Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps

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Santa Clara Vanguard
Drum and Bugle Corps
Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps logo.png
Location Santa Clara, California
DivisionWorld Class
Founded1967
DirectorGio Bastante
Championship titles
  • 1970
  • 1983
  • 1971
  • 1973
  • 1974
  • 1978
  • 1981
  • 1989
  • 1999 (tie)
  • 2018
Website www.scvanguard.org
SCV 50th anniversary logo, 2017 SCV 50th Anniversary logo.jpg
SCV 50th anniversary logo, 2017

Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps is a competitive drum and bugle corps, based in Santa Clara, California. The Santa Clara Vanguard is one of the thirteen founding member corps of Drum Corps International (DCI) and a seven time DCI World Champion, winning the title most recently in 2018.

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The Santa Clara Vanguard in 2008 Santaclaravanguard08.jpg
The Santa Clara Vanguard in 2008

History

In March 1967, citing differences of opinion in the artistic direction of the Sparks Drum and Bugle Corps, its parents support group voted to return the corps to its former activity as a drum and lyre corps with majorettes. After the vote, three adults took members aside and asked them if they would prefer to continue as a drum and bugle corps or to return to a drum and lyre corps. After the members chose a drum and bugle corps, their parents immediately started a new booster club to support the new corps. They waited until its members met for rehearsal the following week to select a name. After discussing and rejecting several possible names, the corps chose Santa Clara Vanguard. Gail Royer, a local elementary school music teacher and instructor for the Sparks, was named as the director for the new corps. [1]

In 1968, the corps embarked on its first tour to the Midwest. Although they did not place high at any of the competitions, the tour was a success because of the experience and exposure to the national drum corps scene. The corps also won its first field show that year in August 1968, at the Anaheim Kingsmen's Festival of Music. Santa Clara Vanguard capped off its year by winning the first of many California State Open Championships.

In 1971, the Blue Stars, Cavaliers, Madison Scouts, Santa Clara Vanguard, and the Troopers formed the Midwest Combine. This action was taken in reaction to the rigid rules of the American Legion and VFW and the low or nonexistent performance fees paid for appearing in the various competitions. The corps felt that not only were they having their creative potential as artistic performing groups stifled, but they were being financially starved. A similar group of eastern corps, the United Organization of Junior Corps (also known as the "Alliance"), was formed by the 27th Lancers, Garfield Cadets, Boston Crusaders, Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights, and Blue Rock. The Combine members felt that the corps should be making their own rules, operating their own competitions and championships, and keeping the bulk of the proceeds that those shows earned. For the 1971 season, the corps stuck together, offering show promoters the five corps as a package. Despite pressure on show sponsors, judges, and other drum corps, the Combine was a success. [2]

In 1972, the Santa Clara Vanguard, along with the nine other corps from the Midwest Combine and the Alliance, plus the Anaheim Kingsmen, Argonne Rebels, and De La Salle Oaklands were the founding members of Drum Corps International. At the first DCI World Championships in Whitewater, Wisconsin, Santa Clara Vanguard finished in third place. Santa Clara would remain among DCI's top three corps for the organization's first eight years, winning the World Championships in 1973, 1974, 1978.

Santa Clara Vanguard won its fourth DCI World Championship in 1981. Over the next seven years, Santa Clara Vanguard never placed below third before winning its fifth DCI title in 1989. They won their sixth DCI World Championship in 1999 and their seventh in 2018. [3]

Since Drum Corps International's founding in 1972, Santa Clara Vanguard had been the only corps to appear as a finalist in every World Championship, until in December 2022, Vanguard Music & Performing Arts announced that the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps would be placed on hiatus for the 2023 season due to multiple financial issues from the previous season. [4] On September 8, 2023, Santa Clara Vanguard confirmed their plans to return for the 2024 season, alongside the announcement of their management team, design team, and their new CEO, Dr. Russell Gavin.

