Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps

Oregon Crusaders
Drum and Bugle Corps

Oregon Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps logo
Location Portland, Oregon
Founded 1971 and 2001
Championship titles DCI Div. III: 2004
WGI PIA 2009
DCI Open Class: 2012
Uniform Green jacket w/black and white compass rose
Black pants
Black shoes & socks
Black shako w/black plume

The Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps is a World Class (formerly Division I) competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Portland, Oregon, the corps is a member of Drum Corps International and was the undefeated Division III champion in 2004 and the undefeated Open Class (formerly Divisions II & III) champion in 2012.[1]

History

The original Oregon Crusaders junior drum and bugle corps was founded in Oregon City in 1971 by brothers Ron and David Jones, with 15-year-old David as Corps Director and 16-year-old Ron as composer, arranger, and drill designer. The first year corps consisted of a drill team with drum line, and is distinguished for suffering a bus breakdown as its 40 members were en route to the unit's only scheduled performance. The brothers reorganized in 1972, acquiring sponsorship of the Dickinson’s Gourmet Preserves Company (now owned by Smuckers) and fielded as Dickinson’s Oregon Crusaders. In 1973, the corps merged with the Imperial Cadets and marched as the 115 member Imperial Crusaders, but returned as the Oregon Crusaders in 1974 when the two corps split. After the Jones brothers aged out, the corps lapsed into inactivity.[2](See Note)

The Oregon Crusaders, 2008.

In 1999, Rick Wise inaugurated a corps in Medford then known as the Southern Oregon Crusaders, though not affiliated with the original entity. In 2001, a collection of Southern Oregon Crusaders personnel along with a new group of staff members moved to reorganize the unit. Bill Perkins was named executive director, and Portland, Oregon was designated as the corps' new home. The name was also shortened to, "The Oregon Crusaders." From 2001 to 2003, the growing corps performed valiantly throughout the western US garnering the attention of the larger drum corps community despite fledging membership and shoestring budget, which would including borrowed uniforms, horns and percussion equipment. In 2004, the corps traveled throughout the Western United States on its way to the DCI World Championships in Denver, where the corps won the Division III title, to complete an undefeated season. The corps made Finals of Division II/III, and now Open Class, every year thereafter, while marching more than 100 members. Under new rules in 2011, the Oregon Crusaders, after finishing second in Open Class for the second year in a row, also marched in the World Class Preliminaries and finished 22nd, outscoring three World Class corps. In the 2012 season, the Crusaders finished the season as the undefeated DCI Open Class champion in Michigan City, Indiana before advancing to the World Class Preliminareis in Indianapolis, where the corps advanced to semifinals, finishing nineteenth of thirtyfive corps. [2]

In October 2012, the corps announced its move into DCI's World Class.[3]

Note: The Jones brothers have established an attachment to the new organization and credit their experience in operating the original Oregon Crusaders for their later success in life. David, having been responsible for the corps' travel, today is vice president of a major, premium travel agency. Ron continued in music and is a successful Emmy- and Grammy-nominated composer of film and television soundtracks, and co-arranged the corps's 2003 program "Mysterious Mountain".[2]

Sponsorship

The Oregon Crusaders, 2008.

The Oregon Crusaders is a 501 (c)(3) musical organization that has a Board of Directors, Executive Director, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission. The Board President is Dr. Philip Marshall, and the Executive Director is Mike Quillen.

The Oregon Crusaders organization also sponsors OC Indoor, which has ensembles that compete during the winter at competitions in the Northwest Marching Band and Winter Guard International circuits. The Oregon Crusaders Independent Percussion Ensemble, organized in 2008, took first place at the 2009 WGI World Championships in the Percussion Independent A (PIA) and finished 3rd in 2010. In the 2011 season, the unit moved into World Class competition and has finished in WGI Independent World Class Finals in 2011, 2013, and 2014.[2][4] The Oregon Crusaders Independent Colorguard has been a finalist in WGI Independent A World Finals in 2014 and 2015.[5]

Mission statement

"The Oregon Crusaders holds a deep-seated philosophy of Education Through Performance. Our purpose, engrained in the by-laws of our organization, is to provide education through performance in the areas of percussion, brass, dance and visual ensemble artistry.

We believe that through the group’s achievement of artistic and performance excellence, and through the addition of a leadership curriculum that draws upon some of the leading leadership training methodologies used in corporate America, the organization provides the educational, cultural, interpersonal, physical and emotional growth necessary for our young people to become leaders."

Show Summary (2000-2016)

Source:[6][7]

Gold background indicates DCI Championship; Pale blue background indicates DCI Class Finalist.

