This should make some posters happy!
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NUTS- while we rarely agreed on a lot of stuff, I saw some of your posts, and hope you are OK. You may remember I had a pretty dismal 2014 with a major health scare and other issues, and 2015 was no picnic, which put other items like my sports fandom in perspective. Hope whatever you are going through gets better. 2014 seems like such a long time ago to me, and I look back and I am able to laugh at what happened and realized how it made me stronger.
There is NOTHING like Brass and Drums to stir the Blood and Fire up the Soul.
Tim Smith is a good guy who cares about the band kids. The band has been steadily growing over the past two years, and it has represented Rutgers at a number of high profile TV events.
I prefer more band music instead of piped in hip hop club mix crap. Leave that stuff for the warm up routine, the after parties and NFL games. I would cut DJ Yoshi's cord right before the pregame show. The musical focus during a college football game should be the band, and the Big 10 is the premiere marching band conference in the country. Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Purdue and even Indiana have amazing bands, but they built those traditions over the course of many years.
-Scarlet Jerry
I prefer more band music instead of piped in hip hop club mix crap. Leave that stuff for the warm up routine, the after parties and NFL games. I would cut DJ Yoshi's cord right before the pregame show. The musical focus during a college football game should be the band, and the Big 10 is the premiere marching band conference in the country. Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Purdue and even Indiana have amazing bands, but they built those traditions over the course of many years.
-Scarlet Jerry
I'll let that first paragraph be.
DJ Yoshi only does pregame, and is not responsible for the piped in music during the game.
The band needs to be much bigger, especially in the brass sections. We really need to have a band that doesn't need microphones and the speaker system - which is a crutch we've been using because we can't seem to keep kids in the band more than 1-2 years.
This is a great thing for the kids in the band.mi have no doubt that they will have a better experience moving forward. I don't wish I'll will to Tim Smith and perhaps the year will give him a chance to find something he's better suited to.....but it sure wasn't building a marching band and creating an organization that kids wanted to be a part of. Having moved to the Seattle area we went to a women's softball game at UW as part of my daughters little league team outing. They had a pep band there and they were really good. And they don't need to recruit community college kids. I was so impressed that they were able to field a band like that for Olympic sports. I hope moving forward that Rutgers can find a good director that will also be respected by the music department.....if they do the sky is the limit at Rutgers.
In many schools, and certainly in the Big Ten, the marching band is a huge part of the game day experience. Has been for decades.
Wow. I grew up in drum corps, the Cavaliers. Who did you march with? Would love to see the Knights put on a show. After reading some of the comments on this thread, it would be great if people could see the difference with a top notch field presentation like you see with the best drum corps.
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When Stauffer came in as the new Dean for Mason Gross he was invited to a end of season banquet and given an opportunity to speak. He seemed enthusiastic basically said we (Music Department) have to work on better supporting the marching band. I don't know if anything has changed materially since. And lord knows changing faculty attitudes doesn't happen quickly even if a dean wants to move in that direction.
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