Arcadia HS - March Grandioso - 2017 Placentia Band Review 

Still going strong after all these years. They were great in the 70's too, just keeping up the spirit and great work. The Drum Major is the bomb! Great job everyone! Arcadia rocks!

Very nice drum major. Keep it up.

Nice, drum major! Love the roll off, the dynamics are SO good. Great job as always! -Diamond Bar

Love your drum major and amazing dynamics

Wow such a good drum major, nice step off 👍👌

Tears flowing, so stirring. Remembering playing this in the 1972 Rose Parade with Ben Davis High School Marching Giants. Great job, band!

A1 drum major - Foothill

drum major is outstanding ! -dbhs

Congratulations for a great performance Aracdia! Good skills to all of you for the rest of the season and can't wait to see you at the next parade -Diamond Bar CG

Thank you Music213 for all your hard work in getting all these outstanding videos shot, edited and uploaded! Good job Arcadia!

drum major too g00d - diamond bar

A fantastic performance with one of the best marches!

Nice playing!! Was in the Santa Monica HS band 1968-1970.Many Band Reviews.Sousaphone.

Now, this is really a GREAT High School band!

There are some performances that are meticulously detailed and precise. There are some that are just a load of fun to watch and listen to. This performance was both. AMAZING JOB ARCADIA!! -DBHS B.Sax 🍑

Congratulations on a successful performance Arcadia! :) We hope you continue having a wonderful season!! -Diamond Bar

All music elements really are perfect. You're unbelievable hard-ass work paid off. You've always had a sharp band. Congrats from. Second trumpet Marching Seminoles, Sanford fl. Went into usaf from hs. Tough job but someone's gotta do it. Impressive! Your marching skill is are sterling.

Awesome performance. Gl on the rest of your season ! - Diamond Bar

Looking forward to Arcadia's next performance. And to the low brass - just wow! ~ Diamond Bar

Amazing performance! ❤️ -diamond bar

Wow, this drum major is amazing! Is this person the same drum major as last year? The spinning style looks similar. Kudos to you, drum major!

Great Marching and Playing!!!! Good luck for the rest of the season!!

A proud Apache, Alumni, and a West High Warrior band member 1974/75, we beat Arcadia with March Grandioso in 1974 many times with a high music score, including Sweepstakes Music Award at the 1974 El Primero Band Review in Santa Monica, which earned us with our First Entrance in the 1975 Tournament Of Roses Parade. I'm so blessed to have been a part of the two best High School Music Programs in the Country!

Watched it 3 times!! Amazing performance Arcadia!!! -DBHS alum

Go arcadiaaaaaa!!!! You guys did great and you are really fun to compete against -diamond bar

You are FANTASTIC

amazing performance!! good luck on the rest of the season! -diamond bar

you guys sounded so good (': can't wait hear you guys again -diamond bar

This performance is outstanding, good luck for the rest of the season it looks great so far!! -diamond bar

Wonderful straight lines. Great performance.

Brilliant!

Great footwork by all!

A superior band. Great sound!

Good performance, marching needs practice, too much bounce, not enough glide. Diagonals, secondary diagonals guide center. Dig in your heels! I agree with the comment about dynamics. I performed this march in 1974 (gasp) with West High, and we earned the Music Award (High Music Score of the Event) almost every time we competed that year, and in our early rehearsals, often our Band Director - Ronald Large, would stop us before we played the second measure of the intro. Also know, that Former Arcadia Band Director - Ron Hoar (R.I.P.) was a clinician with our band before the start of this and the next school years. After that, I was at Arcadia, Class of '78. Arcadia, you CAN do IT! Fine Tuning!

AS A FORMER BAND DIRECTOR RETIRED: THIS BAND KICKS BUTT! ESP.MUSICALLY...No one but a band person would watch the feet anyway when hearing this band.

Yes kings and queens!

Thanks for the feedback everyone! -A guy from AHS band

outstanding all the way around

Excellent !!!

that salute tho!!!

Let's not get too carried away. It was a good first performance with lots of room for improvement. Agree with Gorman..., you. can't be timid with this march but you can't allow it to take control. Great first note. Bass line pushed the tempo better than DB and RK. Dynamic changes need more. As your confidence grows, the sound quality will improve. The good news is that the fixes aren't out of reach. AHS, RKHS, and DBHS are very close to one another. Keep working.

Musical. Brilliant.

I wish I could compete in a socal band review in a socal hs marching band

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Arcadia Arcadia Arcadia! (Still gotta love them as an OGHS band alumni).

Arcadia, you guys look and sound great!! Diamond Bar's looking forward to your next performance! :)

Il manque les sousaphones !

What really frosts me is all the people standing with their hands in their pockets. Clap you dullards!

7 sweepstakes! Go apaches

How is that an a band? Looks more like atleast 2a or 3a.

This was a nice performance but not great. The dynamics were good, however the Trumpets were pinched and not full. Listen to the University of Texas Band and Allen and observe the importance of the Trumpet sections having a full sound. Improvement of the Trumpet section would make this a very strong and difficult Band to beat. This March requires a large sound to carry it off. You need to have a sound that dominates the street. Good Trombones and Winds. Trumpets were the big problem. As a Texan I hear this march often(unofficial state march).