Show summary (1972–2024)

Source: [5]

Key
Pale blue background indicates DCI World Class Finalist [lower-alpha 1]
Dark gold background indicates DCI World Class Champion [lower-alpha 1]
  1. 1 2 From 1972-1991, Santa Clara Vanguard competed in Open Class; from 1992-2007 in Division I, and since 2008 in World Class. These are the same tier, just renamed.
YearRepertoireScorePlacement
1972Fanfare and Allegro by Clifton Williams / Henry V by Sir William Walton / Now Thank We All Our God by Johann Crüger, Martin Rinkart & Catherine Winkworth / Wedding Celebration, The Bottle Dance, If I Were A Rich Man & Chava Ballet Sequence (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick 87.353rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1973Fanfare and Allegro by Clifton Williams / Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten / Wedding Celebration, The Bottle Dance & Chava Ballet Sequence (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick 88.651st Place
Open Class
Champion
1974Siegfried's Rhine Journey (from Götterdämmerung) by Richard Wagner / Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten / Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein / A Little Night Music, Weekend in the Country & Send In the Clowns (from A Little Night Music) by Stephen Sondheim / The Bottle Dance (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick 89.501st Place
Open Class
Champion
1975Entrance of the Emperor and His Court (from the Hary Janos Suite) by Zoltán Kodály / Dance of the Buffoons by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / To Life, If I Were A Rich Man, Sabbath Prayer, Chava Ballet & The Bottle Dance (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick 91.002nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1976Hary Janos Suite by Zoltán Kodály / Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland / Black Orchid by Neal Hefti / Send In the Clowns (from A Little Night Music) by Stephen Sondheim 89.503rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1977Overture to a New Era by Caesar Giovannini / Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland / Make Our Garden Grow (from Candide) by Leonard Bernstein 89.853rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1978Overture to a New Era by Caesar Giovannini / Dance of Welcome, Adagio, Lezghinka & Hopak (from Gayane) by Aram Khachaturian / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / The Bottle Dance (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick 91.551st Place
Open Class
Champion
1979Verdi's Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi / Adagio, Lezghinka & Hopak (from Gayane) by Aram Khachaturian / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / The Bottle Dance (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick 90.703rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1980Fanfare Symphony No. 4 Opus 36 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Procession of the Nobles by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Stone Ground Seven by Roger Kellaway / Selections from Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice / Jupiter (from The Planets) by Gustav Holst 85.607th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1981Northridge by David Schafer / Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten / Slava by Leonard Bernstein / Don't Cry For Me Argentina (from Evita) by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice 94.001st Place
Open Class
Champion
1982Third Symphony, Fourth Movement by Vittorio Giannini / Capriccio Espagnol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Slava by Leonard Bernstein / Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland / The Bottle Dance (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick 93.552nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1983Third Symphony, Fourth Movement by Vittorio Giannini / On the Town by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden & Adolph Green / Appalachian Spring & Dream Sequence (from The Red Pony) by Aaron Copland 92.753rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1984Fanfare and Allegro by Clifton Williams / Musika Bohema by Zdeněk Lukáš / On the Town by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden & Adolph Green / Tender Land by Aaron Copland 97.403rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1985Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Grover's Corner (from Our Town), Tender Land & The Red Pony by Aaron Copland 97.202nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1986Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky 97.002nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1987Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed / Dance of the Tumblers by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Lezghinka & Lullaby (from Gayane) by Aram Khachaturian / Hut of Baba Yaga & The Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky 97.802nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1988Phantom of the Opera
