Legends Drum and Bugle Corps

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Legends Drum & Bugle Corps
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Location Kalamazoo, MI
DivisionOpen Class
Founded2001 / 2006
DirectorIbe Sodawalla

The Legends Drum & Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Legends performs in Drum Corps International (DCI) competitions. [1]

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History

What is now the Legends Drum and Bugle Corps had its beginnings in Portage, Michigan in 2001 as an indoor winter brass and percussion ensemble at Portage Central High School.

The unit added a color guard in 2006 and performed in exhibition at several DCI shows that summer and the next.

Legends entered DCI competition in 2008, making semifinals and placing 15th of 23 corps at the DCI Open Class Championships at Michigan City, Indiana.

The corps gained the Open Class Finals in 2009, placing 10th and earning awards for Most Improved Corps, Most Outstanding Drum Major (Kelly Koch), and Open Class Director of the Year.

The corps has since remained as an Open Class finalist and has won additional awards as Most Improved Corps and for Most Outstanding Drum Major.

In 2015, Legends placed 5th at the DCI Open Class Championships and 25th overall at the DCI World Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, and earning their first semifinals spot in their 10th Anniversary season. The corps was again named the Most Improved Open Class corps, and corps director Ibe Sodawalla received the 2015 Dr. David Kampschroer Leadership Award as Open Class Director of the Year. [2]

2016 was the year the corps broke top 3 in DCI Open Class Championships and earned their highest score to date. Again, Legends made it to semifinals, this year earning 24th place. Noah Koch of Legends also won the Jim Jones Leadership Award for DCI Open Class Drum Major of the Year.

On November 17, 2022, Legends announced that the corps would go inactive for the 2023 season, citing increasing costs of touring that the corps was unable to meet. [3]

Sponsorship

Legends Drum & Bugle Corps is sponsored by the Legends Performing Arts Association, a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) musical organization. The corps director is Ibe Sodawalla. The organization continues to support the original Portage Central High School Indoor Performance Ensemble. It also sponsored Legends Percussion, an indoor percussion ensemble that competes in Winter Guard International. Legends Percussion was inactive for the 2017 Winter Guard International season. [4]

Show summary (2006–2022)

Source: [5]

Key
Light blue background indicates DCI Open Class Finalist
Pale green background indicates DCI World Class Semifinalist
    YearThemeRepertoireWorld Championships
    ScorePlacement
    2006Ballet Sacra by David Holsinger / Malaguena by Ernesto Lecuona Did not attend World Championships
    2007In PermoveoBallet Sacra by David Holsinger
    2008Evolutional ProcuratioNew Beginnings by Peter Boyer 82.00015th Place
    Open Class
    2009IncrementumDaphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel 81.95010th Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    2010RuinsVesuvius by Frank Ticheli / Eruption (from the Tarkus Suite) by Keith Emerson / Pines of Rome & Fountains of Rome by Ottorino Respighi / Unstoppable by Helmut and Franz Vonlichten (E.S. Posthumus) / Prelude - Main Title (from Ben-Hur) by Miklós Rózsa 86.2008th Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    2011SkyscapesCloudburst by Eric Whitacre / You Are (Variations) by Steve Reich / Pagodes (from Estampes) by Claude Debussy / Gold Rush by Jacob ter Veldhuis / Aurora Awakes by John Mackey 82.3009th Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    60.65034th Place
    World Class
    2012The Edmund FitzgeraldFour Sea Interludes by Benjamin Britten / The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot / Coming Home From The Sea (from The Perfect Storm) & Bishop's Countdown (from Aliens) by James Horner 83.9508th Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    63.40030th Place
    World Class
    2013IchabodMain Titles (from Sleepy Hollow) by Danny Elfman / The Vote (from The Village) by James Newton Howard / Chester Overture by William Schuman / Shepherd's Hey by Percy Grainger / The Chase (from Sleepy Hollow) by Danny Elfman85.7008th Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    68.40029th Place
    World Class
    2014La CathédraleThe Sunken Cathedral by Claude Debussy / Stained Glass by David Gillingham / Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre / Gloria, Mvt. 3 (Vivace e ritmico) by John Rutter 73.6757th Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    71.00029th Place
    World Class
    2015The ClimbAscent by Key Poulan, Paul Rennick & Sandra Rennick / The Mountain (from The Bucket List) by Marc Shaiman / Avalanche (from Vertical Limit) by James Newton Howard / The Climb by Jon Mabe & Jessi Alexander 75.1255th Place Open Class Finalist
    70.25025th Place
    World Class
    Semifinalist
    2016The GridThe Grid (from Tron: Legacy) by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo & Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk) / Main Title from Paycheck by John Powell / Virus Attack by Amin Bhatia / Adagio for Tron (from Tron: Legacy) by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo & Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk) / NO one To kNOW one by Andy Akiho / Mona Lisa Overdrive (from Matrix Reloaded) by Don Davis & Juno Reactor 76.5003rd Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    73.15024th Place
    World Class
    Semifinalist
    2017The SignalDefine Dancing (from Wall-E) by Thomas Newman & Peter Gabriel / Mothership by Mason Bates / Satellite by James Pluth / "The Sound of Silence" by Paul Simon / Hyperjump (from Wall-E) by Thomas Newman / Stargate Overture by David Arnold 77.2503rd Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    76.22522nd Place
    World Class
    Semifinalist
    2018Along Came a SpiderThe Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky / Itsy Bitsy Spider (Traditional) / Symphony No. 8, Mvt. 3 by Dmitri Shostakovich / Aha! by Imogen Heap / Spider-Man Theme by Paul Francis Webster & Robert "Bob" Harris / Water Night by Eric Whitacre / Metropolis Symphony, Mvt. 1 (Lex) by Michael Daugherty 76.3504th Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    74.40026th Place
    World Class
    2019Song of the SirenLa Mer by Claude Debussy / Pure Imagination by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley / Aquarium (from Carnival of the Animals) by Camille Saint-Saëns / Genie in a Bottle by David Frank, Steve Kipner & Pamela Sheyne / Finale (from The Abyss) by Alan Silvestri / Symphony No. 10 by Dmitri Shostakovich 79.4002nd Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    78.40021st Place
    World Class
    Semifinalist
    2020Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
    2021Opted out of competition for the season
    2022May Your Light Shine ForeverIlia’s Theme (from Star Trek: The Motion Picture) by Jerry Goldsmith / Mothership by Mason Bates / Requiem For a Dream by Clint Mansell / Midnight City by M83 / Maiden Voyage by James Pluth / Squib Cakes by Tower of Power / For Good (from Wicked) by Stephen Schwartz / From Now On (from The Greatest Showman) by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul 74.7508th Place
    Open Class
    Finalist
    72.97529th Place
    World Class
    2023Corps Inactive

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    2. ↑ "Recap Roundup: Open Class World Championship Finals". Drum Corps International. August 8, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
    3. ↑ Legends Performing Arts (17 November 2022). "Legends to be inactive for 2023 Season". Legends Performing Arts. Archived from the original on 18 November 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
    4. ↑ "Staff". Legends Performing Arts Association. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
    5. ↑ "Legends". DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
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