The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps explained

The Academy
Location:Tempe, Arizona
Division:World Class
Founded:2001
Director:Mark Richardson
Titles:
  • DCI Open Class:

The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps is a World Class junior competitive drum and bugle corps based in Tempe, Arizona. The corps is a member of Drum Corps International (DCI).[1]

History

In 2001, a group gathered in the Phoenix, Arizona, area with the intent of starting a drum and bugle corps. They formed the Board of Directors of the Arizona Academy of the Performing Arts, a non-profit organization with the goal of "enhancing the culture of music, dance, and the performing arts in Arizona."[2] They then formed The Academy Brass & Percussion Ensemble, which made numerous local appearances from 2001 to 2003, including at the Southwest Corps Connection.

In the summer of 2004, the corps added a color guard, changed the name to The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, and entered the field of competition. They marched a short season of only four weeks and six shows in Arizona and California.[3] The next year, the corps expanded its boundaries, performing in ten shows. In 2006, The Academy appeared in seven states, including the DCI Division II & III World Championships in Madison, Wisconsin, where the corps capped their season with the Division II title.[4]

In 2007, The Academy moved into Division I (World Class) competition. In 2016, The Academy had their most successful season since moving to World Class. At the DCI World Championships in Indianapolis, The Academy placed 11th, becoming the first corps to make its Finals debut since the Seattle Cascades in 2002.

Show summary (2001–24)

Source:[5]

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Goldenrod background indicates DCI Open Class Champion
Pale green background indicates DCI World Class Semifinalist
Pale blue background indicates DCI World Class Finalist
YearRepertoire
Score Placement
2001 Excerpts from Drum Corps Past
Malambo (from Estancia) by Alberto Ginastera / Amber Waves by Morton Gould / "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Calvin Lewis & Andrew Wright
Did not attend
World Championships
2002
2003
2004 Debut
Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Mvt. 3 by Alfred Reed / Chanson Mélancolique by Morley Calvert / Jubilation (from Symphony for Brass and Timpani) by Herbert Haufrecht
2005
2006 95.625 1st Place

Champion
2007 The Chase
The Chase, The Villain, The Hero, The Woman, At the Jitterbug Club, The Love Theme, The Chase & Conclusion
Original Music by the Staff of The Academy
84.500 13th Place
Division I
Semifinalist
2008 Vienna Nights
Freud’s Dream, Mozart’s Theme, Café Life, Gallop, Notturno & Finale - Alla Turka
All from Vienna Nights by Philip Wilby
78.850 18th Place
World Class
2009 The Ascent
Call of the Mountain (from Gates of Gold) by Joseph Curiale / An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64 by Richard Strauss / Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey
83.750 14th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2010 Strangers In Paradise
Overture (from Prince Igor) by Alexander Borodin / Aquarium (from The Carnival of the Animals) by Camille Saint-Saëns / Selections from Prince Igor & Polovstian Dances and Chorus (from Prince Igor) by Alexander Borodin
84.050 14th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2011 (RE)
Little Fugue in G Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach / Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre / Fly by Ludovico Einaudi / Lollapalooza by John Adams
82.650 15th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2012 Left of Spring: Stravinsky Revisited
Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky / The Song of Purple Summer (from Spring Awakening) by Duncan Sheik & Steven Sater
81.900 15th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2013 Piano Man
Wilkommen (from Cabaret) by John Kander & Fred Ebb / Alabama Song by Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht / Falling In Love Again by Fredrick Hollander & Sammy Lerner / Piano Concerto No. 2, Mvt. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich / Piano Man by Billy Joel
78.200 19th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2014 Vanity Fair
Rondeau by Jean-Joseph Mouret / Crown Imperial by William Walton / What a Wonderful World by Bob Thiele & George David Weiss / Dance of the Hours by Amilcare Ponchielli / Jazz Suite No. 2, Waltz No. 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich / Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt / Symphony No. 7, Mvt. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven / Paris Sketches by Martin Ellerby
81.875 16th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2015 A Step in Time
Overture & Chim Chim Cher-ee (both from Mary Poppins) by The Sherman Brothers / A Shooting Star (from Mary Poppins) by George Stiles, Anthony Drewe & The Sherman Brothers / A Spoonful of Sugar (from Mary Poppins) by The Sherman Brothers / Practically Perfect (from Mary Poppins) by George Stiles, Anthony Drewe & The Sherman Brothers / Galop (from Masquerade Suite) by Aram Khachaturian / Step in Time, Feed the Birds & Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (all from Mary Poppins) by The Sherman Brothers
81.825 15th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2016 86.100 11th Place
World Class
Finalist
2017 84.188 14th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2018 84.563 15th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2019 The Bridge Between
Dance 1, Mvt. 1 by Oliver Davis / Equilibrium by Paul Lovatt-Cooper / London Bridge Is Falling Down (Traditional) / Bridge Over Troubled Water by Paul Simon / Horizons by Paul Lovatt-Cooper / Original Music by Steven Vento
84.300 15th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2020 Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021No scored competitions
2022A World of My Creation
Prelude by Steve Vento / Alice's Theme by Danny Elfman / The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini / Oompa Loompa (from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) by Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse / Anthem by Bjoern Ulvaeus & Benny Goran / Metropolitan Theme by Laurence Roger Fast / Pure Imagination (from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) by Anthony Newley & Leslie Bricusse
82.20016th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2023Sol Et Luna
Sun & Moon and Fate Written in The Stars by Ryan Erick Adamsons & Fred Emory Smith / And So It Goes by Billy Joel / Rocket to The Moon by Thomas Bergersen
82.50018th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2024When Opportunity Knocks
Can You Hear the Music? (from Oppenheimer) by Ludwig Goransson / Golden Hour by Jacob Lawson / Predator by John Psathas / Can You See Me? by Fred Emory Smith / Someone Like You (from Jekyll & Hyde) by Frank Wildhorn, Leslie Bricusse & Steve Cuden / You Can't Stop Me by Fred Emory Smith / Sailing Into Dawn (from) by Bear McCreary
82.17518th Place
World Class
Semifinalist

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Academy . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220702173538/https://www.dci.org/corps/the-academy . 2 July 2022 . 17 December 2022 . Drum Corps International.
  2. Web site: History . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220702164954/https://www.arizonaacademy.org/history/ . 2 July 2022 . 17 December 2022 . Arizona Academy of the Performing Arts.
  3. Web site: August 2004 . Out of Nowhere — the Arizona Academy story . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160812213456/https://www.drumcorpsworld.com/?m=200408 . 12 August 2016 . 15 March 2015 . Drum Corps World.
  4. Web site: 2006 Scores for The Academy . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160828160207/http://www.corpsreps.com/scores.cfm?view=corpsyrscore&corps=1455&corpstype=Junior&yearqry=2006 . 28 August 2016 . 15 March 2015 . Maher Associates, Inc./corpsreps.com.
  5. Web site: The Academy/Repertoire . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220407193421/http://www.corpsreps.com/dcx/index.cfm?view=corpslist&Corpsid=1455 . 7 April 2022 . 1 March 2018 . DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience.