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JAMES LOGAN HS IS BACK ON TOP

THE WGI MOST VALUABLE PERFORMERS OF 2010

A Giant Rises

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Onyx wins its first World Class gold medal

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Congratulations to all Another April meant another celebration of the best in the indoor marching arts at the WGI World Championships in Dayton, Ohio. Of the hundreds of groups that participated over two weekends, only 14 could go home a champion, but all walked away winners. Full color guard and percussion coverage begins on page 19; for even more photos, turn to page 42.

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SPRING 2010 Volume 24, Issue 2

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Pride of Cincinnati was an official fan favorite in the text voting competition.

INSIDE 9 ENSEMBLE

Sonya Tayeh and Jeff Queen lend artistry and expertise to the“Sunday After” …

Championship coverage gets a boost on Marching.com … Web multi-casts make the grade … New benefits for early-bird DVD buyers … 15 great performers win WGI Scholarships … and more!

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For the first time in its two-decade history, Onyx has a World Class medal - and they won the gold by taking a big risk.

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The four latest WGI Hall of Fame inductees have brought percussion to new heights.

19 2010 WGI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 20 COLOR GUARD

It was Onyx’s time to shine at the IW Finals, while James Logan High School got the chance to reclaim its Scholastic World crown.

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Pulse Percussion learned that good things come to those who wait, and Ayala High School discovered that two medals are better than one.

38 MVPs

Every team is made up of individuals, and some of them don’t always get the kudos they deserve. We’re putting that right this year by recognizing four WGI MVPs.

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Relive the excitement of the 2010 Championships with these select snapshots.

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Ensemble NEWS FROM THE FLOOR AND MORE

K R A M N U F D N A N IO T EDUCA ” R E T F A Y A D N U S “ E H T

MARCHING.COM HAS A NEW SPIN

Jeff Queen (L) got hands-on at the Trent Arena and Sonya Tayeh (R) brought “combat jazz” to Dayton.

“fulfilled” by the experience, calling the attendees “crazy good dancers.”

The James Trent Arena played host to the following week’s session on April 18: a clinic presented by four-time world snare drum champion Jeff Queen. An eager audience of young musicians got the lowdown on how a professional in the percussion activity turned his passion into his business. Queen’s brilliant playing also inspired everyone in the room to pursue a higher level of performance in preparation for their next WGI experience. Thanks to Pearl Corporation, Vic Firth Inc., Evans Drumheads, and Zildjian Inc. for supporting this event.

If you ventured onto the Marching.com website after the WGI World Championships, you couldn’t help but notice it: Right at the top of the home page was a striking photo slideshow of various color guard and percussion ensembles that appeared in this year’s finals. The home page display was just one part of the site’s expanded coverage of WGI events this year, which also included prominent text articles, YouTube videos, and photographs.

There’s a reason why Marching.com chose 2010 to beef up its WGI coverage—it’s currently celebrating its 15th season of serving the marching arts community. Founded in 1996 by Ken Martinson, the site has established itself as one of the top online destinations for information on winter guard, drum corps, and other marching activities. In addition to WGI, Marching.com works closely with such organizations as Music for All/ Bands of America, DCI and Disney.

CHAMPIONSHIPS

BY THE NUMBERS The 2010 WGI World Championships featured: ■ 281 color guards and 178 percussion ensembles from 6 countries in 4 arenas ■ 5,058 color guard performers and 4,628 percussion performers ■ 175 volunteers ■ 73 judges ■ 150 pounds of confetti blasted at the World Class retreat ■ 26 bags (2,260 lbs.) of oranges between both weekends

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On two consecutive Saturday nights in April, the WGI Color Guard and Percussion World Championships shone a spotlight on indoor performance at its best. On the following Sunday mornings, the emphasis switched to another central component of the Sport of the Arts: education, in the form of two exciting “Sunday After” master classes.

First, at the UD Arena on April 11, So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Sonya Tayeh introduced almost 400 participants to “combat jazz.”

