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WINTER 2013 Volume 27, Issue 1
Winter Guard International Ron Nankervis Executive Director Bart Woodley Director of Operations Aaron Jenkins Marketing & Communications Manager Published By: In Tune Partners, LLC Irwin Kornfeld CEO Will Edwards President Angelo Biasi Publisher Mac Randall Editor-in-Chief Jackie Jordan Creative Director Robin Garber Production Director Barbara Boughton Business Manager Contributing Writers: Michael Boo, Debbie Galante Block, Cathy Applefeld Olson, Michael Reed, Ken Schlager Photography: Adam Alonzo, Jolesch Photography, Christine Rivard, Dan Scafidi, SFWGA, Linda Unser, Sid Unser WGI FOCUS is an educational publication of WGI Sport of the Arts. Its purpose is to broaden communication within the family of color guards and percussion ensembles. FOCUS is published three times per year. WGI FOCUS is a free publication with a circulation of 14,000 copies and 12,000 online viewers. All members of the WGI family may submit articles for consideration. WGI reserves the right to edit all submitted material. If your address has changed, please notify the WGI office. Failure to do this could result in the loss of your WGI FOCUS subscription. We don’t want to lose touch with you!
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INSIDE 7 ENSEMBLE
New smartphone and tablet apps for a new season ... The debut of one WGI sponsor and the return of another ... Indoor marching fans get to share the excitement on Pinterest and Instagram ... Spinfest!! and Drumfest!! reports from the road ... What Fan Network viewers watched most in 2012 ... Walled Lake Central director Nick Pourcho profiled ... and much more!
14 CLOSE-UP
Blessed Sacrament has been a force in the color guard world for decades, and that definitely isn’t because they followed a formula.
16 SPOTLIGHT
The schedule and range of WGI’s Elite Events are expanding in 2013.
20 DON’T MISS DAYTON!
It won’t be long until April—here are our top 10 reasons why you need to make plans now for a trip to the WGI World Championships.
25 WHATEVER IT TAKES
From cooking to carpentry, from sewing fl ags and uniforms to driving group buses, the parents of WGI performers do it all, and the activity is immeasurably better for it.
28 CLINIC
We all know that good technique is a crucial part of performance, but how can you focus on it when you’ve got a whole show to rehearse?
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For advertising information please contact Aaron Jenkins; phone: 937-247-5919; email: aaron@wgi.org WINTER GUARD INTERNATIONAL 2405 Crosspointe Drive Dayton, OH 45342 937-247-5919 office@wgi.org www.wgi.org
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The chest that Norwin HS guard members are leaning on in this picture was built by one of their parents.
30 SCHOLARSHIP
Northglenn High School’s Taylor Marvin credits WGI with giving him invaluable experience and offering important life lessons.
34 WHAT’S YOUR WGIQ?
See if you can find the differences between two seemingly identical photographs of Music City Mystique. Trumbull HS
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