Sioux Falls LHS Marching Band 2000 - Belshazzar's Feast

[NintendoGuy99]

Cool, this year in the LBJ Band, we're playing both Belshazzar's Feast and Ave Maria.

[jErRyIII15]

Do you happen to know the name of their warm-up?

[sodakjoe]

@jErRyIII15 Ave Maria, by Franz Biebl

[roderickscarroll]

@RBVTBONE We did exactly that in 1997, the year we went to the Rose Parade (we went to Macy's in 2000). Freshman band did drills while the band proper practiced the field show (I was lucky enough to audition into the upper bands that year). During performance, the freshman lined the goal zones and joined for the finale. I'll try to upload it if i can find the VHS and get it digitized!

[CanyonBassCaptain]

People who don't think big bands can do anything need to watch this. WOW. :D

[RBVTBONE]

Dynamics in Ave Maria were... nonexistent. It seems too robotic phrasing-wise.

Tooo many people! Holy mackeral- reminds me of Arcadia. Split the band, man- make the music program two years where the first year is marching and playing and basics only and the second year is drill based so you would only have upper-more experienced clansmen in the band- would shrink the size, and increase competitiveness and ease the the drill-designers' brain.

[85mello07]

@RBVTBONE Note that this is 10 years old. The Band went to the Rose Parade that year, and the big trips always expand the size. I think 2000 was the grandest example of that.

[sodakjoe]

@cainanuk

I hope you at least enjoyed the vid. This was an exceptionally large group, about 365 students. You can check out a couple of the years after this one, the band has about 100 fewer people in it most years.

[cainanuk]

@sodakjoe I never said I didn't enjoy it. I appreciate what you guys (I am assuming that you are involved with LHS) did, I must admit however that I dont really like the visual aspect of the show as it is just too big. I appreciate that you are a (very) large ensemble, but there comes a point visually where there is just too much. Where you become limited in what you can feature due to the shear size of the band. Musically, however... excellent.

[sodakjoe]

@cainanuk

Believe me, I think our visual director's head exploded writing this drill. We all knew the band was a ridiculous size, too. It was a trip year (we went to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade) so we had more kids than usual. Our high school only had an enrollment of about 1850 that year, so it was a pretty large abnormality, even at LHS, where the band is typically bigger than pretty much everyone else in the area.