Marching Band

Covering the Visual Category Whether it's at a marching festival, a parade or your own halftime show, audiences and judges are always looking for that “something extra” to provide memorable visual excitement. No doubt excellent…
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Taking a unique approach to the competition field this year, director Mark D’Angelo and the staff at Wyandotte have determined to do a marching band show about . . . well . . . marching band show. Like all good artistic endeavors, this show…
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“This year’s show design process for the Wyandotte Marching Chiefs of Roosevelt HS was a circuitous path to the final product. The original concept was built around the “In the Arena” quotes and was supposed to support a gladiator theme and…
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Steve Martin Composer/Designer- GPG Music Publications Roosevelt HS Marching Band, Mark DeAngelo, Director 2011 Show  "Heros and Villains" BLOG > "Mid-Season Evaluation" As a benefit of the amazing technology available to us,…
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Get Inside The Box — And win! Randy T. Gilmore I recently saw a comic depicting a boss pointing at a subordinate saying, “You get back to your cubicle and start thinking outside the box!” Other than being an obvious oxymoron, you can…
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"First Thoughts"  The 2011 Wyandotte Marching Chiefs show is entitled "Heroes & Villains". This year, the Wyandotte design team was struggling a bit with the concept development and asked me if I had any shows that I wanted to write.…
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As Summer Heats Up, So Does Drum Corps Season: Learn to survive the dog days and keep your body fit for your moment in the sun. Emile Menasch Drum corps is a complete music, mind and body experience. And while the music and the mind…
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Getting Organized: Planning Your Year William W. Gourley Summer Check with principal/department head: What is your teaching schedule? Who sets the teaching schedule for the building? Who schedules music calendar?…
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Cope Your Way to a Stress-free Life By Randy Gilmore, Marching Show Concepts, Inc. First published in Fanfare, Volume 21, Issue 3, Spring/Summer 2007. Reprinted by permission. This time of year finds many of us weighed down and…
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Be Remarkable! By Randy Gilmore, Marching Show Concepts, Inc. First printed in Fanfare, Vol. 22, Issue 1, Autumn 2007.  Reprinted by permission. Marching bands can hardly help but be noticed. People instinctively turn their heads…
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It's Your Story...Stick With It! By Randy T. Gilmore, Marching Show Concepts, Inc. Originally published in The Bandmasters Review Online, September 2008 - volume 10 - issue 1. Reprinted by permission. Even though the Olympics are…
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What did You Say? The hallmark of effective teaching is based on successful communication. The basis of successful communication is intrinsically bound to our use of words. Words have power. Rudyard Kipling goes so far as to say, “Words…
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