Year Theme Repertoire Score DCI Placement
2000 Music With a Latin Flair Living La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin / Smooth by Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas /
Hot, Hot, Hot by Alphonsus Cassell aka Arrow
2001 Fantasia 2000 Fifth Symphony by Ludwig von Beethoven / The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas /
Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky
2002 Stormworks The Storm, Mourning of Destruction & Rebuilding (from Stormworks) by Stephen Melillo
2003 Mysterious Mountain -
A tribute to the music
of Alan Hovhaness 		Mysterious Mountain (Symphony 1) & Mount St. Helens Symphony (Symphony 50) by Alan Hovhaness
2004 Metro Metal Bronze: Ride by Samuel Hazo / Silver: Sleep by Eric Whitacre /
Gold: Tempered Steel by Charles Rochester Young 		65.15
87.425 		1st Div. III
7th Divs. II/III
2005 The Sands of Time Festival of Light by Stephen Melillo / Vintage by David Gillingham / Original Music by Lewis Norfleet 88.575
88.60 		7th Div. II
9th Divs. II/III
2006 Echo Echo by Lewis Norfleet / Snow Caps by Richard Saucedo / Equus by Eric Whitacre 92.675 4th Div. II
2007 Gates 1000 Airplanes on the Roof by Philip Glass / Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra by Ney Rosauro /
Acrostic Song (from Final Alice) by David Del Tredici / Wild Nights (from Harmonium) by John Adams 		80.75 5th Div. III
2008 Inner Connections Inner Connections by Todd Zimbelman and Nancy Galbraith 93.025 4th Open Class
2009 Equilibrium Philadelphia Stories by Michael Daugherty 87.95 8th Open Class
2010 Dance of the Flames The Dance of the Flames by Arno Elias / Arabian Waltz by Rabih Abou-Khalil /
Of Sailors and Whales by W. Francis McBeth / Hope (from The Prayer Cycle) by Jonathon Elias /
Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey 		94.00 2nd Open Class
2011 The Blue Hour Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig von Beethoven / Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli /
A Hymn to a Blue Hour by John Mackey /
Variciones Concertantes, Op. 23 by Alberto Ginastera 		94.70
75.15 		2nd Open Class
22nd World Class
2012 Dreaming In Color Sleep by Eric Whitacre / Detours by Travis Moddison /
El Tango de Roxanne (from Moulin Rouge!) by Will Jennings and Joe Sample / Libertango by Astor Piazolla /
Channel One Suite by Bill Reddie / Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin /
Fantasia on the Dargason by Gustav Holst / Rondeau (from Abdelazer) by Henry Purcell /
Simple Gifts by Joseph Brackett / Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey 		95.25
77.45		1st Open Class
19th World Class
2013 My Heart,
My Battle,
My Soul 		Going Home (from New World Symphony) by Antonín Dvořák, adapted by William Arms Fisher /
Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) by George Gershwin / House of the Rising Sun (Traditional) /
Rolling In The Deep by Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (Adele) / Jericho by Morton Gould 		81.050 17th
2014 Nevermore Mind Heist (from Inception) by Zack Hemsey / Huanpango by Kevin Walczyk /
The Alabados Song by Paul Bissell / The Hymn of Acxiom & My Medea by Vienna Teng /
Nocturne, Op. 33 & Medea's Dance of Vengeance. Op. 23A by Samuel Barber 		80.100 19th
2015 The Midnight Garden Cinderella Suite (No. 1, I. Introduction: No 1, III. Quarrel: No 1, VII. Cinderella's Waltz) by Sergei Prokofiev /
Lavender's Blue (Traditional) / Who Is She? & Pumpkin Pursuit (from Cinderella) by Patrick Doyle 		78.550 17th
2016 Hunted Hunter by Björk / NO one To kNOW one by Andy Akiho / Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen / Knights of Cydonia by Muse / Death Hunt by Bernard Herrmann TBD TBD

Traditions

Corps Symbol

The symbol of the Oregon Crusaders is the OC compass rose, along with the tagline "Performance. Art."

The Walk

On the final rehearsal evening of the season, the corps members march forward 5 yards for every year they have been in the corps. The members then direct the staff in marching, playing, and using guard equipment.

The Pre-show Shout

As they approach the stadium, the corps shouts "Stadium Lights!" In the case of the unfinished Lucas Oil Stadium in the 2009 season, they called out, "Stadium Crane."

Cape Day

On the last full day of rehearsal it has become traditional for the entire corps to wear a cape--- usually a towel. In addition, the soprano bugles/trumpets wear a tie with their cape. Most of the corps calls the day, "Cape Day" while the trumpets refer to it as "Trumpet Cape And Tie Day".

References

  1. ↑ http://www.dci.org
  2. 1 2 3 4 http://www.oregoncrusaders.org/main/site/about-oc/
  3. ↑ http://corpsreps.com/corpsreps.cfm?view=corpshist&corps=670&corpstype=Junior
  4. ↑ "Percussion Historical Scores". Winter Guard International. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Color Guard Historical Scores". Winter Guard International. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ http://corpsreps.com/corpsreps.cfm?view=corpsdet&corps=670&corpstype=Junior
  7. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/

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