Music of the Night, Angel of Music, Phantom of the Opera, Masquerade, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, Track Down This Murderer & All I Ask Of You
All from The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
96.902nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
1989Phantom of the Opera
Angel of Music, Masquerade, Think of Me, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, All I Ask Of You, Track Down This Murderer & Music of the Night
All from The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
98.801st Place
Open Class
Champion
1990Carmen
Prelude and March, Intermezzo, March of the Toreadors, Changing of the Guard, Allegro Moderato, La Habanera & Gypsy Dance
All from Carmen by Georges Bizet
94.006th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1991Miss Saigon
Overture - What's This I Find?, Sun and Moon, Morning of the Dragon, Wedding Ceremony & The Fall of Saigon
All from Miss Saigon by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.
94.404th Place
Open Class
Finalist
1992Fiddler on the Roof
Tradition, Sabbath Prayer, To Life, Chava Ballet, Wedding Celebration & The Bottle Dance
All from Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick
91.807th Place
Division I
Finalist
1993Walton Trilogy
Johannesburg Festival Overture, Richard III & Agincourt Song (from Henry V)
All by Sir William Walton
90.407th Place
Division I
Finalist
1994The Red Poppy
Hymn to Red October (from The Hunt for Red October) by Basil Poledouris / Triumphal Dance of the Coolies, Chinese Dances, Phoenix & Russian Sailor's Dance (from The Red Poppy) by Reinhold Glière / The Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky
92.305th Place
Division I
Finalist
1995Not the Nutcracker
The Clock Breaks by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / War of the Nuts by Dave Carico / Romance and Seduction, Celebration & The Journey Concludes by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
91.906th Place
Division I
Finalist
1996La Mer
La Mer, Mvt. 1 by Claude Debussy / Oceans by Goff Richards / The Skyboat (from Waterworld) by James Newton Howard / La Mer, Mvt. 3 by Claude Debussy
92.305th Place
Division I
Finalist
1997Fog City Sketches
Lonely Town & Pas de Deux (from On the Town) / Presto Barbaro & City Dreams (from On the Waterfront) / The Masque, Variation 14 Poco più vivace & The Epilogue (from Symphony No. 2: The Age of Anxiety)
All by Leonard Bernstein
96.903rd Place
Division I
Finalist
1998Copland, The Modernist
Grohg, Dance Panels, Down a Country Lane, Hear Ye! Hear Ye! & Grohg, Part II
All by Aaron Copland
97.902nd Place
Division I
Finalist
1999Inventions for a New Millennium
The Canyon by Philip Glass / Symphony No. 2 & Symphony No. 1 by Samuel Barber / Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli
98.401st Place
Division I
Champion
(tie) [lower-alpha 1]
2000Age of Reverence
Prayers of Kierkegaard (Prayer No. 4) by Samuel Barber / String Quartet No. 4, Mvt. 5 & Piano Concerto No. 1, Mvt. 3 by Béla Bartók / Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings) by Samuel Barber / Stained Glass, Mvt. 1 & 3 by David Gillingham
94.704th Place
Division I
Finalist
2001New Era Metropolis
The Alarm by Dean Westman & Jim Casella / Short Ride in a Fast Machine by John Adams / Jug Blues and Fat Pickin' by Don Freund / Variants on a Medieval Tune by Norman Dello Joio / New Era Dance by Aaron Jay Kernis
95.354th Place
Division I
Finalist
2002Sound, Shape, and Color
Trivandrum by Gordon Henderson / Symphony No. 2 by Howard Hanson / Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, Mvt. 2 & 3 by Aaron Copland
95.654th Place
Division I
Finalist
2003Pathways
Orawa (Part 1) by Wojciech Kilar / One Man Show by Jeff Beal / Anima Mundi by Richard Danielpour / Orawa (Part 2) by Wojciech Kilar
94.705th Place
Division I
Finalist
2004Attraction: The Music of Scheherazade