Color guard members who were still a little groggy at the 10 AM start time quickly found some energy during the rigorous conditioning sequence. Then, without counts, Tayeh took the room by storm with her vocal rendition of Oona’s “Tore My Heart,” demonstrating an aggressive style of movement that got dancers to come out of their shell.

“I learned how to use my spine in ways I’m not used to and how to be less self-conscious,” said one participant, Kerisa Devey of Urban Expressions. “The choreography was out of the box.” For her part, Tayeh said she felt

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FAN NETWORK’S EARLY BIRDS LUCK OUT

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Members of the WGI Fan Network are getting used to receiving special privileges, and this season a very special one indeed is being unveiled—“Early-Bird” access to WGI World Championships video footage. Here’s how it works: If you have a Fan Network subscription and preorder a championship DVD, you can watch the videos you ordered without having to wait months for the DVD to come out.

“Once fans have ordered their DVDs,” WGI Marketing Manager Bart Woodley explains, “we will grant their account permission to watch streaming footage of the same volumes they ordered online. This will be the unedited raw footage that is being produced for the DVDs. Viewers will use the same log-in they always do to get into the Fan Network.”

By the time you read these words, “Early-Bird” access will be a reality. So if you haven’t preordered your championship DVDs yet, head on over to wgi.org/store and make your selection. And if you aren’t a Fan Network member yet, sign yourself up at wgi. org/fannetwork. There’s no need to wait any longer!

Ever-Dri Gloves Help Guard Members Get a Grip One of the biggest challenges color guard performers face is simply keeping a firm hold on their fl ags, weapons and other props. Gloves can be a huge help in this regard, but standard leather types quickly get soaked with sweat, becoming uncomfortable to wear and unpleasant to smell.

That’s where the new Ever-Dri Performance Gloves from Director’s Showcase International come in. These gloves are made from a custom blend of microfibers that pull moisture away from the hand. They also have one huge advantage over leather gloves: They’re machine-washable, which means no more stench. For further information, visit everdriglove.com.

PERCUSSION FOCUS Website Coverage Goes Inside (and Outside) the Arena The websites of WGI’s sponsors offer fans a different view of the 2010 Percussion Championships. Pro-Mark and Evans captured the UD Arena’s parking lot scene (promark.com and evansdrumheads .com), while Vic Firth interviewed new Hall of Famers Mike Jackson and Andy Sanders (vicfirth.com/features/ WGI2010.php). You can also find photo galleries at remo.com and pearldrum.com.

The WGI World Championships live webcasts are “multi-casts,” which means that cameras are running at each performance venue. Sam Wildman of the Coral Glades Indoor Percussion Ensemble (Fla.) watched both color guard and percussion multicasts and was impressed. “I had one tab of my Internet browser open with a performance schedule and another tab open with the webcast so I was able to know what was going on at each center,” Wildman reports. “I was not able to get to Dayton this year but this was the next best thing.” Visit wgi.org/fannetwork for more details.

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Onyx Awakens the Sleeping Giant Risky Program Pays Off With Historic Gold Medal Win

By Alex Mendoza

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n 1989, an independent Ohio color guard called Dimension first stepped onto the competitive scene.

To keep the guard growing, a feeder group called Onyx was formed in 1993; eventually Onyx became the overall ensemble name. Over two decades, the group performed admirably in WGI competition, but a World Class medal had always eluded them—until now. This year, Onyx is the Independent World color guard champion at last, having bested Fan Favorite Pride of Cincinnati and the defending champion Santa Clara Vanguard in the 2010 World Championships.

Whether one might call it fate or divine intervention, Onyx’s talented performers have definitely experienced the concept of art imitating life.

For mastering this year’s highly risky, avant-garde program, “Sleeping Giant,” was as difficult in its way as winning a gold medal. Throughout the production, the soundtrack is made up of simple ambient noises. There is no pulse, no soaring melody to connect the audience to the theme. It’s a pure display of incredibly complex motion that requires a tight connection between all the performers.

