Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps

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Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps
Location San Antonio, Texas
DivisionOpen Class
Founded2012
DirectorMichael Bell
Website www.guardiansdbc.org

The Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in San Antonio, Texas, the Guardians perform in Drum Corps International (DCI) competitions. [1]

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History

Johnathan Doerr, a 19-year-old student at Texas Tech University approached his best friend, Isaac Lee, former drum major of the Blue Devils with the idea of a community-based local touring drum corps in the Central Texas area. On October 28, 2012, Doerr founded the Central Texas Drum Corps Initiative in San Marcos, the organization which would become the Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps. A meeting was held in Seguin in December to gauge community support. With 25 people attending, a decision was made to go forward with developing the future performing unit with its base relocated to Seguin. [2]

When, in early 2013, DCI announced the introduction of two new activities for small competitive units, DrumLine Battle and SoundSport, Doerr saw that he could use SoundSport as a means of helping to start the new corps. [3]

The inaugural membership/rehearsal meeting of the Guardians was held in Seguin in March. Fifteen potential members were in attendance. Aid and assistance was soon forthcoming from established drum corps such as Open Class corps Genesis and Legends, Texas' World Class corps the Crossmen, and all-age corps the Vigilantes, as well as music businesses, interested individuals, and DCI. The corps also grew in size, rapidly approaching the SoundSport maximum of 50, with members coming from throughout Texas.

In June, the Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps undertook a short, in-state tour, giving several performances and concluding with a SoundSport exhibition at the DCI Southwestern Championship regional competition at the Alamodome in San Antonio.

Continuing to develop slowly, with an eye focused on the financial bottom line, the Guardians entered DCI Open Class competition in 2014. Fielding a corps of 112 members (56 brass, 16 battery percussion, 12 front ensemble, 24 auxiliary/guard, 4 drum majors), the unit entered only two contests, both in its home state of Texas, at Round Rock (which was rained out) and San Antonio.

In April 2015, the Guardians again relocated, this time to Houston.

In 2016, the corps had a much longer season, including a three-week-long spring training and eight competitions, including both open class and world class finals, as opposed to the previous year's three. In addition, the corps received a sponsorship from System Blue, and as such, got new instruments from them.

Show summary (2013–24)

Source: [4]