Selections from Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
96.8253rd Place
Division I
Finalist
2005Russia: Revolution - Evolution 1917 - 1991
Carol (from Russian Christmas Music) by Alfred Reed / Symphony No. 12 by Dmitri Shostakovich / Cathedral Chorus (from Russian Christmas Music) by Alfred Reed
88.658th Place
Division I
Finalist
2006Moto Perpetuo
Chains of Reaction, Newton's Cradle, Echoes of Time & Speed of Sight
All from Moto Perpetuo by Key Poulan
92.356th Place
Division I
Finalist
2007! (Eureka)
Introduction & War Dance (from Daphnis et Chloé) & String Quartet in F Major, Mvt. 2 by Maurice Ravel / Romanian Dance for Orchestra, Sz. 47a by Béla Bartók / St. Gregory the Great (from Church Windows) by Ottorino Respighi / Finale (from Daphnis et Chloé) by Maurice Ravel
94.1755th Place
Division I
Finalist
20083HREE Mind, Body and Soul
The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra) by John Adams / The Man in the Bath by Philip Glass / Eclipse by Talvin Singh / Cloudburst by Eric Whitacre
93.0257th Place
World Class
Finalist
2009Ballet For Martha
Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland
95.655th Place
World Class
Finalist
2010Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra & Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta by Béla Bartók
92.007th Place
World Class
Finalist
2011The Devil's Staircase
First Essay for Orchestra by Samuel Barber / Piano Sonata No. 2, Mvt. 2 by Avner Dorman / The Eternal Knot by Karl Jenkins / Etude 13: The Devil's Staircase by György Ligeti
92.206th Place
World Class
Finalist
2012Music of the Starry Night
Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine by Eric Whitacre / Hymn to a Blue Hour by John Mackey / Jupiter & Mars (from The Planets) by Gustav Holst / Music of The Night (from The Phantom of the Opera) by Andrew Lloyd Webber
94.455th Place
World Class
Finalist
2013Les Misérables
Look Down, At the End of the Day, On My Own, Castle on a Cloud, One Day More, I Dreamed a Dream, Attack on the Rue Plumet, Red and Black, Bring Him Home & Do You Hear the People Sing?
All from Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel & Herbert Kretzmer
96.854th Place
World Class
Finalist
2014Scheherazade: Words 2 Live By
Selections from Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
96.0754th Place
World Class
Finalist
2015The Spark of Invention
Invention in A Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach / Virus Attack by Amin Bhatia / Pure Imagination by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley / Piano Concerto by John Corigliano
93.8505th Place
World Class
Finalist
2016Force of Nature
Spring 1 (from Recomposed) by Max Richter / Without Warning by Stephen Melillo / Earth Song by Frank Ticheli / Winter 1 (from Recomposed) by Max Richter / After the Storm by Stephen Melillo
95.3004th Place
World Class
Finalist
2017Ouroboros
Interplay for Piano Four Hands and Orchestra by David Gillingham / The Triumph of Time by Peter Graham / Song of Eight Unruly Tipsy Poets by Zhou Long / Into a Virtual World by Amin Bhatia / Remembering the Future (from Wait of the World) by Stephen Melillo
97.6002nd Place
World Class
Finalist
2018Babylon
My Body Is a Cage by Arcade Fire, adapted by Peter Gabriel / Journey to the Center of the Earth & Metropolis 1927 by Peter Graham / Apology by Zacarías M. de la Riva / Club Sound by Billy Bennett & Long Phung (Gent and Jawns)
98.6251st Place
World Class
Champion
2019Vox Eversio
Fraternity by Thierry Deleruyelle / Audivi Media Nocte by Oliver Waespi / Nothing Else Matters by James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich (Metallica) / Rise Up by Paul & Sandi Rennick
96.6003rd Place
World Class
Finalist
2020Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021Wait For Me
Original music by Galen Hooks
(Santa Clara Vanguard did not perform live at DCI events in 2021)
No scored competitions
2022Finding Nirvana
String Quartet No. 1 (Metamorphoses Nocturnes) - Presto by György Ligeti / Breakfast in Baghdad by Ulf Wakenius / Mata Hari by Al Di Meola / Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana / Ambergris March by Björk / Territorial Pissings by Nirvana
95.0005th Place
World Class
Finalist
2023Corps inactive
2024Vagabond
United in Grief by Kendrick Lamar / The All-Seeing Sky by John Psathas / With Reckless Abandon by Mikael Karlsson / Mirrorball by Peter Gabriel
  1. In 1999, Santa Clara Vanguard and the Blue Devils tied for 1st place.