“After we finished last season I went in—as well as the rest of the staff—with the notion that we needed to aim higher,” director Mike Lentz recalls. “We had been complacent with where we were going, and I

remember wanting to show people what these performers were capable of doing. Going into auditions for the 2010 season, I knew things were different with the vibe and the performers, but that’s not to say it was all easy.”

It certainly wasn’t. The challenges lurking within this show are many and formidable, and what Onyx manages to achieve is truly a sight to behold, especially when one considers that there is no track to give them guidance.

Avon previously flirted with the lack-of-pulse concept in their programs “Which is Witch?” and “The Unanswered Question,” but Onyx’s decision to use a solely ambient track pushes the envelope in unexpected new ways.

“The entire show was only possible because we finally had the performers to do this type of show,” Lentz says. “It was surprising, to say the least, that we managed to do well, when judges, friends and even some of the performers cited their reluctance about the show this season. But everything has remained the same with shows for the past few years.

More than likely, it’s going to take time before you succeed with this new thing that no one has ever seen before. Now that we’ve made our statement, we’re going to be sure to look for other ways to do something completely different. Our goal is to push the activity as far as possible.”

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L to R: Andy Sanders, Mike Jackson, Dan Fyffe, Don Click

Percussion Legends Enter WGI Hall of Fame 2010 Inductees Share Decades of Experience and Achievement

By Cathy Applefeld Olson

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he members of the WGI Hall of Fame all share three essential traits: integrity, dedication and creativity. This year, in a special ceremony held at the Dayton Marriott on April 14, four more people joined this distinguished group. The new inductees have one further characteristic in common: They have all demonstrated the mettle to take percussion to new levels.

Don Click

As if co-founding Music City Mystique and serving as its executive director until 2006 weren’t enough, Don Click has also had a pivotal role behind the scenes of WGI, holding roles with the Board of Directors and Percussion Advisory Board, among others. He enjoys balancing the creative and business sides of the activity. “As a director and teacher, you get the thrill of seeing that performance where the light bulb goes off on top of a kid’s head, and that brings a lot of joy,” the Katy, Tex., resident says. “But at the same time, I’m a numbers person. Most people cringe when they think about

spreadsheets; I start drooling.”

Dan Fyffe It isn’t every director/arranger who gets to change the way people view concert percussion.

But that’s what Dan Fyffe and his Indianapolis-based Franklin Central Percussion Symphony did in 1998 when they performed an arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony in Dayton. “People wouldn’t even have thought percussion could do that,” Fyffe says. “We set the bar high and kept moving it up.” The ensemble went on to earn six WGI Scholastic Concert titles in seven 16 WGI FOCUS

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years. In addition to directing the bands of Franklin Central High School, Fyffe is an active member of various percussion and music education societies, including the Indiana Percussion Association, which he co-founded.

Mike Jackson Winner of an unprecedented 18 medals at the WGI Percussion World Championships, Jackson has achieved lofty success with Mission Viejo High School and several other ensembles during the past 14 years. He’s also served on numerous WGI boards and co-founded the Southern California Percussion Alliance.

“I don’t have a formula as to what inspires me,” says the Orange County, Calif., resident. “I allow everything to inspire me.” Ironically, Jackson’s favorite Mission Viejo performance—“Home,” inspired by his great-aunt and uncle’s 50th wedding anniversary—did not medal, placing fourth in 2006. “I tried to tell a love story from start to finish,” he says. “It was just one of those shows.”

Andy Sanders

Director of bands in his hometown of Southaven, Miss., Sanders has also been a WGI Percussion Judge Coordinator for the past decade. And when it comes to judging him, he is crystal clear on the legacy he hopes to leave behind. “I would hope that my greatest contribution has been the fact that I look at the activity as an educator first,” he says. “It’s not about who wins what. Whatever educational tools we need to develop, we will continue to do so… They are now reaching levels in middle school that we used to think were high levels for high school students. I just don’t see a ceiling.” www.wgi.org

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The announcer at the UD Arena says it at the start of every awards ceremony, but still it bears repeating: What you see at the WGI World Championships is the result of countless hours of hard work. This year, hundreds of talented ensembles—the best in their field—took up the challenge, and over two weekends in Dayton, they showed just how high indoor performance can soar.

