1998 --- Bonus Material

In 1998, Youth Education in the Arts had a rather extensive presence in the world of drum corps.

Besides the Cadets, YEA! had taken on ownership and management of the Crossmen Drum Corps.

In addition, through management and consulting agreements, YEA! was assisting the work of the Carolina Crown and the Boston Crusaders.

Absent an agreement and remuneration, the entire group was assisting Magic of Orlando as best we could.

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In 1998, after an excellent 1997 season that ended in a second-place finish, there was much to discuss.

Here is a little bit from 1997

We first began with a show based on classic American music literature. In fact, we would return to much of this material in 2000 , since we ended up changing our minds.

After a good winter, we were a good three minutes into the show and all was going well. As part of my responsibility, I spent Saturday of that weekend in Crown assisting Carolina Crown. Included was programming assistance and such was made easy as Jay Bocook, was writing for both groups.

Well … Jay and I went out for a bite to eat and out of nowhere, Jay said something kind of like “ So, I have this chart. I love it. But I do not want to play it for you as you will want to change the Cadets show”. I laughed.

“Jay … it is too late for that”.

Well, he played “Stonehenge for me”.

Holy Crap. I remember saying “this guy must have written for drum corps. He knows exactly the formats we love”.

Well … I went home and arrived at Sunday’s Cadets rehearsal about noon. The corps was good. But Stonehenge was on my mind.

I stopped by the brass staff. Donnie van Doren had returned as the brass caption supervisor and he was at rehearsal. I had him get in my car. I played him the piece. I suggested we make the change. And he smiled. Just about at once we said “Let’s Do It”.

And the rest was history. Not only was it awesome, we ended up winning the DCI Championship. Yes, I did have to do some talking to the percussion guys, and yes, the corps members may have looked at me a little sideways … but … well … As we know, we took a chance, went with the piece and it was a blast.

Here is the 2008 program — the Cadets and Stonehenge.

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