Caption awards

At the annual World Championship Finals, Drum Corps International (DCI) presents named awards to the corps with the high average scores from prelims, semifinals, and finals in five captions. Santa Clara Vanguard has won these caption awards. [6]

Don Angelica Best General Effect Award

John Brazale Best Visual Performance Award

George Zingali Best Color Guard Award

Jim Ott Best Brass Performance Award

Fred Sanford Best Percussion Performance Award

Prior to 2000 and the adoption of the current scoring format, Santa Clara Vanguard won these captions:

High General Effect Award

High Visual Award

High Color Guard Award

High Brass Award

High Percussion Award

Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps

Vanguard Cadets
Drum Corps
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Location Santa Clara, CA
DivisionOpen Class
Founded1971
DirectorRafael Bretado
Championship titles
  • DCI Open Class
  • 2000
  • 2008
  • 2013
  • 2015
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2022
Website scvanguard.org/vanguard_cadets/

The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets Drum Corps, also known as the Vanguard Cadets, is an Open Class competitive junior drum corps. Based in Santa Clara, California, the corps is a member of Drum Corps International (DCI) and is the feeder corps for the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps. [7]

The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets were formed in 1971 as a cadet feeder and training corps for the Santa Clara Vanguard. They began as a parade corps, but by the end of the 1970s, the Vanguard Cadets had become a truly competitive Class A corps. The corps did its first major touring in 1990, and in 1991, they attended their first DCI World Championships in Dallas. In 1993, the corps became the first cadet corps to achieve DCI membership. In 2000, the Vanguard Cadets became the first feeder corps to win a championship in Division II (now Open Class). The corps also qualified for the Division I (now World Class) Semifinals. Despite their cadet status, the Vanguard Cadets won their division in 2000, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2022. [8]

In September 2018, Vanguard Music & Performing Arts, BD Performing Arts, and Drum Corps International announced that the Vanguard Cadets would "be restructured as a California-based drum corps" and that both the Vanguard Cadets and the Blue Devils B Drum and Bugle Corps would not attend DCI Open Class Championships in 2019. [9] [10]

In September 2022, Vanguard Music & Performing Arts announced that the Vanguard Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps will be placed on hiatus for the 2023 season due to multiple unforeseen financial issues that faced both Vanguard corps during the previous season. [11] The Vanguard Cadets did not return to Drum Corps International for the 2024 season.

Show summary (1982–2024)

Source: [12]

