Seven professional drum corps will compete Friday at Ball State as the culmination of a week’s worth activities at Music For All’s Summer Symposium.
Drum Corps International has partnered with Music For All to bring its show, DCI Central Indiana, to campus for the last several years.
“We have had a partnership with them for a number of years,” said Chris Weber, senior manager of communications for DCI. “We held a show during the Summer Symposium when it was at Illinois State University, so we came with them when they came to Ball State.”
The show will take place at 7 p.m. at Scheumann Stadium. Tickets range from $25 to $30, but they will increase $5 for all pricing the day of the show. Tickets are available at dci.org and at the stadium.
Drum corps is a specialized version of marching band and is considered the top echelon of the marching arts, Weber said.
A drum corps is a 150-member group featuring brass, percussion and color guard sections that play a variety of musical selections that range from pop, rock, classical and modern. A corps is a nonprofit organization with no school affiliation.
Members are high school and college age students from around the nation and the world. International members come from 15 foreign countries, including Japan, Taiwan and the Netherlands, according to a DCI press release.
Weber, an alumnus of The Cavaliers, said people do it for different reasons. For him, it was an opportunity to meet people coming from all over the world to perform.
“I would have never been able to meet all these people, who were mostly like minded people,” he said. “Day in and day out, you are with these people traveling thousands of miles on tour buses and sleeping on gym floors while working toward a common goal.”
Friday evening’s event is part of DCI’s larger 42nd annual summer tour, which features 107 shows in more than 35 states with 47 World and Open Class Corps competing against one another.
The summer tour began June 18 at Ben Davis High School Stadium in Indianapolis and will culminate Aug. 7 until Aug. 9 in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for the championships.
The tour will go to the West Coast and up to the East Coast and reach go all the way down to the Gulf Coast.
Performing drum corps include Blue Stars, Carolina Crown, the Colts, Phantom Regiment, Pioneer, the Cavaliers and the Troopers.
Blue Stars from La Crosse, Wis.
Where the Heart Is
50th anniversary show
Musical selections include:
“The Chairman Dances” by John Adams
“Homeward Bound” by Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)
“Home” by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden (Phillip Phillips)
“To Build A Home” by Cinematic Orchestra
Original music by Richard Saucedo, Ian Grom and John Mapes
Carolina Crown from Ft. Mill, S.C.
2013 Champions and 25th anniversary
Musical selections include:
“Space Oddity” by David Bowie
“The Interstellar Suite” by Amin Bhatia
“Shadow Behind The Iron Sun” by Evelyn Glennie
“There’s No Place Like Home” by Michael Giacchino
“Perihelion: Closer To The Sun” by Philip Sparke
“Vitae Aeternum” by Paul Lovatt-Cooper
The Cavaliers from Rosemont, Ill.
Immortal
Musical selections include:
“Chamber Symphony Opus 110” by Dmitri Shostakovich
“La Danse Macabre” by Camille Saint-Saëns
“When I am Laid in Earth” by Henry Purcell
“A Walk on the Water” by Stephen Melillo
The Colts from Dubuque, Iowa
Dark Side of the Rainbow
Musical selections include:
“Dark Side of The Moon” by Pink Floyd
“Breath” by Pink Floyd
“On The Run” by Pink Floyd
“Time” by Pink Floyd
“Powerhouse” by Raymond Scott
“Great Gig in the Sky” by Pink Floyd
“Everything in Its Right Place” by Radiohead
“Brain Damage” by Pink Floyd
“Eclipse” by Pink Floyd
Phantom Regiment from Rockford, Ill.
Swan Lake
Musical selections include:
“Swan Lake” by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“La Péri” by Paul Dukas
“Dracula” by Philip Feeney
“King Kong” by James Newton Howard
“Flightplan” by James Horner
Pioneer from Milwaukee
Joy
Musical selections include:
“A Mighty Fortress” by GLAD
“We Gather Together” by GLAD
“Saints Hallelujah” by Canadian Brass
“Irish Tune From a County Derry” by Percy Grainger
“Garry Owen March”
The Troopers from Casper, Wyo.
A People’s House
“The Ramparts” by Clifton Williams
“Original music” by Robert Smith and Paul Rennick
“Oh Shenandoah”
“America The Beautiful” by Samuel A. Ward and Katharine Lee Bates
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