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our final return will not diminish/and you can be the cream of the crop/It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish/and you’re gonna finish on top.” These wonderful lines taken from Cy Coleman’s Seesaw just might be the best description for any color guard’s season, beginning to end, friendships to finals.

Nearly 300 groups from across the globe converged on Winter Guard International’s hometown of Dayton, Ohio, for the April championship event—and no matter where they started, they all finished on top.

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A hometown giant of the color guard world, Dayton’s own Onyx, stood tall in its first World Championship win, a whirling undulating wind of experimental movement and equipment work. 2009 winner Santa Clara Vanguard (Calif.) let go of traditional staging conventions for an introspective performance of classic caliber for the silver.

Pride of Cincinnati mounted a fully rendered stage production, “Summer of Love,” in its Fans’ Favorite Award-winning bronze-medal homage to 1967.

Florida’s Northeast Independent finished fourth for the second year with the powerfully aggressive “Ruthless Gravity.”

Blessed Sacrament had something important to say: Its fifth-place “INformation” made the Massachusetts unit the longestrunning finalist in color guard. There was no end to the “Passion” Miami’s Braddock Independent unleashed for sixth place;

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Atlanta’s Crown Guard was seventh with its misty-eyed “The Last Dance,” a reflection on dance and life, while New Jersey’s Black Watch presented the swirling, breathless “Affect-Ability” for eighth. In ninth place, the new Cypress Independent (Tex.) elected to “Go Forth” with a historic look at western migration. Juxtaposition Winter Guard (Ohio) spelled it out; its tenth-place show was all about “Y O U.” As for the remaining finalists, Saturday night was memorable for New Jersey’s Alter Ego; First Flight (N.C.)’s reunion show was about the guard’s two-decade journey; and the U.K.’s Mayflower conjured sleight of hand—a funny valentine, indeed.

Making the Saturday cut as well were Diamante (Calif.), in spite of the curse of “The Devil’s Sea,” and the revolving mechanical “Music Box” of Denver’s Opus 10.

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It was a gold medal reveal, as now 11-time Scholastic World champion James Logan (Calif.) went undercover for a whiteout production of clever agility and dexterity.

Carmel (Ind.) caused delectable sugar shock on the way to its first medal—silver—with “Life is Like a Box of Chocolates.” Defending champion Avon (Ind.) lent its hands to the cause of homelessness with signature equipment and movement acumen for the bronze.

In fourth place, former champion Flanagan (Fla.) flexed its gold-medal power to illustrate the politics of “Atlas Shrugged.”

2009’s Scholastic Open champion Marian Catholic grew its World Class wings by exclaiming life’s end; in “Ashes to Ashes,” the Chicago Heights unit proclaimed its competitive life for a fifth-place finish. The pristine, delicate nature of Asian gardens gave sixth-place Arcadia (Calif.) palettes on which to paint sensory images. www.wgi.org 21

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Trumbull (Conn.) depicted the silence, the dark and the intensity of the battlefield for its highest placement ever, seventh. Warren Central (Ind.)’s “Bloodline” set a heartbeat throbbing and oozed red, in eighth. Rounding out the top ten were veteran performers Miamisburg and Choctawhatchee. The Ohio former champion showed impeccable equipment skills in “This Woman’s World”; Florida’s multimedalist sashayed its Latin assets in the jazzy “Besame Mucho.”

Remaining finalists included past scholastic champion Center Grove with the simply special “More Than Enough”; Florida’s Seminole with its own performance “Expansion Project”; “Into the West” on a ship of imagination piloted by Indiana’s Lawrence Central; Chino (Calif.)’s emotional “Storm”; and the decadent downfall of Marie Antoinette by Ohio’s venerable Centerville.

