The music score to what?
Posted on 09/24/2012 1:56:09 PM PDT by Red Badger
A Pennsylvania high school marching band is raising eyebrows with a halftime performance that commemorates the Russian revolution, complete with red flags, olive military-style uniforms, and giant hammers and sickles.
“St. Petersburg: 1917” is the theme for the New Oxford High School Marching Band. Ironically, the school’s athletic teams are called the Colonials and their colors are red, white and blue. The band’s website features a picture of the group with students holding a hammer and sickle.
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Just part of Obama’s Russian “Reset” policy I’m sure...
I wonder if they played “Back in the USSR”?
True story: in high school I was in Model UN with a couple of other pranksters and we were assigned the Soviet Union in the Security Council. Our first day we walked in 10 minutes late playing “Back in the USSR” on a boom box. We had a blast playing the Ruskies.
Whats next; a Kristallnacht anniversery celebration?
They have already honored the #1 mass murderers on the planet; they may as well go for #2.
This shows with 100% certainty these kids have no history teaching at all.
They wouldn’t need a practice gymnasium if everyone was in the marching band. They had to pass a ruling here to limit outside of class time hours they could practice because they were putting in so much time.
If anyone had bothered to look on the school site, they would have had their questions answered. The band parents man the concession stand, sell chicken dinners, subs, etc. so that’s where the money they get for all this comes from. http://www.newoxfordbands.com/uploads/6/1/6/3/6163272/9-12_band_booster_newsletter.pdf
Yes, I was right that this was their competition show. It’s for the Calvacade of Bands. Here’s a link to the routine for “The Music Of Shostakovich” which has been used by bands since 2008. No one got their panties in a wad over past bands using this routine.
http://jksmusic.com/music/mb-arr/index.php?musicID=147
As a former marching band parent, I know that directors try to find unusual themes to get noticed in the marching competitions especially themes with good music ...the movie Gladiator was a favorite theme when my daughter was in competition. However, the Russian Revolution is NOT a good theme and the band director is obviously ignorant about what went on in 1917.
“Springtime....for Stalin....in Leningrad....”
Heck when I was in the fourth grade (1957) we Army brats were comparing our dads’ Nazi war souvenirs. I thought the swastika was a kind of cool emblem & that the Wehrmacht had the snazziest uniforms in the whole war. One kid brought a German helmet to class, another a Luftwaffe dagger (!), all kinds of neat stuff. Go to someone’s house & handle Lugers and P-38 pistols.
Then one day Dad took me aside & explained just what the Nazis did to people who happened to be Jewish. Told me about a place he helped liberate called Dachau.
That was the first time I experienced pure horror. These kids need to be made to read Solzhenitsyn. They haven’t a clue about communism which lasted much much longer than the Nazi era.
It's a guess, but a good bet.
It’s the communists in the faculty and staff who should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.
Every year we got on buses and went a few miles east to Andersonville to get our yearbook pictures taken. Bet they don't do that anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a03lFOn7R7I
Cleburne Texas high school band. Jesus Christ Superstar. watch till the end when the flag corps turns into angels. Theres a longer 9 minute version right beside it if you like it. The Marching band forms a cross, and a christian fish symbol as they march up and down the field.
They won state that year.
(obscure Firesign Theater reference for those old enough to remember)
The music score to what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcrLQJ0-e78&feature=relmfu
The Full version. Watch this and consider how much freedom we have lost since just the late 80s. This act would be stopped by out new security state totalitarian government today.
A high school, unfurling banners that said “in remembrance” and a giant cross. In a littl eover 2 decades, this has gone from a state winning act, to a crime.
Their big rival is doing A SALUTE TO THE KHMER ROUGE where several freshman have plastic bags put over their heads. Good old high school fun!
So they're saying that a good time was had by all except for the Romanovs and the other millions who died.
the teachers union and their tax dollars at work...
St Petersburg 1917. Good times.
There's still little cause to celebrate the Russian Revolution -- no matter how wonderful the score was. Just reflects the general lack of knowledge of history.
Did you take off your shoe (with a hole in the sole) and pound on the table with it?
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