Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps
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| Location | Santa Clara, CA |
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| Division | Open Class |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Director | Rafael Bretado |
| Championship titles | DCI Division II' 2000 Open Class, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2017 & 2018 |
| Website | scvanguard |
The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets Drum Corps, known as SCVC or simply as the Vanguard Cadets, is an Open Class competitive junior drum corps. Based in Santa Clara, California, the corps is a member of Drum Corps International (DCI) and is the "B" corps of the World Class (formerly Division I) Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps.[1] On August 7, 2018, the Vanguard Cadets won their sixth DCI Open Class Championship title.[2]
Show summary (1982–2021)[]
Source:[3]
Gold background indicates DCI Championship; pale blue background indicates DCI Finalist; pale purple background indicates Open Class finalist (but not champion) and World Class semifinalist.
| Year | Theme | Repertoire | Score | DCI Placement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Main Theme & Can You Read My Mind (from Superman) by John Williams / The Eagle and the Hawk by John Denver and Mike Taylor | Did not attend | ||
| 1983 | Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Main Theme (from Superman) by John Williams / Battle in the Mutara Nebula (from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) by James Horner / When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) by Ned Washington / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls | Did not attend | ||
| 1984 | Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Superman Medley by John Williams / Last Chance to Dance by T-Bone Burnett / Black Saddle by Michael Hennagin / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls | Did not attend | ||
| 1985 | Conquest (from Captain From Castile) by Alfred Newman / Forgotten Dreams by Leroy Anderson / Hungarian Dance No. 2 by Johannes Brahms / You'll Never Walk Alone (from Carousel) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II | Did not attend | ||
| 1986 | Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione / Baja by Ary Barroso / You Can't Hurry Love by Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland / Imagine by John Lennon / Black Saddle by Michael Hennagin / Tradition (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock | Did not attend | ||
| 1987 | The Voyage Home (From Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home) by Leonard Rosenman / Echano (from Children of Sanchez) by Chuck Mangione / Clock by John Holt / Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione | Did not attend | ||
| 1988 | Scenes From the Louvre by / Market Street (The Yellowjackets) / African Suite by Neil Diamond, David Foster, and Maurice White / Theme from Dirty Dancing by John Morris / Henry V by Sir William Walton | Did not attend | ||
| 1989 | Mutiny on the Bounty by David Cooke / Children's Crusade by Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner / Hopak (Traditional) / Waterskiing (Unknown) / On My Own (from Les Misérables) by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Jean-Marc Natel | Did not attend | ||
| 1990 | Russian Sailor's Dance (from The Red Poppy) by Reinhold Gliere / Who Will Buy (from Oliver) by Lionel Bart / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls | Did not attend | ||
| 1991 | Theme from The Big Country by Jerome Moross / In Quiet Dignity & Echoes of Ancient Battles by Checkfield / This is One of Those Moments (from Yentl) by Michel Legrand / Anything but Lonely (from Aspects of Love) by Andrew Lloyd Webber | 88.200 62.200 |
4th Div.II 27th Div.I | |
| 1992 | Selections from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves |
Overture, Maid Marion, Little John and the Band in the Forest & The Final Battle at the Gallows (all from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) by Michael Kamen / Danza Final (from Estancia Ballet) by Alberto Ginestera | Did not attend | |
| 1993 | Selections from Far and Away |
Land Race, Oklahoma Territory, Blowing Off Steam, The Big Match & Race to the River All from Far and Away by John Williams |
92.600 69.300 |
2nd Div.II 25th Div.I |
| 1994 | The Music of Michael Kamen |
Courante, Concerto for Saxophone, Estampie, Shining Through, Galliard All from The Three Musketeers by Michael Kamen |
Did not attend | |
| 1995 | The Red Pony by Aaron Copland / Fall River Legend by Morton Gould / Wyatt Earp by James Newton Howard | Did not attend | ||