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Pure performances to classic soundtracks beloved by generations lent a distinctive formality to many Independent Open finalists. Sister unit to World champion Onyx, O2 also kept the gold medal right at home with its Parisian sensibilities and exquisitely detailed fl ag work in “To the End of the Day.” Usurpation (Ind.) grabbed the silver with the contemplative “A Simple Song,” while former Open champion Croatan (N.C.) was firmly rooted in the bronze with “The Tree of Life.”

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“Seated Perspective.” New York’s Spectrum forgot nothing, while Ancora (Mich.) offered serene meditation.

Only Miami’s FIU Performance Ensemble dared admit it: They do color guard for themselves (and took it right into ninth place). The Pride of Missouri State was tenth with “Ostinato,” followed in order by Field of View (Penn.)’s homage to Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina’s The Cast with the flowing “River God,” Michigan State University’s State of Art emerging from its 2009 A title, Canada’s Les Eclipses and its literal love quotes, and the U.K.’s Northern Academy, with a cheeky portrayal of Englishmen in New York City.

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Wielding an Olympic-style balance beam, North Carolina’s West Johnston crossed over into championship territory with a high-flying, aggressive and daring performance. Swooping in for the silver medal (through all those chamber doors) were Tarpon Springs’ (Fla.) hovering ravens.

Veteran Open Class finalist Mission Viejo (Calif.) moved across a frozen winter’s weighted path to take the bronze.

Performers as shards of stained glass became an “Apparition of Hope” for Lake Central (Ind.), earning a fourth-place finish. “This He Said to Me” was the Celtic tale fifth-place Norwin (Penn.) wove, statue-to-life transformation and all. Florida guard Crestview was feeling the love with its inspirational and controlled sixth-place show, while Santaluces only needed two steps for seventh place. A tie for eighth took place in separate gardens. King Philip Regional (Mass.) watched as a spring garwww.wgi.org 23

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den awakened; Wakefield–Maroon (N.C.) dreamed of the beauty of Juliet in a medieval setting. Kokomo (Ind.) was tenth with the ballet-inspired “Ave Maria.”

The remaining five finalists were Rancho Cucamonga (Calif.)’s circus of balance, Indiana’s Greenfield-Central’s “Off the Cuff,” Byrnes (S.C.) going postal in “Wish You Were Here,” Eastlake (Calif.)’s grand “Cathedral,” and Orchard Park (N.Y.)’s fantastical “New World Order.”

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British Columbia’s lovely Pacificaires fell slowly into their first gold medal, with a variety of pairing opportunities. From deep in the heart of …, Ars Nova evolved from lines into space for the silver medal, while Code Black’s bronze-medal Central Park serenade was as lyrical as it was alluring.

Fourth through tenth places proved that talent abounds in every classification. Cincinnati’s Consortio strummed “Strings in Three Parts,” Impact Independent (Va.) lived up to its name with “Silver Lining,” and Eclipse Independent (Minn.) were performing “Birds of a Feather.” From the Bluecoats pageantry family, Artistry IN BLUE underlined “Transversals.” National Avenue (Mo.) read “Love Me Again,” Interplay (Mich.) traversed a busy airline terminal in search of “Someday,” and Florida’s Gainesville Independent dreamed on, in pure Aerosmith fashion.

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“Somewhere in Time,” Scholastic A guards get the credit they so richly deserve … this year with Texas’ Little Elm winning the class title on the strength of a fully rendered and richly narrative performance.

Singing straight into the hearts of fans was silver medalist Lincoln-Way (Ill.) with “Duet,” a combination of appealing guard performance and stunning live vocals.

Florida’s West Broward captured the bronze on its way “out of here.”