Key
Light blue background indicates DCI Open Class Finalist
Pale green background indicates DCI World Class Semifinalist
YearRepertoireWorld Championships
ScorePlacement
2013The Eternal Quest
Apocalyptic (Symphony No. 8) by Anton Bruckner / Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) by Gustav Mahler / Nimrod (from Enigma Variations) by Edward Elgar / Children's March (Over the Hills and Far Away) by Percy Grainger 		Did not attend World Championships
2014Terra Nova
Ecstatic Waters by Steven Bryant / Third Symphony, Mvt. 2 Allegro Molto by Aaron Copland / Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) by Gustav Mahler / Daphnis and Chloé - Scene 3 by Maurice Ravel / Old Hundredth (Doxology) by Loys Bourgeois / Original Music by Daniel Montoya Jr. & Sarah Santa Cruz
2015Light of Gold
Grand Piano Music, Part II: On the Dominant Divide by John Adams / Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach / Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre / Original Music by Daniel Montoya Jr. & Robbie Green
2016Radioactive
Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 by Hector Berlioz / Radioactive by Melvyn Gonzalez, Alexander Grant, Ben McKee. Josh Mosser, Dan Platzman, Dan Reynolds & Wayne Sermon (Imagine Dragons) / Radioactive by Daniel Montoya Jr. & Benjamin Pyles / The Adoration of Veless and Ala (from Scythian Suite) by Sergei Prokofiev / Creep by Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Ed O'Brien & Phil Selway (Radiohead); Albert Hammond & Mike Hazlewood / Everything In Its Right Place by Thom Yorke (Radiohead) / The National Anthem by Thom Yorke, Colin Greenwood & Phil Selway (Radiohead) / Church Windows, Mvt. II by Ottorino Respighi / Toxic by Cathy Dennis, Christian Karlsson, Pontus Winnberg & Henrik Jonback / Original Music by Daniel Montoya Jr. & Robbie Green		64.45011th Place
Open Class
Finalist
64.98832nd Place
World Class
2017My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Dark Fantasy by Kanye West, Robert Diggs (RZA), Ernest Wilson (No I.D.), Jeff Bhasker, Mike Dean, Malik Yusef Jones, Jon Anderson & Mike Oldfield / Power by Kanye West, Larry Griffin, Jr. (Symbolyc One), Dean Bhasker, Andwele Gardner (Dwele), Ken Lewis, Francois Bernheim, Jean-Pierre Lang, Boris Bergman, Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald & Peter Sinfield / Heartless by Kanye West, Ernest Wilson, Scott Mescudi (Kid Cudi) & Malik Yusef Jones / All of the Lights by Kanye West, Dean Bhasker, Malik Yusef Jones & Warren Trotter (Really Doe) / Runaway by Kanye West, Terrence Thornton (Pusha T), Emile Haynie, Jeff Bhasker, Mike Dean & John Roger Branch / Symphony in B♭ & Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber by Paul Hindemith, Original Music by Daniel Montoya Jr., Doug Bush & Patricia Islas		69.73810th Place
Open Class
Finalist
67.83833rd Place
World Class
2018Damned
Halo by Ryan Tedder, Evan Bogart & Beyoncé Knowles / Cocoa Butter Kisses by Chancelor Jonathan Bennett (Chance the Rapper) / Sunrise by Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) / Sweatpants by Donald Glover, Ludwig Göransson & Jason Martin (Problem) / Praying by Kesha Sebert, Andrew Joslyn, Ben Abraham & Ryan Lewis / HUMBLE. by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Michael Williams (Mike Will Made It & Asheton Hogan / Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection) by Gustav Mahler / H•a•m by Shawn Carter (Jay-Z), Kanye West & Lexus Lewis (Lex Luger / No Church In the Wild by James Brown, Shawn Carter, Michael Dean, Christopher Francis (Frank Ocean), Phil Manzanera, Terius Nash (The-Dream), Charles Njapa (88-Keys), Joseph Roach, Kanye West & Gary Wright / Original Music by Daniel Montoya Jr., Doug Bush & Patricia Islas		71.8757th Place
Open Class
Finalist
71.20029th Place
World Class
2019Unpeeled
Palladio by Karl Jenkins / Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails by Irving Berlin / Suit & Tie by Justin Timberlake / Across the Universe by John Lennon / La Valse à Mille Temps by Jacques Brel 		73.5757th Place
Open Class
Finalist
70.97529th Place
World Class
2020Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021Contrary
Theme from The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Back That Azz Up by Juvenile / Careless Whisper by George Michael & Andrew Ridgely (Wham!) / Work It by Missy Elliott / Original Music by Ben Hylton, Matt Penland, & Tyler Sammons		No scored competitions
2022From Scratch...
Turning Tables by Adele / Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler / Y'all Get Back Now by Big Freedia / Original Music by Ben Hylton, Matt Penland & Tyler Sammons		79.2135th Place
Open Class
Finalist
73.92524th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2023i know the end.
Sound & Color by Alabama Shakes / X. Adjuah (I Own The Night) by Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (Christian Scott) / Everything in its Right Place by Radiohead / Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance / Original Music by Ben Hylton, Matt Penland & Tyler Sammons		72.6886th Place
Open Class
Finalist
74.57527th Place
World Class
2024Going Places
Clutch by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Like Kids (from Cirque du Soleil's “Volta”) by M83 / The Beating of our Hearts (from The Symphony of Us) by Pinar Toprak / What You Mean to Me (from Finding Neverland) by Scott Frankel 		Did not attend World Championships

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  2. ↑ "Field Pass: The dream of starting a drum corps becomes a reality". Drum Corps International. July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Guardians aim to use SoundSport as a springboard to Open Class competition". Drum Corps International. July 25, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
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