| 1996 | Piano Concerto No. 2, First Movement by Béla Bartók / Dance of the Comedians by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Ballet Suite No. 3 by Dmitri Shostakovich / Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev | Did not attend | ||
| 1997 | Selections from Evita |
Latin Chant; Buenos Aires; I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You; And The Money Kept Rolling In; Don't Cry For Me, Argentina; Santa Evita; A New Argentina All from Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Did not attend | |
| 1998 | Selections from the Broadway Musical Titanic |
The Boarding-Godspeed Titanic, Barrett's Song, The Proposal & Ship of Dreams All by Maury Yetson |
93.700 | 5th Div.II |
| 1999 | Scenes From the Louvre by Ottorino Respighi / The Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron by David Holsinger / Merry Mount Suite by Howard Hanson | Did not attend | ||
| 2000 | Journey From The Darkness |
The Dream of Oenghus by Rolf Rudin / Song of Moses by David Holsinger / Message of the Man; The Cave, The Struggle and Man From The Light!; Main From Light! & Escape...Into The Light! (from Escape From Plato's Cave) by Stephen Melillo | 94.350 74.700 |
1st Div.II 17th Div.I |
| 2001 | Tempered Steel by Charles Rochester Young / Partita by Philip Sparke / The Gift of Love & Time to Take Back the Knights by Stephen Melillo | Did not attend | ||
| 2002 | Molto Ritmico & Lento (from Dance Movements) by Philip Sparke / Timestorm (from Stormworks) by Stephen Melillo / Easter Symphony by David Holsinger | 94.350 | 4th Div.II | |
| 2003 | Overture to a New Era by Caesar Giovannini / Urban Dances by Richard Danielpour / American Beauty by Thomas Newman / Easter Symphony by David Holsinger | Did not attend | ||
| 2004 | Engulfed Cathedral by Claude Debussy / The New Moon in the Old Man's Arms by Michael Kamen / New Beginnings & Celebration Overture by Peter Boyer | 92.475 94.725 |
4th Div.II 3rd Div. II/III | |
| 2005 | Through the Rainforest & The Anaconda (from Amazonian Rainforest) by Key Poulan / Message of The Man (from Escape From Plato's Cave) by Stephan Melillo / Sentenced to Death & The Descent into the Dark Unknown (from The Pit and the Pendulum) & Checkered Flag (from Need for Speed) by Key Poulan | Did not attend | ||
| 2006 | Innovations | Mishima: Opening, Primacy of Number (from Naqoyqatsi) by Philip Glass / Water Dances: Gliding by Michael Nyman / The Grid (from Koyaanisqatsi) by Philip Glass | 89.925 | 5th Div.II |
| 2007 | Ascension: Music from The Divine Comedy |
Purgatory, Inferno, Paradise & Ascension
All by Robert W. Smith |
90.400 | 5th Div.II |
| 2008 | Perspectives | Perspectives by James Peterson and Robby Elfman | 96.825 | 1st Open Class |
| 2009 | Love | When I Fall in Love by Edward Heyman / Seasons of Love (from Rent) by Jonathon Larson and Freddie Mercury / Elephant Love Medley (from Moulin Rouge!) by Craig Armstrong, Baz Luhrmann, and Others / El Tango de Roxanne (from Moulin Rouge!) by Sting and Mariano Mores / Nessun Dorma (from Turandot) by Giacomo Puccini | 94.700 | 2nd Open Class |
| 2010 | Chakra | Introduction, Root and Sacral Chakras / Solar and Heart Chakras / Throat Chakra / Head and Crown Chakras All by Key Poulan |
Did not attend | |
| 2011 | Balance | Symmetry / Equilibrium / Harmony / Equality
All by Key Poulan, Nate Bourg and Murray Gusseck |
94.200 72.850 |
3rd Open Class 23rd World Class |
| 2012 | Heroes and Legends | Main Title (from Rome) by Jeff Beal / Viva La Vida by Guy Berryman, Jonathan Buckland, William Champion, & Chri Martin / Danse Bacchanale (from Samson & Delilah) by Camille Saint-Saëns / Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from Phantom of the Opera) by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe, & Charles Hart / Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed / Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky | 93.800 72.750 |
3rd Open Class 22nd World Class |
| 2013 | The Art of War | Unto the Breach by Key Poulan / Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky / Elegy for Dunkirk (from Atonement) by Dario Marianelli / Hut of Baba Yaga (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky / Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber / The Promise of Living (from Tender Land) by Aaron Copland | 96.150 77.700 |
1st Open Class 21st World Class |
| 2014 | The Road Not Taken | Kaval Sviri (Bulgarian Traditional) / Meetings Along the Edge by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar / Forbidden Friendship & Test Drive (from How to Train Your Dragon) by John Powell / Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven / I'll Stand by You by Chrissie Hynde, Tom Kelly, and Billy Steinberg | 81.650 80.000 |
2nd Open Class 18th World Class |