Westerville, Ohio’s “View from the Park Bench” was a fourth-place day of fun, Georgia’s Collins Hill traversed “The Wall” for fifth, Tulsa’s Union was majestic in its sixth-place “Requiem,” and there was nothing but “Music” from seventh-place finisher Timber Creek (Fla.). Eighth-place Coral Glades (Fla.) mended “Broken Voices,” but fellow Florida unit Cypress Creek addressed “Every Time We Say Goodbye” for ninth. The top ten was completed with statuary that turned to stone from Bellbrook (Ohio).

The top 15 in the largest competitive slate also welcomed “Guitar Heroes” from Summerville, South Carolina; Naperville Central (Ill.) ladies and their female moon; the construction crew from Hagerty (Fla.); Odessa, Missouri’s “Pursuit”; and the eastern sounds of Lafayette (La.)’s “Sakura.” www.wgi.org 25

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AYALA WINS IN TWO CLASSES, FIRST-TIMERS RULE THE ROOST

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arm spring weather and a record number of enthusiastic fans greeted 178 of the finest indoor drumlines from the United States, Europe and Japan for the 18th WGI Percussion World Championships in Dayton, Ohio. The groundbreaking weekend was notable for a number of firsts: Seven of eight class champions were first-time winners in their division, one school won two classes in the same year for the first time, and this year saw the first European line competing at World Championships.

This was the third year the percussion finals have been held at UD Arena, having moved from the venerable Nutter Center in 2008. The move has been a boon for attendance, as the crowd for this year’s World Class finals on Saturday night set a new record. Here are the results from the competition:

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Pulse Percussion (Calif.) led a Golden State sweep in the World Classes, earning their first championship with “Worth the Wait.” The show espoused the virtues of patience, including a marriage proposal to a lady who waited for “Mr. Right.” Rhythm X (Ohio) got “Inspired,” literally running on their drums, and even drumming while standing on the drums of other performers who were drumming. Creating their own alternate-reality twilight zone, Music City Mystique (Tenn.) took us to a land where cymbals were spun and tossed with drumsticks.

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Riverside Community College (Calif.) used gears, gadgets and an armada of metallic sounds with their industrial-themed “My Steampunk Heart.” A pair of tributes to the military were presented by Redline (Mich.), whose “The Common Man” honored the average Joes in uniform who are our nation’s true heroes, and United Percussion (N.J.), whose “Eternal” explored the gamut of emotions faced by surviving spouses of soldiers killed in the line of duty.

With “Ice,” Aimachi (Japan) turned the floor into a shimmering ice rink with shiny silver icicles, glimmering diamonds and giant ice cubes, while Matrix (Ohio) took us to a primitive percussive ceremonial rite with “The Art of the Hand.” Eastside Fury (Mich.) broke the shackles of their emotional bondage with “Unchained,” while Blue Knights (Colo.) showed how just a few people can affect a whole arena with “REACTIONS.” Also qualifying for the finals were North Coast Academy (Mich.)’s “State of Mind,” Gateway Indoor (Mo.)’s “Biorhythm,” Timber Creek Independent (Fla.)’s “Censored,” Infinity (Fla.)’s “Time Pieces” and Tyler Junior College (Tex.)’s “Bolero and Beyond.”

PERCUSSION SCHOLASTIC WORLD The folks in the Chino Valley United School District must be proud. Three of 2010’s top six scholastic drumlines call the district home, led by Ayala (Calif.), who movingly portrayed the struggle for peace against those who violently oppose it in “Live to Tell.” Chino Hills (Calif.) advised us to take our foot off life’s accelerator once in a while with “Slow Me Down,” while Dart-

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mouth (Mass.) went to jail, surrounded by a 12-foot-tall barbed wire fence and mobile prison bars, in “Conviction.”

Mission Viejo (Calif.) moved and played light as a feather with “Ayre,” displaying the softer side of drumming. Avon (Ind.) seized the day with “Carpe Diem,” exhorting us to make the most of our time on earth, and Chino (Calif.) seized the moment, taking us back to the events surrounding the beginning of the end of South Africa’s apartheid government.

