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| State competition, the final performance. This is the last time for "Carmina Burana's" power to be felt. School records set, broken, and repeated. The emotions are intense to start the show. The world sucks from the view of the leading man on the field. He has been poor for months and now his girl has dumped him. You are pulled into turmoil by his emotions, the band's music, and the guards dance. It then leads into a springtime feeling. Everyone is dancing, drinking, talking, and most importantly; he meets another woman. They dance and then leave. Springtime joy is in the air, then they leave. |
| Afterwards, you are pulled into deep thoughts of "If the I ruled the world I would..." You see all the plans as the instruments are marching in their sections during the drum break. Then they are all back in one group as the mellophones, followed by trombones, then finally saxophones. The clarinets form an arc, then move into a partial box on one end. The flutes the form another on the other end. The trumpets form an arch in back with guard inside and outside the form making like a face. The trumpets begin their fanfare. As you think about that girl at the second movement. The world is great again. |
| The 4th movement starts with the lost love of the 1st movement with the leading male guard member dancing in back, while the left half of the arc go around the band. While the guard is moving the love of 2nd movement is dancing in a solo. He joins her as the rest of the guard sets up behind them. Everyone is dancing in love. Then, when she learns of his dancing in back, she pushes him away. He tries to go back to his first love, but she pushes him away. Everyone scatters, everyone, but the lost love of the 2nd movement. |
| He was torn between love and chastity. |
| The powerful 5th movement begins with him releasing his pain on his rifle and the crowd. He then realizes that true love was what he needed. He lets all hell break out. Then she dances, finally realizing she needed him. She forms into line with her love with two guard members in between. They perform awesome flag work to the music. The music is gaining strength. Another group of guard members performs. They all make a big group of flags bent on letting all the powers of hell loose. They release their fury as the band lets loose a triple forte blast. The guard scattering, launches their flags, and ends in a wild array of postures. In that scatter the two lovers, tentative as they be, run away then together. They then hit the love pose at the end. |
| Resume Move! Senior drum major, Mitch Skinner, gives the final command. He is done with High School Marching Band. Along with: Nate Amberg, Sara Arndt, Elizabeth Beilke, Micheal Bochmann, Nicole Diedrich, Ellen Hatfield, Jeffrey Holland, Nick Kozenka, Molly MacDougall, Shea Nelson, Cheryl Shepard, and Jared Zito. The show is now retired. No more 5th quarter/halftime shows of Carmina. We are done marching till August, (July for guard). We have 1 week to make up homework, quizzes, reports, projects, and tests. |
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| Carmina Burana: A Band Member's Interpetation of the 2000 Field Show |
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| Scores D.C. Everest: 73.3 Merril: 76.2 Chippewa Falls: 78.3 Menomonie: 81.7 Championships: 84.3 |
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