Oregon Crusaders organization

Oregon Crusaders

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Location	Portland, Oregon
Founded	1971 and 1999 and 2001 and 2007
Volunteer Administrator	Mike Quillen
Board President	Philip Marshall
Championship titles	DCI Division III: 2004 DCI Open Class: 2012 WGI Percussion Open Class: 2009
Website	www.oregoncrusaders.org

Oregon Crusaders is a 501c3 nonprofit youth performing arts organization. Based in Portland, Oregon, the organization sponsored a member drum corps of Drum Corps International from 2001 to 2018 (in World Class from 2013 to 2018). The drum corps went inactive after the 2018 season. The organization also sponsored a winter percussion ensemble, OC Indoor, which competed from 2009 to 2018 at competitions in the Northwest Association for Performing Arts and Winter Guard International circuits. The organization also sponsored Oregon Crusaders Independent Colorguard, aka "Compass Rose" in 2014 and 2015. The organization continues to run the DCI show in the Portland, Oregon area.

History

The original Oregon Crusaders junior drum and bugle corps was founded in Oregon City in 1971 by brothers Ron and David Jones, with 15-year-old David as Corps Director and 16-year-old Ron as composer, arranger, and drill designer. The first year corps consisted of a drill team with drumline, and is distinguished for suffering a bus breakdown as its 40 members were en route to the unit's only scheduled performance. The brothers reorganized in 1972, acquiring sponsorship of the Dickinson’s Gourmet Preserves Company (now owned by Smuckers) and fielded as Dickinson’s Oregon Crusaders. In 1973, the corps merged with the Imperial Cadets and marched as the 115 member Imperial Crusaders, but returned as the Oregon Crusaders in 1974 when the two corps split. After the Jones brothers aged out, the corps lapsed into inactivity. ^{[1] (See Note)}

In 1999, Rick Wise inaugurated a corps in Medford then known as the Southern Oregon Crusaders, though not affiliated with the original entity. In 2001, a collection of Southern Oregon Crusaders personnel along with a new group of staff members moved to reorganize the unit. Bill Perkins was named executive director, and Portland, Oregon was designated as the corps' new home. From 2001 to 2003, the growing corps performed throughout the western US. In 2004, the corps traveled throughout the Western United States on its way to the DCI World Championships in Denver, where the corps won the Division III title, to complete an undefeated season.

Following the departure of most staff members to run the Seattle Cascades in the fall of 2006, the corps was restarted yet again by Dr. Philip Marshall, Travis Moddison, Jeff Bush and Mike Quillen, with the assistance of Lonnie Doi, Larry Kriegshauser and Rob DenHartigh. Phil Marshall was named Executive Director. In 2009, Mike Quillen was named Executive Director, and was promoted to CEO of the organization in 2013.

The 2016 Oregon Crusaders

In the summer of 2012, the Oregon Crusaders had an undefeated year and won the Open Class World Championship with a score of 95.250, along with high brass, high visual performance, and high general effect. The corps went on to achieve 19th in World Class.

In 2013 the corps moved to World Class.

In January, 2019, the organization announced that it would not field a corps in 2019.

The Oregon Crusaders Independent Percussion Ensemble, organized in 2008, took first place at the 2009 WGI World Championships in the Percussion Independent A (PIA) and finished 3rd in 2010. In the 2011 season, the unit moved into World Class competition and has finished in WGI Independent World Class Finals in 2011, 2013, and 2014. ^{[1] [2]} Compass Rose, formerly the Oregon Crusaders Independent Colorguard has been a finalist in WGI Independent Open World Finals in 2014 and 2015. ^[3]

Note: The Jones brothers have established an attachment to the new organization and credit their experience in operating the original Oregon Crusaders for their later success in life. David, having been responsible for the corps' travel, today is vice president of a major, premium travel agency. Ron continued in music and is a successful Emmy- and Grammy-nominated composer of film and television soundtracks, and co-arranged the corps's 2003 program "Mysterious Mountain". ^[1]

Show Summary (2000-2018)

Source: ^[4]

Gold background indicates DCI Championship; pale blue background indicates DCI Class Finalist; pale green background indicates DCI semifinalist; pale purple background indicates Open Class finalist (but not champion) and World Class semifinalist.

