(mywebpal.com) 1946: The Hamilton American Legion Post No. 20 Senior Drum and Bugle Corps is formed and begins competing with other drum and bugle corps from up and down the East Coast on the Interstate Circuit of the American Legion. Many of the Hamilton Post No. 20 Senior Drum and Bugle Corps’ members are former [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2006
No drum corps show in DeKalb this year
(daily-chronicle.com) DeKALB – The martial sounds of drum and brass that for nearly all of the last 27 summers could be heard wafting across DeKalb will be a lot rarer this year. Milwaukee-based Drum Corps Midwest, which has been holding drum corps competitions in DeKalb since the late 1970s, suspended its operations in November. Other [...]
Glassmen to perform with symphony
(toledoblade.com) The Toledo Symphony Orchestra, directed by Chelsea Tipton II, will present “1812 Overture -The Glassmen Return!” featuring the Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps in Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, at 8 p.m. March 24 and 25 in the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle, 2445 Monroe St. Works by Strauss and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring [...]
Old Scouts have a new show
(www.madison.com) More than 200 alumni of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, ranging in age from 23 to 80, will return to Madison in August to put on a special show at Camp Randall Stadium during the Drum Corps International semifinals. Dubbed the Madison Scouts Alumni Reunion Project, the program will be performed the [...]
Making music
(pittsburghlive.com) They once set the standard for competitive drum and bugle corps, performing songs that ranged from Harold Arlen’s “Stormy Weather” to the Frank Zappa piece “Peaches En Regalia.” The complicated rhythms of Zappa’s lead into his 1969 solo album, “Hot Rats,” were a hit for the Pittsburgh-based Steel City Ambassadors at drum and bugle [...]
