“Since I’ve written for the corps… we’ve never used this many soloists or small ensembles in a show,” he said. George noted that Boston’s music design will take on a slightly new feel as well. “What does it look like? What does it feel like? What kind of human experience happens in a space that is the center of the story? (These questions) led us to ‘Paradise Lost.’” “We made a really conscious decision to try to shift the brand,” Potter said. – Changing CourseĪfter a string of productions in the late-2010s that artistic director Keith Potter described as carrying the same “epic” style, the corps made a conscious effort to take its program design in a new direction.Īccording to Potter, while discussing plans for the corps’ next show, the decision was made to approach design first from the perspective of “setting” and “landscape,” rather than characters and events. Maslanka's "A Children's Garden of Dreams," which will serve as Boston Crusaders' opening movement, was also featured in Phantom Regiment's 2018 production, "This New World." 4. “In my mind, he’s one of the top-five band composers of all time,” George said.
“Paradise Lost” will, once again, run the gamut of musical styles, featuring 20th-century work of David Maslanka, classical work of Mozart, modern American music like “What a Wonderful World” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” and Antonio Sanchez’s syncopated big band piece, “Bad Hombres (y mujeres).”īrass arranger Ryan George, now in his tenth year with Boston Crusaders, spoke highly about the corps’ list of 2022 selections, and particularly, Maslanka.
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See Boston Crusaders’ full list of 2022 music selections – All over the Mapīoston Crusaders’ recent setlists of music choices could quite easily be described as “eclectic.” The corps has, in the past few years, been able to pull from a very wide range of source music in creating its productions 2019’s “Goliath,” for example, featured the likes of “Hamilton,” the “Rocky” movies, and the music of Peter Graham and John Coltraine. None of the corps’ music selections for its 2022 production match those performed in 2009. That being said, it appears as though Boston’s 2022 take on the age-old story will take on a much different tone and approach, given its basis on the Milton poem. The Boston corps is 13 years removed from a show that centered around the story of Adam and Eve its 2009 production, “The Core of Temptation.”
The poem - and, presumably, the production - details the experiences of Adam and Eve story, as described in the Bible, their temptation by Satan into consuming forbidden fruit, and their resulting banishment from the paradise they’d inhabited.Ģ. – Into the Gardenīoston Crusaders’ 2022 production is titled, “Paradise Lost,” named after the epic poem of the same name written by John Milton in 1667. Here are five key takeaways from Boston Crusaders’ “Giving Day” celebration, during which the corps officially announced its production for 2022: 1.
Just recently moving into their spring training rehearsal site in Castleton, Massachusetts, the Boston corps enters 2022 on the heels of top-six finishes in each of the last three competitive drum corps seasons, as well as 2021’s innovative non-competitive production, “Zoom.”
As the 2022 DCI Summer Tour comes into focus, Boston Crusaders dropped exciting details about the corps’ on-field plans for the summer to come.
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