You'll have to forgive the one wayward woodwind squawk, and the one band member close to the microphone who accidentally sings aggressively off-key during our closing piece XD I promise it's worth a watch!
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Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:52 pm
Pasadena California Bandfest and Rose Parade. 2010 -2011
Honestly you can just type in Pride of the Mountains Marching Band and you'll get a ton of hits.
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 10:40 am
Mt. Healthy's 2009-2010 show was called CLUE (like the board game?) We won a bunch of 1st and 2nd place trophies. And now, 2 years later, we're a show band... talk about a nasty fall. Well, heres the show... Enjoy! ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPyZNVNiazs[/youtube]
Well, first off, our band is kinda special. In 2005, our band was in 1A, with less than 30 people overall (including pit/colorguard). Since 2005, we have rose a single division, ending with last year in 6A, with around 150-160 members. Starting in 2008, we ditched having a drum major direct us, or any one in fact, and placed our pit in the middle of the field, and we tend to use a lot of techno music in our show. I started off as a freshman in 2008, size 4A. We won first place in the last competition, our show called In Dreams, and it was about a hypnotist(Induction) traveling through a woman's fantasies (Fantasy of Flight), loves (Hyper Ballad), and fears (Fear).
The year after that was our show Nightlife, a good show that was hard to follow plotwise. We were in 5A then, and our show was set in downtown San Diego, where a man couldn't sleep until he found the woman he fell in love with (the woman in white/Isobel). The man gives up in the end, and the ending was left to speculate. We arrived in 2nd place most of that season. The opener (Nightlife) was our man trying to find her, even chasing her into the streets. Our ballad (Isobel), was the man finding a club where she sang at times, and we are given her name, Isobel. Our closer ( Don't remember the title xD ) was him giving up, after finally succumbing to madness.
Last year was a record breaking year for us and the division we play in. We entered 6A, the first band in our division to do so in over 15 years. We also adopted contras instead of sousaphones, and we love out contra section (7 members!) Our colorguard had finally reached double digits since the school started, with around 20 members. We were small for 6A standards, but practically dominated much of the season, even winning 3 of the overall titles (Top Music, Top Percussion, and Grand Champions), the first time in the 50 year history of our school to do so. Our show, Paradise Lost, was about the battle between good and evil, heaven and hell, and good wins the war in the end. Our portions didn't have a title, but a plot line was important. In the opener, we find the army of heaven running from the latest defeat. Our ballad portrays the regrouping of th army and the march to another battle. In our closer, we march off to war, and the army of heaven finally defeats evil once and for all, and the angels are given back their wings.
This year, we don't have a video up just yet, as we haven't had our first actual performance at a competition yet. Our show is called Something Wicked This Way Comes, and is about a woman who buys a house of her own, but finds the house to not be all the good it was said to be, and the current "inhabitants" want her out. The ending does not go well for our woman. Our band this year has around 180 members overall, and our first competition is next week, and we already have marched and played more than 6 minutes of our show so far, and we just finished learning our drill for our closer : ) Our plotline is as such: (Something Wicked This Way Comes) A woman gets a brand new job and has to move to a new city. She's so excited for herself, and she buys a house of her own. It's not a newer house, but she doesn't care. But when she enters her new home, she feels as if somethings not right. Weird things start to happen around her; she can't see what's causing it, but she can feel them, hear them. The ghostly inhabitants want her our, and want her out now. Out of fear, she runs to her room for safety, and realizes her ghosts can't reach her there. (Incantation) Our ballad starts off with the ghosts "changing" their mind about her, and we hear a little girl outside her room, begging her to come out and play, to stay there forever with them. Our woman refuses, and the ghosts become even more angry with her. They don't want her to leave, they want her to stay and join them, and our leading lady leaves her room for a way out of her home (Chase). Our closer ends on a sour note, when the woman unwillingly succumbs to the ghosts.
One of our band teachers writes the music himself and the other teacher writes our drill as well.
You'll have to forgive the one wayward woodwind squawk, and the one band member close to the microphone who accidentally sings aggressively off-key during our closing piece XD I promise it's worth a watch!
>.< i saw that show during a competition, it was epic! My whole band loved it!! as for show goes... None of this year..yet
One of the percussion directors put up the video so we could all watch it. It's our best performance this season so far. We were only in class 4A because the competition was based on school size, rather than band size. Our colorguard scored .1 below a typically 3A band's colorguard in prelims though, so we were extremely psyched about that.
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