Arcadia (Calif.) created spider webs out of elastic fabric attached to drums in “Legend,” while World Class Fan Favorite winner Northglenn (Colo.) presented a spooky, creepy yet outrageously fun original musical with drumming zombies in “The Deadbeats.” Los Alamitos (Calif.) gave us a serious case of groove fever with “Contagious,” and Centerville (Ohio) made us want to get up and dance with “Rhythm Nation.”

Rounding out the finalists were Forsyth Central (Ga.)’s “Chill,” King Philip Regional (Mass.)’s “Polarize,” Walled Lake (Mich.)’s “The Ripple Effect,” Fishers (Ind.)’s “Element” and Center Grove (Ind.)’s “Don’t Give Up.”

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A butterfly fl apping its wings in Brazil may cause a tornado in China, and a drummer hitting his drum in Dayton can bring a gold medal to South Carolina. Moving up from third place following prelims, Palmetto Percussion (S.C.) took the prize with “The Butterfly Effect.” Starlight, star bright: STRYKE (Fla.) finished up among the brightest of stars with the charming “Wish,” while OC Indoor (Ore.) played in

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almost every imaginable meter with “Time Control.”

Tates Creek Indoor (Ky.) challenged our perceptions of what awaits on “The Other Side,” and George Mason University (Va.) fluidly encapsulated the movements of water with “Flow.” Pariah (Ga.) seemed to never stop moving with “Motion,” along the way displaying e-motions ranging from love to anger and everything in between.

Also making finals were Brahma from USF (Fla.)’s “PYRO,” Genesis (Mich.)’s “Capture the Moment,” Dark Sky Percussion (Ariz.)’s “The Red Thread,” Boston University (Mass.)’s “Hypnotized,” Green Thunder (Ill.)’s “Momentum” and Alternative Percussion (Calif.)’s “Underneath It All.”

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South Hills (Calif.) took the honors back to SoCal with a touching look at the most intimate of family relationships in “Mother.”

Pacifica (Calif.) reminded us that there can be silver linings even in the most frustrating circumstances with “Thank You.” Finding a passage to India, Upper Darby (Pa.) presented the bright colors and exotic modal sounds of the populous subcontinent in “The Manifestation of Shiva.”

Harpeth (Tenn.) demonstrated how music is a tie that binds us together regardless of our differences in “Bound.” For “Triad,” Trumbull (Conn.) achieved balance with an equal blending of the three primary deities of Hinduism, and Escambia (Fla.) made sure we heard them loud and clear with “LISTEN.” www.wgi.org 31

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Other finalists were Bob Jones (Ala.)’s “Center,” Kings (Ohio)’s “99 Red Balloons,” Brookwood (Ala.)’s “What If?”, Franklin Central (Ind.)’s “Moment,” Open Class Fan Favorite Milton (Ga.)’s “The Unknown” and Dixie Heights (Ky.)’s “Invention.”

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Dojo Percussion (Neb.) won it all with the largest victory margin in any of the six movement classes. “New Age of Enlightenment” used contrasting colors of brown and gold to illustrate the journey between obsolescence and progress. Salem Blue Devils (N.H.) gave a history lesson about America’s charged debate regarding whether to join World War II during the months prior to the Pearl Harbor attack.

Yellow umbrellas helped Craven (N.C.) keep dry during a thunderstorm in “Rain.” Spirit of America (Mass.) took us to the wide open spaces of the American west with

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Percussion Scholastic A “Ameriscapes,” and Solace (Fla.) played with glass-shattering intensity in “Breaking Point.”

Remaining finalists included the first European line to participate in the WGI Percussion Championships, Belgium’s DrumSpirit, with “hYpnotia”; River City Rhythm (Minn.)’s “Five Minutes”; Fusion Percussion (N.C.)’s “Trilogy of Tragedy”; eNVision Percussion (Nev.)’s “Addiction”; and Twin Cities Area Independent (Minn.)’s “Reflexity.”

