My father, Jack Ellis, taught Mark Hourigan, Drum Major in 89 for Phantom, how to conduct. Couldn't teach him to be 6'1 with a devilish grey streak in his hair in high school, but I digress. I know good conductors, and this kid here is good.
Just saw this after hearing their full finals performance many times thinking they won instead of SCV. Now that I hear it in the Arch the music isn't very difficult and the lead sopranos are WEAK though maybe their not really pushing. Either way it's EH for me in the arch. Any big corp can play great in a arch when they got 70+ brass. NWS though is still one of the greatest pieces of classical music and Phantoms finals performance was WTF great in my opinion. Wasn't excited though about this!
I marched in this corps and can tell you that this line of trumpets and mellos were not very loud. By comparison, the euphoniums were stacked and completely dominated the sound. Unfortunately that was because the brass caption head never marched dci and thought we should play like musicians instead. completely wrong mentality and lead to us having weak spots in our line.
'89 was a quicker tempo. Thise staccato accented notes were on point and difficult to sound cohesive. Plus the 89 corps blew off everyone's eyebrows on finals night.
oh my god! this school is amazing!! I go to Dekaney and this is nothing compared to the show that we had. Spring is off the chain!!!! I wish you guys would have won! :) I myself saw this in person at San Antonio and I was just mindblown and flabergasted that you guys didn't make it to Grand Nationals!!