Key
Light blue background indicates DCI Open Class Finalist [lower-alpha 1]
Goldenrod background indicates DCI Open Class Champion [lower-alpha 1]
Pale green background indicates DCI World Class Semifinalist
  1. 1 2 In 1991, the Vanguard Cadets competed as Class A, from 1992–2007 in Division II, and since 2008 in Open Class. These are the same tier, just renamed.
YearRepertoireWorld Championships
ScorePlacement
1982Main Theme & Can You Read My Mind (from Superman) by John Williams / The Eagle and the Hawk by John Denver & Mike Taylor Did not attend
World Championships
1983Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Main Theme (from Superman) by John Williams / Battle in the Mutara Nebula (from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) by James Horner / When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) by Ned Washington / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls
1984Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Superman Medley by John Williams / Last Chance to Dance by T-Bone Burnett / Black Saddle by Michael Hennagin / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls
1985Conquest (from Captain from Castile) by Alfred Newman / Forgotten Dreams by Leroy Anderson / Once in a Lifetime (from Stop The World - I Want to Get Off) by Anthony Newley / Hungarian Dance No. 2 by Johannes Brahms / You'll Never Walk Alone (from Carousel) by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
1986Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione / Baja by Ary Barroso / "You Can't Hurry Love" by Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland & Eddie Holland / Imagine by John Lennon / Black Saddle by Michael Hennagin / Tradition (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick
1987The Voyage Home (from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home) by Leonard Rosenman / Echano (from Children of Sanchez) by Chuck Mangione / Clock by John Holt / Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione
1988Scenes From the Louvre by Norman Dello Joio / Wild Life Market Street by Yellowjackets / In the Stone by Allee Willis, David Foster & Maurice White / Theme from Dirty Dancing by John Morris / Henry V by Sir William Walton
1989Mutiny on the Bounty by David Cooke / Children's Crusade by Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner / Hopak (Traditional) / On My Own (from Les Misérables) by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel & Herbert Kretzmer
1990Russian Sailor's Dance (from The Red Poppy) by Reinhold Gliere / Who Will Buy (from Oliver!) by Lionel Bart / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls
1991Theme from The Big Country by Jerome Moross / In Quiet Dignity & Echoes of Ancient Battles by Checkfield / This is One of Those Moments (from Yentl) by Michel Legrand / Anything but Lonely (from Aspects of Love) by Andrew Lloyd Webber 88.2004th Place
Class A & A60
Finalist
62.20027th Place
Open Class
1992Selections from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Overture, Maid Marion, Little John and the Band in the Forest & The Final Battle at the Gallows (all from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) by Michael Kamen / Danza Final (from Estancia) by Alberto Ginestera
Did not attend
World Championships
1993Selections from Far and Away
Land Race, Oklahoma Territory, Blowing Off Steam, The Big Match & Race to the River
All from Far and Away by John Williams
92.6002nd Place
Division II & III
Finalist
69.30025th Place
Division I
1994The Music of Michael Kamen
Courante, Concerto for Saxophone, Estampie, Shining Through & Galliard
All from The Three Musketeers by Michael Kamen
Did not attend
World Championships
1995The Red Pony by Aaron Copland / Fall River Legend by Morton Gould / Wyatt Earp by James Newton Howard
1996Piano Concerto No. 2, Mvt. 1 by Béla Bartók / Dance of the Comedians by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Ballet Suite No. 3 by Dmitri Shostakovich / Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev
1997Selections from Evita
Latin Chant, Buenos Aires, I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You, And The Money Kept Rolling In, Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Santa Evita & A New Argentina
All from Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber
1998Selections from the Broadway Musical Titanic
The Boarding: Godspeed Titanic, Barrett's Song, The Proposal & Ship of Dreams
All from Titanic by Maury Yeston
93.7005th Place
Division II
Finalist
1999Scenes From the Louvre by Ottorino Respighi / The Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron by David Holsinger / Merry Mount Suite by Howard Hanson Did not attend
World Championships
2000Journey From the Darkness
The Dream of Oenghus by Rolf Rudin / Song of Moses by David Holsinger / Message of the Man; The Cave, The Struggle and Man From The Light & Escape...Into The Light! (from Escape From Plato's Cave) by Stephen Melillo
94.3501st Place
Division II & III
Champion
74.70017th Place
Division I
Semifinalist
2001Tempered Steel by Charles Rochester Young / Partita by Philip Sparke / The Gift of Love & Time to Take Back the Knights by Stephen MelilloDid not attend
World Championships
2002Molto Ritmico & Lento (from Dance Movements) by Philip Sparke / Timestorm (from Stormworks) by Stephen Melillo / Easter Symphony by David Holsinger 94.3504th Place
Division II & III
Finalist
2003Overture to a New Era by Caesar Giovannini / Urban Dances by Richard Danielpour / American Beauty by Thomas Newman / Easter Symphony by David Holsinger Did not attend
