Don´t worry about the horses: they are build like tanks. But. And to be honest the gin* helps to get in front of them and make them go up… which they have to do if you want to touch their heart (a good luck thing).
So everybody who I showed the video of Ohio´s horse trick went like “AAAhHHH” and “OOOHHH”

*Gin was imported here by the british in the 1700´s but only after they stole the recipe from us, the dutch.

Hey! The great ancestor of this man (pedigree) was in a marching band! Galloping et all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft4urU8Sbcc&NR=1&feature=endscreen
never mind it was a triangle!

You should respect yourself a bit more!

The part I liked the most was the Lunar Module.

Thanks for sharing this!

To coordinate a show such as this is quite a feat. You first have someone who writes the ‘drill’ routine. This could be a simple drill with just a few pages or a complex one with a hundred pages. Everyone is notated in the drill such as F1 for Flute1, F2 – Flute2, etc. Each person in the band is given there notated number. Each person in the band usually has a drill book which tells them where they start and end for each page of drill and what measures in the music for that part of the drill. The drill routine then has to memorized usually along with the music. It is a lot of work and it still amazes me when large bands such as OSU learn these routines in just a few weeks time!

Jim

Also liked the use of Holst’s ‘Mars’ (3 minutes & 30 seconds in) – thinking that’s a case of Curiosity rewarded?!

Classic. Cheers Phil.

I am a high school band director. I love doing this job.

Last year we did a Star Trek show, which was fun. OSUMB is incredible. This Space Ex show was done just three weeks before that Video Game show everyone loved so much. Three weeks to learn a completely new show! Amazing! And the timing of this one was just four weeks after Armstrong’s death. I wonder if they decided to do it then?