| 2015 | On Cloud Nine | Life (from Prometheus) by Harry Gregson-Williams / The Girl with the Plums (from Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, and Reinhold Heil / Title Track (from Big Hero Six) by Henry Jackman | 81.225 79.350 |
1st Open Class 16th World Class |
| 2016 | The One | Pines of the Appian Way by Ottorino Respighi / Due Tremonti by Ludovico Einaudi / Iza Ngosmo (Come Tomorrow) by Christopher Tin | 78.850 78.000 |
2nd Open Class 20th World Class |
| 2017 | In Pieces | Feedback by Francisco Gabas, Francisco Lomeňa, Javier Martin, Marina Abad, Maxwell Wright, Nitin Sawhney, Ramón Giménez, Sergio Ramos, and Xavier Turull (Ojos de Brujo) / Temen Oblak by Christopher Tin / Kaleidoscope by Fred Emory Smith / Harvest by John Mackey | 80.725 81.975 |
1st Open Class 16th World Class |
| 2018 | Off The Wall | Bicycle Race by Freddie Mercury / Sounding Board by Fred Emory Smith & Ryan Adamsons / Fly to Paradise by Eric Whitacre / Rebound by Fred Emory Smith & Ryan Adamsons | 80.075 81.025 |
1st Open Class 18th World Class |
| 2019 | What About Us | What About Us by Alecia Moore (Pink), Steve Mac, Johnny McDaid / Primacy of Number (from Naqoyqatsi) by Philip Glass / Downside Up by Peter Gabriel / Three Ring by Fred Emory Smith & Ryan Adamsons / Alone by Christopher Comstock (Marshmello) | Did not attend | |
| 2020 | Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 2021 | Opted out of competition for the season |
History[]
The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets were formed in 1971 as a cadet feeder and training corps for the rapidly developing Santa Clara Vanguard. Starting out as a parade corps, by the middle of the Seventies, the corps had become a field corps that was more cute than competitive, but by the end of that decade, the Vanguard Cadets had become a truly competitive Class A corps within the West Coast region. The corps did its first major touring in 1990, going as far east as Dallas and Tulsa. In 1991, the corps traveled all the way to Marion, Ohio for the U.S. Open before attending its first DCI World Championships in Dallas, where it placed fourth of nineteen Class A corps, and advanced to Open Class prelims, finishing twenty-seventh of twenty-nine corps. In 1993, the corps became the first cadet corps to achieve DCI membership. In 2000, the Vanguard Cadets would again travel to the Drum Corps International World Championships. They would become the first feeder corps to win a championship in their division (then Division II, now Open Class). This corps would also qualify for the Division I (now World Class) Semi-Finals. This would also be the first time an organization would have a corps and their feeder corps in the Semi-Finals together. The corps has traveled to both Open Class and World Class championships every year since 2011. Despite their cadet corps status, the Vanguard Cadets won their division in 2000, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2017 & 2018.[4]
On September 5, 2018, Vanguard Music & Performing Arts, BD Performing Arts, and Drum Corps International announced that Vanguard Cadets "will be restructured as a California-based drum corps” and that both SCVC and the Blue Devils B Drum and Bugle Corps would not be attending DCI Open Class Championships in 2019.[5][6]
Sponsorship[]
The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by the Vanguard Music and Performing Arts (VMAPA),[7] a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Charles Frost was named the Executive Director on August 23, 2016. The parent organization also sponsors the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps.[8]
References[]
- ^ "Corps". Drum Corps International. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- ^ "Vanguard Cadets piece together gold medal-winning comeback". Drum Corps International. August 8, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
- ^ "Vanguard Cadets". DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ "History for Vanguard Cadets". Maher & Associates, Inc./corpsreps.com. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
- ^ "VANGUARD CADETS LAUNCH CALIFORNIA INITIATIVE". Vanguard Music & Performing Arts. September 5, 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
- ^ "Blue Devils B, Vanguard Cadets plan regional tours for 2019".
- ^ "Santa Clara Vanguard Changes Name, Launches Capital Giving Campaign". The Santa Clara Weekly. March 31, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
- ^ "Santa Clara Vanguard Programs". Vanguard Music and Performing Arts. Retrieved August 9, 2017.
External links[]
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- Santa Clara, California
- DCI Open Class corps
- Musical groups established in 1971
- 1971 establishments in California