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Blast! is a Broadway production created by James Mason for Cook Group Incorporated, the director and organization formerly operating the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps. It was the 2001 winner of the Tony Award for " Best Special Theatrical Event ", [ 1 ] and simultaneously received a Tony Award nomination [ 2 ] for and won the 2001 Emmy ...
Pritchard obtained a band arrangement of the song Step to the Rear from the Broadway musical How Now, Dow Jones in 1968 and the marching band played the song at the first game of the 1968 season. It caught the ear of Coach Paul Dietzel who contacted Pritchard about making it the official fight song of the University to replace the original ...
His "Patterns in Motion", based on a constant-motion system using four-player squads, revolutionized bands and their halftime shows, moving away from the military style of marching. His style dominated both college and high school marching band shows and competitions from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, when drum corps began to become ...
The band also performs during halftime, with a wider variety of music ranging from Broadway show tunes to top-40 hits. The band's musical selections are chosen entirely by student committee. The Cavalier Marching Band was selected to march in the 2015 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
Kenneth R. Force, Captain, USMS (March 24, 1940 – October 7, 2023) was band director of the United States Merchant Marine Academy Regimental Band from 1971 to 2016. [1] [2] The New York Times described him as "something of a Toscanini of military marching bands" [1] [3] and a "human encyclopedia of military ceremonial and musical data."
The march music era in the U.S. saw the development of college and high school marching bands, which typically were organized to perform march music during half-time shows and pep-rallies. Composers often dedicated marches to a favored university band.
The Franco-American Cultural Fund has unveiled the nine award winners from the American French Film Festival, which took place in Hollywood from Oct. 29- Nov. 3. Taking home top prize for the ...
The first album in the series, recorded by the United States Navy Band Heritage of the March is a series of 185 vinyl records of marches and galops released from 1973 to 1988. It remains the largest single march music record series in history, featuring close to 3,000 different marches.