2010 Phantom Regiment (Mahler's 2nd Symphony)

Phantom Regiment warming up with Mahler's 2nd Symphony (History bit from the closer of their 2006 show, Faust) at the 2010 Pearl Master of Summer Music Games in Murfreesboro TN on 7/30/10.

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• Phantom Regiment
• Phantom
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• 2010
• Into The Light
• DCI
• Drum Corps
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• JD Shaw
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• Cavaliers
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• Carolina Crown
• Jeff Lawson
• Mahler's 2nd Symphony

[ptowndrummr]

weird ass trumpet attack

[brennakj]

Yep, Crown dropped the ball by not including this in their Mahler 2 show. That being said, Faust was my favorite Phantom show of the past decade. Nice.

[Wahl95]

@phantomtrumpet92 They only played the finale.

[samrshelley]

@phantomtrumpet92 Yea, absolutely. I wish Regiment would do that again, play an entire work. Like Tchaikovsky No. 4. I mean, Regiment got 2nd and 1st those years...

[phantomtrumpet92]

@samrshelley And their 1996 show, too. It was basically the entire Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich. I don't think they left out a single part

[1049berkeley]

I like alot of the corps......but no one does music the way Phantom does.

[jlevenhagen1]

@ptowndrummr lol a flam...

[samrshelley]

@Bobs482 Ummm, have you watched 2010 and 2011 Phantom Regiment?  Those shows are gorgeous with huge sections of the type of playing you describe. Especially 2010's Into the Light. And before you complain more about shows not playing full excerpts, go look at Phantom Regiment 1989. They only play the New World Symphony for the whole show.

[Bobs482]

@samrshelley I could care less how many times louder they are than an orchestra. Quality, not quantity. What I always am disappointed by is that drum corps arrangers always take only the loud excerpts from pieces and use them. I would love to hear an entire stadium go silent to hear the chorale at the beginning of the 4th movement of this same piece. The contrast is what makes it. I've heard the end of Mahler 2, yes; I've played it.

[samrshelley]

@samrshelley Don't hate just because 72 kids under the age of 23 are many times louder than a professional orchestra.

[samrshelley]

@Bobs482 Ok, let me educate you a bit. There are 4 instruments in a drum corps trumpet, mellophone (alto voice), euphonium, and tuba.  There are roughly 4 trumpet parts, 2 mellow, 4 ish euphs, and 3 tuba. Not nearly the flexibility of a full orchestra with full choir and organ where upwards of 24 parts exist. And this is a WARM-UP. We play this as a tune-up piece to the real show music. Finally, have you heard the end of Mahler 2? Its literally full volume from the whole orchestra.

[Bobs482]

@pinkelafant I have, and am, thank you. That being said, I do understand 'Marching Band style music'. I fully support original compositions for Marching bands as well as Drum Corps. Many times when they do arrangements of major classical works, so much gets left out. To me, that just feels like they are not doing the music justice.