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Timber Creek (N.J.) survived one of the most competitive classes of the weekend, besting 52 other lines to earn the gold. “CPU” showed us the inner workings of a finely tuned computer—which then downloaded a nasty virus. Kickapoo (Mo.) presented a wildly creative use of freeze-frame poses with “In Motion,” and the curious kids from Oceanside (Calif.) wondered why, where and how in “The Question.”

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Also qualifying for finals were Decatur Central (Ind.)’s “Accentuate the Positive,” Victor (N.Y.)’s “Reflection,” Thomas Jefferson (Va.)’s “What a Rush,” Foothill (Nev.)’s “ENERGY,” Hilton (N.Y.)’s “Symphonic Elan” and West Johnston (N.C.)’s “Ride.”

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soldier’s return to the States to spend Christmas with his family during World War II, while Muscle Shoals (Ala.) chronicled the exploits of war heroes in American history with “Letters from War.” Tunstall (Va.) took an old Dvorˇák classic in new directions for “Survivors of the New World,” and Goshen (Ind.) doubled their fun with marimbas played from both front and back in “When the Split Hits the Fans.”

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Golden (Colo.) won top accolades with the fl aming hot “Sol de Oro,” a raucous romp on the Latin side. Six bass drums gave Portsmouth (N.H.) the oomph it needed with “Selections from Scheherazade,” and Hickory (Va.) brought the “Olé!” of a bullfight to “Little Flamenco.” Remaining finalists were Clayton (N.C.) with “Dream Sequence,” East Central (Ind.) with “Hurry Up and Wait” and Glenwood Springs (Colo.) with “Where the Rivers Meet.”

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A Season of Outstanding Service Four People Who Made a Difference in 2010

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Sheila Henderson of the Light Brigade color guard (Pa.) nominated performing member Brett McSwain, recognizing him for service above and beyond the call of duty in 2010—including guard instruction and phrase writing for the group’s flag book. “Brett has been a great asset to the Light Brigade this year,” Henderson wrote. “Not only does he travel about three hours to get to practice each week, but he filled in a very important spot as our lead dancer when it became vacant suddenly.... We would like to let him know how greatly he is appreciated for going that extra mile and being a true team player.” Message heard loud and clear…

For the first time in its history, West Johnston High School’s color guard (N.C.) named a team captain this year, and her name is Lilly Hurr. “No other title would befit her,” wrote director David S. Duffy. “Out of all the students I have ever had the pleasure of teaching, Lilly is perhaps the finest.” Now a senior, Hurr has been a color guard performer since seventh grade. During her four years with West Johnston, she has made a series of star turns, appearing in the

L to R: West Johnston’s Lilly Hurr; Carmel’s Katie Hunter (R) with daughters (and guard members) Meghan and Kristin; Walled Lake’s Larenne Clark; the Light Brigade’s Brett McSwain

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the BOA Honor Marching Band. In addition, she served invaluably this past season as a student tech for the school’s A guard…

In 2006 Larenne Clark, a parent volunteer for the Walled Lake Central High School (Mich.) color guard, set up a beverage stand in the school lobby, selling coffee, smoothies and hot chocolate every morning to raise funds for the guard. Four years later, she’s still at it. Clark’s efforts have raised enough money to cover members’ travel and competition costs; they’ve also raised the guard’s visibility within the school. In the words of director Stephen Clark, her “impressive organizational skills, vision and fortitude have freed the coaches up to teach, and provided them with the tools necessary to create one of the fastest-rising teams in the WGI family...”

Rosie Queen of Carmel High School (Ind.) gave a big thumbs-up to her guard’s head sewing mom, Katie Hunter, who has sewn every flag spun by a Carmel member since 2007 and every pillow cover for the ensemble’s 2008 show “Cloud 9.” Before this season, she also served as head guard mom. Hunter “is a perfectionist and makes the most gorgeous flags I’ve ever seen,” Queen wrote. “She has such a ‘can do’ attitude, it’s inspiring. She is truly the best ‘guard mom’ I’ve ever been privileged to work with!”… Congratulations to all this year’s WGI MVPs.

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