Buchanan Marching Band 2001 - Medusa

Buchanan Marching Band
Medusa
Composer: Key Poulan
Drumline arrangement: Sean Glyde
Front Percussion arrangement: Leonard Bedoian
Colorguard Instructor: Tony Crapo
Drum Majors: Johnathan Holmes, Adrianna Maldonado, and Brian Elison
Drill Design: Jay Murphy
Flute soloist: Vannessa Morales
Tympani soloist: Jared Cornelison

November 17, 2001
California State University, Fresno
Fresno, Ca

WBA 'AAA' Champions 2001
Caption Awards:
Sweepstakes
(Golden State Tournament of Bands Buchanan High School Staduim, Buchanan High School
Clovis, Ca
Novemeber 3rd, 2001
&
Riverside Band Review
Tiger Staduim, Riverside Community College
Riverside, Ca
November 10th, 2001)
Music
General Effect
Visual Effect
Marching
Brass
Percussion


Another Key Poulan original composition brought to life from the ORIGINAL group. :-D.

Musically, this show was the best. The raw power, the intensity, the drum roll in the 4th movement... ... CLEAN!!! (be sure to listen around 6:15 or so)

Also... the last 45 seconds there are NO woodwinds. At that point, they dropped their instruments on the sideline and joined the colorguard so all you hear is Brass and Percussion. As small as it was, it's SO POWERFUL!

Enjoy! :-D

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• Key
• Poulan
• Medusa
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[Cirno0009]

freshman here. i play the vibes for this incredibly fast field show... >.<

[dlrico]

@Cirno0009

Awesome!! Good luck with those mallet runs in the 4th movement. I remember it took our pit quite a while to get them clean and up to tempo.  lol

Hope the show is as successful for your group as it was for ours! :-D

[Onmytoes457]

I am in the Naperville North Marching Band, and I can honestly say this is some serious marching. The difficult drill and music looks effortless. Its clear the Buchanan Marching Band worked hard to clean this show, with an outstanding outcome. I am stunned. This is so cool, keep up the good work!

[dlrico]

@Onmytoes457

Wasn't sure if you noticed... but the band dropped their numbers by OVER HALF because the woodwinds (all flutes, clarinets, and saxophones) grabbed flags and joined the colorguard for the last sets; so all you hear is brass and percussion. ;-)

[lizzyliz44]

We are doing this show at OBHS and im a freshman and i think i am going to suck but it looks awesomee :D and i play the baritone.

[dlrico]

@lizzyliz44

Do you know how people try to persuad themselves "not to fall" or something, and they concentrate so much on it that it hurts their concentration and they end up falling??

A show... a performance is the same thing. Morale of the group needs to be high in order for the audience or judges to feel what you're trying to bring to life. If you all think it sucks, then everybody will see it. It's a great show... just have fun with it and do all you can to bring it a trophy. ;-)

[theHighlyClassified]

Man, when we played Medusa, we were in our glory days as a marching band. (: I played everything in the pit -- those mallet runs were so much fun! But I gotta give props to the quints players, that music was hard as hell

[Noodleboy111]

@dlrico It sure did... We got 1st place for our class in two competitions, 2nd place in two others, and Grand Champion in one (on a slight technicality though) and 9 caption awards. This was pretty much the first time our band ever won anything. It was a great show indeed. watch?v=aYqDnYRHGJI

[mammer1995]

@dlrico thanks :D

[dlrico]

@mammer1995

Awesome... good luck and have fun wit it. Hopefully it brings your band as much success as it did ours.