Forte Drum and Bugle Corps
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The Forté Drum and Bugle Corps is an Open Class DCI drum and bugle corps
based in Grand Prairie, TX. Forté is formed under the Overture Youth Advocacy Through the Arts umbrella and marched its first season in 2010. The corps is based on its predecessor, Memphis Sound
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Forté was recently noted in the Drum Corps International's frequent podcast, FieldPass, for discussion of its debut season.
Drum and bugle corps (modern)
A drum and bugle corps, also known as a drum corps, is a musical marching unit consisting of brass instruments, percussion instruments, and color guard. Typically operating as independent non-profit organizations, drum corps perform in competitions, parades, festivals, and other civic functions...
based in Grand Prairie, TX. Forté is formed under the Overture Youth Advocacy Through the Arts umbrella and marched its first season in 2010. The corps is based on its predecessor, Memphis Sound
Memphis Sound
The Memphis Sound Drum and Bugle Corps was an Open Class DCI drum and bugle corps based in Collierville, TN. They won the Drum Corps International Division III World Championship in 2007...
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Forté was recently noted in the Drum Corps International's frequent podcast, FieldPass, for discussion of its debut season.
Show Summary
| Year | Position | Score | Show |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | 82.900 | In Caelum Fero, "All Love Can Be" (from A Beautiful Mind A Beautiful Mind (soundtrack) A Beautiful Mind is the original soundtrack album, on the Decca Records label, of the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly , Christopher Plummer and Paul Bettany... ), Allegro Vivace from Dance Suite, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, 'SIGNS' (James Newton Howard), The Planets (Gustav Holst Gustav Holst Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.... ) |
| 2011 | 13 | 79.200 | Brahms' Lullaby Brahms' Lullaby Cradle Song is the common name for a number of children's lullabies with similar lyrics, the original of which was Johannes Brahms's Wiegenlied: Guten Abend, gute Nacht , Op. 49, No. 4, published in 1868 and widely known as Brahms's Lullaby... , Selections from Avatar, Sleep (Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre Eric Whitacre is an American composer, conductor and lecturer. He is one of the most popular and performed composers of his generation. In 2008, the all-Whitacre choral CD Cloudburst became an international best-seller, topping the classical charts and earning a Grammy nomination... ), Silent Night Silent Night "Silent Night" is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song "Stille Nacht" were written in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, by the priest Father Joseph Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz Xaver Gruber... , Burly Brawl (The Matrix The Matrix The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving... ), Music for Prague: 1968 Music for Prague 1968 Music for Prague 1968 is a programmatic work written by Czech-born composer Karel Husa for symphonic band and later transcribed for full orchestra, written shortly after the crushing of the Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia in 1968. Karel Husa was sitting on the dock at his cottage in... , Chorale VI - Sol Fa (Karl Jenkins Karl Jenkins -Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace... ), We Go On (from Millennium Celebration Millennium Celebration The Millennium Celebration was a celebration at the Walt Disney World Resort of the changing of the millennium. The celebration ran from October 1, 1999 to January 1, 2001. The celebration was primarily based at Epcot, with its emphasis on human potential and the possibilities of the future... ) |