. The Boston Crusaders display and develop the inherent drama and emotion of this underdog story. Drawing on familiar themes from literature and film, contrast and scale literally and figuratively set the stage for this epic portrayal. The 2019 production delivers a powerful combination of variety and conceptual continuity while guiding viewers through the life-long process of innocence, preparation, and conflict to arrive at the ultimate moment of truth. Repertoire Includes: Enough of Our Machines – Son Lux Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears (Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes) On the Shoulders of Giants – Peter Graham Giant Steps – John Coltrane My Shot – Lin-Manuel Miranda Fanfare for Rocky – Bill Conti Once Upon a Castle – Michael Daugherty

Our school generally does the same as herbaflerb's, but you'll notice that a lot of students, especially brass, never use them at football games because we have memorized them anyway so we don't have to add the extra weight to our already heavy instruments. Plus, it's a nuisance having to constantly flip through pages of the flip book when you have to hurry up and get set during a football game when you are about to play a song. Our director also asks, however, that when we are learning the show we always have the music with us, so most of us go to the copy machine and size it down so it'll fit in our flip book and bring that out with us. Hope this helps!

Blue Devils 2019 - "Ghost Light" It is on da tube but for some reason the site isn't letting me paste links right now, so good luck.

Can't forget their drum corps as well, lol. Three finalists, two medals, and one of them champion says a lot.

Can somebody please count just how many are signed up for Nat's?

Back from finals.... might as well have semis now with 94 BANDS SIGNED UP!!!!!!

Ooh, that sounds awesome! It's definitely an interesting repertoire.

Thank you all! I know I'm not the only one on this forum that is or has gone through this, so good luck to you all as well!

I have had some of my finals already, at least the college side. Now I have AP tests the next two weeks (I'm taking four this year, and will be taking seven(!!!) next year), and then immediately into finals for the high school side of things, and then SAT on June 1st. Fun. Definitely going to be a rough month ahead for me... just waiting for more info to be released on these forums to help me keep my sanity lol. That's why I want the lists to come out already

Oh heck yeah! That was so much fun. I was in the very front row as well. Fourth trombone from your right in the Madison section, so I got to see everything. And even better, we were conducted by the international champion Euphonium player, Mr. Matthew Mireles. He's a great guy, by the way. He came to our school earlier this year and performed for us, and I still have no words for what he can do on that instrument.

Not going to check, but let me guess. What you are talking about was the Sam Houston HS. Band. They are by far the crowd favorite every year, but for some reason they never win the crowd favorite award.

I. Need. The. Lists. I NEED THEM!

Went to the Crossmen camp this past weekend, and all I can say is wow. I will go no further until MMX.

Oops. I guess I just kept reading over that line

Hey you forgot Dylan - unless you have him listed as inactive.

never mind I really drew a blank there, I forgot that the woodlands was going to nationals this yeat.

Wait do you mean the indy super, or grand nats?

Blue Devils - (Don't get me wrong, they are awesome, but they have been on top for too long imo) Carolina Crown + (I hope to march here one day) 27th Lancers - 12 Blue Devils - 42 Blue Knights - 25 Blue Stars - 18 Bluecoats - 35 Boston Crusaders - 21 Bridgemen - 10 Carolina Crown - 28 Colts - 9 Crossmen - 5 Freelancers - 10 Glassmen - 16 Guardsmen - 3 Kilties - 6 Madison Scouts - 41 Magic of Orlando - 6 Mandarins - 3 Muchachos - 3 North Star - 5 Phantom Regiment - 46 Santa Clara Vanguard - 46 Sky Ryders - 6 Spirit of Atlanta - 20 Star of Indiana - 9 Suncoast Sound - 7 The Academy - 3 The Cadets - 41 The Cavaliers - 46 Troopers - 9 Velvet Knights - 7

Thank you, and I heard that. The guy especially loved it and seemed to know at least a little bit about what he was talking about, which I thought was really cool! I wonder if he or a family member were ever in band. The dance was really fun to do when you got into it.