The Process of Choosing Our Production

nDEFINE the mood and goal of our project and each movement.

nCHOOSE the color we feel best expresses the mood or movement.

nPLAY with the possibilities presented. Using various themes. Juxtaposition, color schemes, instrument groupings, meters, equipment or props, etc.

nREFINE these color options down to the best possible color scheme and ideas for that movement.

nINNOVATE create new ways of presenting a well coordinated an entertaining production that is both inspiring and thought provoking.

Movement 1: Introduction

nThe entire band begins behind WHITE  OBJECTS on the left side of the field.  Trombone solo will begin the show.  No one will be seen on the field.

nAs the music begins we will be introducing the performers from the props.  As each soloist is presented the following quote will be sequentially introduced:

“Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings, the artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”

–Wassily Kadinsky

nThe percussion are drawn out from the back perimeter of the field.

nThe color guard comes from each prop sequentially ranging in a “ACHROMATIC” color scheme. Graduating from white to dark gray as each group gets sequentially pulled out of the cube.

nColor Guard will begin a canon that takes them across the field.

nThis production leads to a huge ensemble climax.

Movement II: “Colored Rhythms”

This movement is based around featuring the three sections of  performers, three colors, and three rhythmic combinations. This movement is presented in the following form:

        A. Sequential - The Sequential section of this movement we will explore and introduce 3 colors. Drill and form will represent things done and grouped in threes. A different color will represent the three elements of the Hornline, Percussion, and Color guard. We have created a melody for each of these three elements.

      Brass/Bass Drums/Flags,  Midvoices/Tenors/Rifles, Upper WW/Snares/Flags

      B. Fugue – During the Fugue we will be breaking the performers out into

      various sections:

            Each grouping will highlight that percussion performer. Performers will be stepping off every six counts. Each instrument grouping will end with a combination feature of that percussion instrument.

      C. Recapitulation - We have “juxtaposed” these three melodies for the end final climax. Color Guard all ends on Flag.

Movement III: “Colored Harmonies”
“Of  all of God’s gifts to the sighted man,
COLOR is holiest,
the most divine, the most solemn.

nColors will be transparent/monochromatic.

nThis is the lyrical section of the show that is influenced by the piece “O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen.  The form of this piece Intro. Theme, Development, Climax, Transition.

This piece will represent beauty, peace, and tranquility.

Movement IV: “Colored Dynamics”
“COLORS answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.”     

–John Sterling

nWe introduce each color in a sequence. At the conclusion we will have constructed the entire color  wheel. The winds, percussion, and guard will all be introduced sequentially. As we add on to the color spectrum, the music, drill, and color schemes will continue to grow.

nThis is where we could use a narrator on a microphone. As the drill/music sequence begins, the narrator begins to describes the color and then on the hit, the color is presented.

nI symbolize the Beginning, Pure, Peaceful, Angelic, Heavenly – I AM WHITE

nI symbolize The Sun, Wealth, Curiosity, Comfort, Warmth – I AM YELLOW

nI symbolize Courage, Sacrifice, Blood, Hot – I AM RED

nI symbolize Emblematic, Rank, Authority – I AM PURPLE

nI symbolize Cool, Sky, Water – I AM BLUE

nI symbolize Envy, Jealousy, Fear – I AM GREEN

nAfter we introduce all the colors, we play a hit , heavy with percussion and brass.

nVery upbeat and driving to the end!  Lots of suspensions and hits.

Movement V: Closing

nWe sequentially transition back to the props where the band will disappear.

nThe last thing you will see will be the color spectrum fading away to darkness into the Black Objects sequentially.

nWill finish the show with a recap of the trombone solo.

nMusically this will be similar to the beginning.

nThe show ends the way we began just all black opposed to the beginning white and on the opposite side of the field.

“Our purpose is to make our audience see what we saw, hear what we heard, feel what we felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, COLORFUL images and sounds, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for our audience.”       -Dale Carnegie

“There are only 3 COLORS, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.” –Ruth Ross

Quotations on Color

n“Of all God’s gift’s to be sighted man, COLOR is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.” –John Ruskin

n“COLORS are the smiles of nature.” –Leigh Hunt

n“He who has never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of COLORS.” –Olympia Brown

n“The mind, like the dyer’s hand, is COLORED by what it holds.” – source unknown

n“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” –Vincent Van Gogh

n“Life without COLOR would lose much of it’s purpose.” –Andrew Loomis