Tag: Brass

  • Drum Major Interview

    Marching Roundtable Interview: Episode 42: DCI Drum Majors– Life On & Off the Podium [player track=”http://marchingroundtable.com/Podcasts/MRTDCIDRUMMAJORS1.mp3″] Download Part 1 Three DCI drum majors take us behind the scenes explaining their roles on and off the podium, as well as sharing tips and advice for those interested in becoming drum majors. Our guests: Brad Green of…

  • VIDEOS – Madison Scouts Brass Auditions 2012

    Remember this post? Toward the end of the move-in (Spring Training) period last summer, I had the idea of preparing videos of what we will expect from the 2012 Madison Scouts horn line members. Utilizing the expertise of Tim Snyder and Robin Snyder of Box 5 Productions, we put together a handful of videos for…

  • Stagger Breathing

    A reading from the Madison Scouts 2012 Brass Manual – Stagger Breathing When listening to long sustained chords from a brass ensemble, you will notice that the best ensembles sustain these chords without holes in the sound. The “wall of sound” is created by utilizing a technique called stagger breathing. Essentially the wall of sound…

  • Scouts Receive World Trade Center Artifact

    Originally Posted by the Madison Scouts RSS feed on August 31, 2011 by Chris Komnick (Director). The Madison Scouts were recently presented with an artifact from the World Trade Center in recognition of their 2011 production “New York Morning”. Presented by Kenneth Job, Vice President of Job and Job (a New Jersey engineering firm), the…

  • Madison Scouts 2011 – Finals Vids

      Madison Scouts 2011 DCI World Championships Finals Night YouTube Videos

  • Donnie VanDoren Takes A Lap

    Donnie, Tim, Scott, Amy, Evan, & Alex take a lap on the last day of spring.

  • First Note I heard when I got back

    This put a smile on my face when I got back.

  • Absolution

    Absolution by Prodigal Children written, recorded, & performed by Brad Kerr Green & Jacquelyn Adams (www.JacquelynAdams.com) [line] All around me, it surrounds me Calls my name Want to touch me Want to feel me, but I’m scared I need your love to keep me sane, to heal me once again All around me love surrounding,…

  • Departures – Explaining This Symphonic Poem For Wind Ensemble

    For the GDYO (Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra) Wind Symphony.   Departures for Winds and Percussion is a symphonic (tone) poem – a piece of music in a single continuous section in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another non-musical source is illustrated or evoked. For me,…

  • GDYO, Inc – Spring ’11 Newsletter

    Greater Dallas Youth Orchestras, Inc – Spring 2011 Newsletter May 1 Concert – Wind Symphony The Wind Symphony under the direction of Dr. Nicholas Williams will perform: Mozart Clarinet Concerto – featuring Steven Tsai winner of the 2011 Wind Symphony Concerto Competition Departures – Bradley Kerr Green Candide Overture – Bernstein Fantasy Variations – Barnes…