World Championships
2004Engulfed Cathedral by Claude Debussy / The New Moon in the Old Man's Arms by Michael Kamen / New Beginnings & Celebration Overture by Peter Boyer 94.7253rd Place
Division II & III
Finalist
2005Through the Rainforest & The Anaconda (from Amazonian Rainforest) by Key Poulan / Message of The Man (from Escape From Plato's Cave) by Stephan Melillo / Sentenced to Death & The Descent into the Dark Unknown (from The Pit and the Pendulum) & Checkered Flag (from Need for Speed) by Key PoulanDid not attend
World Championships
2006Innovations
Mishima: Opening & Primacy of Number (from Naqoyqatsi) by Philip Glass / Water Dances: Gliding by Michael Nyman / The Grid (from Koyaanisqatsi) by Philip Glass
89.5255th Place
Division II & III
Finalist
2007Ascension: Music from The Divine Comedy
Purgatory, Inferno, Paradise & Ascension
All from The Divine Comedy by Robert W. Smith
90.4005th Place
Division II & III
Finalist
2008Perspectives
Perspectives by James Peterson & Robby Elfman
96.8251st Place
Open Class
Champion
2009Love
When I Fall in Love by Edward Heyman / Seasons of Love (from Rent) by Jonathon Larson & Freddie Mercury / Elephant Love Medley (from Moulin Rouge!) by Craig Armstrong & Baz Luhrmann / El Tango de Roxanne (from Moulin Rouge!) by Sting & Mariano Mores / Nessun Dorma (from Turandot) by Giacomo Puccini
94.7002nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
2010Chakra
Introduction, Root and Sacral Chakras, Solar and Heart Chakras, Throat Chakra & Head and Crown Chakras
All from Chakra by Key Poulan
Did not attend
World Championships
2011Balance
Symmetry, Equilibrium, Harmony & Equality
All by Key Poulan, Nate Bourg & Murray Gusseck
94.2003rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
72.85023rd Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2012Heroes and Legends
Main Title (from Rome) by Jeff Beal / Danse Bacchanale (from Samson & Delilah) by Camille Saint-Saëns / Viva La Vida by Guy Berryman, Jonathan Buckland, William Champion & Chri Martin / Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance (from Medea) by Samuel Barber / Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from The Phantom of the Opera) by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed / The Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky
93.8003rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
72.75022nd Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2013The Art of War
Unto the Breach by Key Poulan / Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky / Elegy for Dunkirk (from Atonement) by Dario Marianelli / Hut of Baba-Yaga (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky / Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber / The Promise of Living (from The Tender Land) by Aaron Copland
96.1501st Place
Open Class
Champion
77.70021st Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2014The Road Not Taken
Kaval Sviri (Bulgarian Traditional) / Meetings Along the Edge by Philip Glass & Ravi Shankar / Forbidden Friendship & Test Drive (from How to Train Your Dragon) by John Powell / Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven / Secrets by Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic)
81.6502nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
80.20018th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2015On Cloud Nine
Life (from Prometheus) by Harry Gregson-Williams / Awakening (from On Cloud Nine) by Key Poulan, Fred Emory Smith & Casey Brohard / Girl with the Plums (from Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil / Big Hero Six by Henry Jackman
81.2251st Place
Open Class
Champion
79.35016th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2016The One
Pines of the Appian Way by Ottorino Respighi / Due Tremonti by Ludovico Einaudi / Iza Ngosmo (Come Tomorrow) by Christopher Tin
78.8502nd Place
Open Class
Finalist
78.00020th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2017In Pieces
Feedback by Francisco Gabas, Francisco Lomeňa, Javier Martin, Marina Abad, Maxwell Wright, Nitin Sawhney, Ramón Giménez, Sergio Ramos & Xavier Turull (Ojos de Brujo) / Temen Oblak by Christopher Tin / Kaleidoscope by Fred Emory Smith / Harvest by John Mackey
80.7251st Place
Open Class
Champion
81.97516th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2018Off The Wall
Bicycle Race by Freddie Mercury / Sounding Board by Fred Emory Smith & Ryan Adamsons / Fly to Paradise by Eric Whitacre / Rebound by Fred Emory Smith & Ryan Adamsons
80.0751st Place
Open Class
Champion
81.02518th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2019What About Us
What About Us by Alecia Moore (Pink), Steve Mac & Johnny McDaid / Primacy of Number (from Naqoyqatsi) by Philip Glass / Downside Up by Peter Gabriel / Three Ring by Fred Emory Smith & Ryan Adamsons / Alone by Christopher Comstock (Marshmello)
Did not attend
World Championships
2020Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021Opted out of competition for the season
2022Somewhere New
Call to Adventure by Fred Smith & Ryan Adamsons / Overture from The Magic Flute by Mozart / Absurd Waltz from Le Petit Prince by Richard Harvey & Hans Zimmer / Johanna from Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim / The Escape from Le Petit Prince by Richard Harvey & Hans Zimmer
83.5501st Place
Open Class
Champion
81.05018th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2023-2024Corps inactive

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