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    2023 BOA DFW (Oct. 7)

    in UIL: Upcoming Contests

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    I hope y’all don’t mind but I’m going to go ahead and divert the topic back to last night’s performances because every band was absolutely STUNNING. It would take forever for me to break down every band so I’m just going to run through some of my individual highlights for our top half:

    First, COPPELL - As a Coppell alum myself, I was utterly floored. I think this is the cleanest performance I’ve ever seen from them this early in the season. The woodwinds were absolutely stellar, especially during their feature in what looks like the show’s part 2. These time signatures are not easy, especially the complex 2+2+2+3 9/8 in part 2 and they executed them wonderfully. And the brass had that nice brilliant, dark ensemble sound that’s begun to become characteristic of them over the last couple of years (I guess we can call this the Coppell sound now). Someone else already said it but Coppell is ABSOLUTELY the powerhouse that we are not yet talking about but that we most definitely should be. Overall super proud of where my alma mater has taken the program and I look forward to seeing what they have to offer in San Antonio (safely) assuming they make UIL State.

    MARCUS - Don’t get me wrong, the whole show was by far one of the best and most characterful I’ve seen out of Marcus in quite a few years. But holy moly that quad feature was just unhinged. What got me the most was the fact that those were their SNARE players. Those weren’t even their drumline’s dedicated quad players. Absolutely bonkers.

    WAKELAND - Wow that ensemble sound is what got me. For such a small band (comparatively speaking) they have such an intense and focused brass sound. In some ways it almost reminded me of some of Vista Ridge’s brass sound from their 2022 show last year. Overall I really enjoyed how simple their show was contrasted with a lot of the more artsy shows we saw last night.

    FLOWER MOUND - Not much to say really. Really clean performance with a show that contrasts nicely with some of the more playful shows that we’ve seen from them the past couple years. I know someone else on this thread already said it but this is definitely going to be a high scoring show time come UIL. Overall classic Flower Mound formula still working wonders on the football field like always.

    JENKS - If I’m being completely honest, I never really give the Oklahoma bands much thought aside from Broken Arrow. However, listening to Jenks perform last night was most definitely a wonderful surprise to say the least. Everything about their show was just really, really good and well rounded. Good brass, good woodwinds, good percussion, good visuals, great overall show. Overall an absolute pleasure to watch. I’ll definitely make sure to not make the mistake of overlooking Oklahoma bands going forward.

    HEBRON - I’m just going to completely avoid addressing the elephant in the room and decide not to get into the absurdity that is their music book this year. I swear, it’s like they’re just trying to figure out new ways to one-up themselves with each passing year. Everything else was otherwise Hebron as always. Oh and the Spartacus fanfare in the beginning was a cool touch too.

    BOTTOM HALF - Everyone was so dang good that I was literally struggling to try to find individual highlights for each band which is why I decided not to list any. Everyone was just so close. I don’t know what to say, this was by far the most stacked bottom half, and top half too for that matter, that I’ve ever seen at this competition in recent years and it was so awesome that each of the 12 finalist bands kept me thoroughly engaged throughout the entire competition. What a privilege to be an audience member, we were definitely eatin’ good last night :)

     

     

  13. 2022 BOA San Antonio (Nov. 4 & 5)

    in Past Contests, Events, and Festivals Archive

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    I have to say having got a chance to look at the finals full recaps that the one thing that really stood out to me is the fact that Coppell got 6th overall in individual music and then 10+ in everything else. It’s… interesting to say the least, seeing as the caption scores were somewhat more consistent across the board for the other bands.

    Edit: Well I suppose other bands also had some significant outliers as well having individual captions that were also 5+/- their overall ranking. But I thought it was intriguing that Coppell’s 6th in individual music was strong enough to break top/bottom split.

  16. UIL Area B 2022

    in Past Contests, Events, and Festivals Archive

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    Coppell was stunning! Their ensemble sound is very dark and sonorous with great balance and clarity between all of the instruments. Having listened to both, it reminds a lot of Marcus’ sound but if you were to make it sound a bit more brilliant and a bit less reserved. Visual cleanliness was also very good and was leaps and bounds ahead of their last showing at BOA Dallas. I’d personally see them as locks for state finals with a very solid chance at making the top half.

    Keller was also very, very good. While the other state advancing bands were absolutely wonderful in their own right, I personally had Keller getting second and was a little surprised to see them get fourth.

  17. 2022 BOA San Antonio (Nov. 4 & 5)

    in Past Contests, Events, and Festivals Archive

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    3 hours ago, natertater21000 said:

    I could definitely see that happening in panel 1, panel 2 seems a bit too top heavy for any major upsets to occur. You never know for sure though! 

    Don't sleep too hard on Coppell y'all! After their recent showing at area I could definitely see them creeping up into both the top 5 of panel 2 and, assuming they make finals, the top half in finals with the right run.

     

    Coppell UIL Area B Finals: 

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vnB9nSb5IqXl1IN9JJwVXNXFp869RhhM/view?usp=sharing

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