Year	Theme	Repertoire	Score	DCI Placement
2000	Music With a Latin Flair	Living La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin / Smooth by Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas / Hot, Hot, Hot by Alphonsus Cassell aka Arrow
2001	Fantasia 2000	Fifth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven / The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas / Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky
2002	Stormworks	The Storm, Mourning of Destruction & Rebuilding (from Stormworks) by Stephen Melillo
2003	Mysterious Mountain - A tribute to the music of Alan Hovhaness	Mysterious Mountain (Symphony 1) & Mount St. Helens Symphony (Symphony 50) by Alan Hovhaness
2004	Metro Metal	Bronze: Ride by Samuel Hazo / Silver: Sleep by Eric Whitacre / Gold: Tempered Steel by Charles Rochester Young	65.150 87.425	1st Div. III 7th Divs. II/III
2005	The Sands of Time	Festival of Light by Stephen Melillo / Vintage by David Gillingham / Original Music by Lewis Norfleet	88.575 88.600	7th Div. II 9th Divs. II/III
2006	Echo	Echo by Lewis Norfleet / Snow Caps by Richard Saucedo / Equus by Eric Whitacre	92.675	4th Div. II
2007	Gates	1000 Airplanes on the Roof by Philip Glass / Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra by Ney Rosauro / Acrostic Song (from Final Alice) by David Del Tredici / Wild Nights (from Harmonium) by John Adams	80.750	5th Div. III
2008	Inner Connections	Inner Connections by Todd Zimbelman and Nancy Galbraith	93.025	4th Open Class
2009	Equilibrium	Philadelphia Stories by Michael Daugherty	87.950	8th Open Class
2010	Dance of the Flames	The Dance of the Flames by Arno Elias / Arabian Waltz by Rabih Abou-Khalil / Of Sailors and Whales by W. Francis McBeth / Hope (from The Prayer Cycle) by Jonathon Elias / Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey	94.000	2nd Open Class
2011	The Blue Hour	Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven / Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli / A Hymn to a Blue Hour by John Mackey / Variciones Concertantes, Op. 23 by Alberto Ginastera	94.700 75.150	2nd Open Class 22nd World Class
2012	Dreaming In Color	Sleep by Eric Whitacre / Detours by Travis Moddison / El Tango de Roxanne (from Moulin Rouge!) by Sting and Mariano Mores, adapted by Craig Armstrong / Libertango by Astor Piazolla / Channel One Suite by Bill Reddie / Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin / Fantasia on the Dargason by Gustav Holst / Rondeau (from Abdelazer) by Henry Purcell / Simple Gifts by Joseph Brackett / Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey	95.250 77.450	1st Open Class 19th World Class
2013	My Heart, My Battle, My Soul	Going Home (from New World Symphony) by Antonín Dvořák, adapted by William Arms Fisher / Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) by George Gershwin / House of the Rising Sun (Traditional) / Rolling In The Deep by Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (Adele) / Jericho by Morton Gould	81.050	17th
2014	Nevermore	Mind Heist (from Inception) by Zack Hemsey / Huanpango by Kevin Walczyk / The Alabados Song by Paul Bissell / The Hymn of Acxiom & My Medea by Vienna Teng / Nocturne, Op. 33 & Medea's Dance of Vengeance. Op. 23A by Samuel Barber	80.100	19th
2015	The Midnight Garden	Cinderella Suite (No. 1, I. Introduction: No 1, III. Quarrel: No 1, VII. Cinderella's Waltz) by Sergei Prokofiev / Lavender's Blue (Traditional) / Who Is She? & Pumpkin Pursuit (from Cinderella) by Patrick Doyle	78.550	17th
2016	Hunted	Hunter by Björk / NO one To kNOW one by Andy Akiho / Who Wants to Live Forever by Brian May (Queen)/ Knights of Cydonia by Matthew Bellamy (Muse) / Death Hunt by Bernard Herrmann	79.725	18th
2017	EnCompass	Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar / Only Time by Enya / Where The Streets Have No Name by Bono / The Edge by Adam Clayton, & Larry Mullen Jr. (U2)	79.050	20th
2018	REDЯUM	Dies Irae by Hector Berlioz / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste by Bela Bartok Uninvited by Alanis Morissette / Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns / Midnight and the Stars and You by Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly / Symphony for Organ and Orchestra by Aaron Copland	77.100	22nd

Traditions

2012 OC's Victory photo

Corps Song

"Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen

Corps Symbol

The symbol of the Oregon Crusaders is the OC compass rose.

Corps Tagline

The tagline or slogan of the organization is "Performance. Art."

The Walk

On the final rehearsal evening of the season, the corps members march forward 5 yards for every year they have been in the corps.

Cape Day

On the last full day of rehearsal it has become traditional for the entire corps to wear a cape--- usually a towel. In addition, the soprano bugles/trumpets wear a tie with their cape. Most of the corps calls the day, "Cape Day" while the trumpets refer to it as "Trumpet Cape And Tie Day".

Oregon Water

Before tour, a hornline rookie is assigned to purchase a jug of water bottled only in Oregon. The hornline then shares the water to drink before the corps' final performance.

Dave the Tree

At the start of all-days the trumpets are donated an Oregon-grown Douglas fir sapling which is then dubbed "Dave" to nurture over the summer. This originated in 2012 when the trumpet section found an abandoned potted tree at their housing site in Tillamook, Oregon. During the age-out ceremony on semi-finals day the age-outs take the tree onto the field, where it is left.

References

1. http://www.oregoncrusaders.org/main/site/about-oc/
2. "Percussion Historical Scores". Winter Guard International. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
3. "Color Guard Historical Scores". Winter Guard International. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
4. "Oregon Crusaders/Repertoire". DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience. Retrieved 8 March 2018.

External links

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• Oregon Crusaders website
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• Winter Guard International website