Star of Indiana to Return
Star of Indiana to return for 2010 World Championship performance:
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 8:01 AM
The Star Alumni Association recently announced plans to assemble an alumni corps to perform as part of the 2010 Drum Corps International World Championships in Indianapolis, Ind.
Based out of Bloomington, Ind., Star of Indiana was a Drum Corps International member corps from 1985 to 1993. Winning the DCI World Championship title in 1991, the organization left the competitive drum corps circuit after the 1993 summer season, pursuing several additional performance ventures including the Emmy and Tony Award-winning stage production “Blast!”.
According to Star Alumni Association president Nancy Brown, the alumni corps will perform highlights from some of Star of Indiana’s well known programs during its Drum Corps International years. “We plan to not just relive memories, but show what an impact this corps still has upon the activity,” Brown said. “Every championship corps today has a Star alum on its staff and we want to perform what we preach.”
In addition to the corps’ Aug. 6, 2010 World Championships performance, it will appear that same year as part of the Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade on May 29 and in an Indianapolis-area exhibition on Aug. 4.
Rehearsals for the group will begin in Indianapolis in April of 2009. In the meantime, the alumni organization will be seeking members from all of the Star of Indiana performing groups to participate including those from the drum and bugle corps, Brass Theater, Blast!, Shockwave, Cyberjam, Mix, and Star United.
, the Purple Lancers started out as a senior corps in 1949 (as most corps of that era did), with the senior corps eventually folding in 1957. However, in 1960, the Purple Lancers were revived as a junior corps and became very prominent among the many, many New York State corps of the late 60s and early 70s, winning the state’s American Legion championship in 1974 (which was a very big deal in those days) and placing tenth in the DCI Open Class finals that year. The Purple Lancers were and still are the only New York State drum corps to have ever placed in the 35 years of DCI’s Open Class/Div. I finals. (Those were the days when making the DCI finals was truly an achievement, where you had 56 other corps to compete against in the 1974 prelims to make 12 spots, compared to the measly 22 corps competing in 2007 for the same 12 spots.) And then the corps collapsed that winter, and all of us in New York drum corps were stunned.
