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"The High School Cadets" is a march written in 1890 by John Philip Sousa in honor of the cadet drill team of Washington High School in the District of Columbia. It is in regimental march form (I-AA-BB-CC-DD) and is a popular selection for school concert and marching bands, as well as for professional orchestras and bands. The march has been ...
The following works are some of the most universally respected and established cornerstones of the band repertoire. All have "stood the test of time" through decades of regular performance, and many, either through an innovative use of the medium or by the fame of their composer, helped establish the wind band as a legitimate, serious performing ensemble.
The Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps (Erie, PA) perform in Annapolis, MD on June 16, 2007. A modern drum and bugle corps is a musical marching unit consisting of brass instruments, percussion instruments, electronic instruments, and color guard.
The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps (formerly the Holy Name Cadets, Cadets of Garfield, Garfield Cadets, and Cadets of Bergen County) was a junior drum and bugle corps that operated from 1934 to 2024. Most recently based in Erie , Pennsylvania , the group was among the thirteen founding corps of Drum Corps International (DCI).
The female cadets refused pictures unless their fish buddies (members of their freshman class in their unit) were included in the photos. [1] [16] With a band dropout rate of 33% the odds were against all of the female cadets succeeding, only Andrea Abat remained in the band through her senior year.
In his 1928 autobiography, Marching Along, Sousa wrote that he composed the march on Christmas Day, 1896.Sousa was on board an ocean liner on his way home from a vacation with his wife in Europe and had just learned of the recent death of David Blakely, the manager of the Sousa Band.
A Nashville high school student was shot dead and two other were wounded after a crazed ROTC cadet opened fire after carrying a handgun into school on Wednesday. Gunfire erupted just after 11 a.m ...
Karl Lawrence King was born in the village of Paintersville, Ohio. [1] He was the only child of Sandusky S. and Anna Lindsey King. The King family moved to Canton, Ohio, when he was eleven, the age he used newspaper carrier income to purchase his first musical instrument – a cornet.