2018 The Cavaliers - "On Madness and Creativity"

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“Oh What a World (Samples: ‘Bolero’)”
Written by Rufus Wainwright, Maurice Joseph Ravel
Published by Universal Music - MGB Songs obo Durand Ed, Universal Music - MGB Songs
obo Arima Corp, Universal Music - MGB Songs obo Nordice B.V., WB Music Corp
Used with permission. All rights reserved
Tresóna License Number: 326753
“Bolero”
Written by Maurice Joseph Ravel
Published by Universal Music MGB Songs obo Durand SA
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“Rose of Arimathea”
Written by Hans Zimmer
Published by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC obo New Colorful Picture Music Inc.
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“Orava (Orawa)”
Written by Wojciech Kilar
Published by European American Music Distributors Co, U.S. obo Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne S.A. © 1986
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“Unraveled”
Written by Michael Martin
Published by Michael Martin Music
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“Black Angels”
Written by George Crumb
Published by C.F. Peters Corporation
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“The Triumph of Time”
Written by Peter John Graham
Published by Gramercy Music UK
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“Vanishing Act”
Written by Lou Reed
Published by EMI Blackwood Music Inc. obo Lou Reed Music
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“Alicia Discovers Nash’s Dark World (from ‘A Beautiful Mind’)”
Written by James Horner
Published by Universal-MCA Music Publishing Div. of Universal Music Corp, Sony/ATV
Tunes LLC obo SKG Songs
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“Somewhere Over the Rainbow (from ‘Wizard of Oz’)”
Written by Ey Harburg, Harold Arlen
Published by Alfred obo EMI Mills Music Inc.
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[@Aurelyis]

Can we just talk about how nasty this snare break is (nasty as in good)

[@T1tanz]

It was super clean for finals and made an already fun show even more fun to watch.

[@popeyesailor9571]

Cav's strength has been their drumline forever. The thing i like about them is every single one of them is a performer to the max. They really sell their product.

[@jeremyquiros5483]

I loved this show, but good grief it made a case for outlawing tarps. I witnessed a bass drum fall in semis and AGAIN in finals, in the section after where this clip ends.

[@Danny-sy7bg]

You would hate boa o’fallon township’s last two shows lmao

[@RX7-111]

@@Danny-sy7bg found u again

[@jacobhickle7577]

My schools show in 2017 was a nightmare we had almost the entire feild covered in tarps at the end of the show. and at semi state 1 tarp almost blew away.

[@estonhensley3684]

Laughs in troopers 2017

[@jaggerishaan2345]

instablaster.

[@ohhellfire2728]

this section had more notes than a lot of other corps entire books lmao

[@jjh2456]

Except Crown

[@the1aj39]

More notes than BD especially 😆

[@MrDJKAIKAI]

@@jjh2456 lmao cap

[@wasianlife978]

The marching xylo+quad break is such an amazing feature I love it

[@spencerharris7671]

1:00 the tubas make this

[@nickniehaus1763]

Spencer Harris it's incredible

[@Danny-sy7bg]

*the synth makes this

[@Danny-sy7bg]

Just found out from someone in the cavs that the synth played triplets not long notes

[@tylerhinton4664]

Dan The Crayon The synth played the tuba part

[@Maikel098]

2:05 That baby in the audience is impressed....

[@T1tanz]

Fell in love with the Cavaliers again

[@malditobandito98]

god those snares are so fookin B E E F Y P H A T

[@abrahammughal7313]

Meaty tubas

[@keldmore]

is this the cavalweirs.

[@brennan9629]

underrated show

[@fadededed]

God those snares! Good show yall, really underrated

[@cat-dk3ql]

easily my favorite boyband 🤩🤩

[@percy445]

a gorgeous show! wish some of the more emotional parts were in here.

[@brysongraves2202]

to be completely honest i wish they put the opener, because i’ve been obsessed with it for months, but this is probably the best section besides the closer

[@percy445]

@Micah Lall-Trail thanks?

[@kree89]

The cavaliers are so fun to watch holy shit

[@johnna1234]

1:40 quads plume falls out

[@CorynWarriorKitty]

Loved this show!! Even if a lot of people thought it was a metaphor for coming out. Cascades 2016 should take some Tips on Cavi’s version of Orawa in this show (they used the same song) . It’s beautiful. Music is great.

[@nickniehaus1763]

Normally-Unnatural Iolite we should all remember that Bohemian Rhapsody was also Freddie Mercury's coming out somg

[@keldmore]

- micheakl ,scout

[@dreamsspng5721]

Thanks for giving the contras a little “bass” 😏

[@edwardli4511]

yw

[@dontwaste111]

@@edwardli4511 *left pinky strength intensifies*

[@michaelcollins9715]

Edward Li Miss you cheese!

[@Danny-sy7bg]

Found out from someone in the cavs that the synths dont play long notes like the tubas

[@strombolian6748]

2:31 they dropped a rifle

[@acousticfoam4184]

Strombolian poor guy

[@acousticfoam4184]

Those snares sound like mcdonalds sprite.

[@keldmore]

dang that is MAD CREATIVE!

[@mister-4646]

1:32 is that a timpani or am I tripping

[@jjh2456]

Notice how some of the guard is wearing a version of the Mad World uniforms while others are wearing a version of the Machine uniforms.

[@prince-yx8ok]

I didn’t even know bro

[@andrewprawat8199]

i feel like im the only one who thinks a lot of the aspects of this show are super forced

[@anthonyspacing5037]

Why is the mello holding his 3rd valve tuning slide during his solo?

[@gabemajarocon5654]

AnthonySpacing That’s the mic attachment

[@elizabethclarence3817]

that rifle line😪

[@bobstrempie9424]

I don’t get it. Way to much prancing and gyrating for my taste. Give me a great university marching band any day.

[@Junkman2008]

So when did they start using amps for the solos?

[@Junkman2008]

@Micah Lall-Trail Wow. I don't think amps should be allowed at all.

[@cadet8376]

WHY WOULDNT YOU START AT 1:56 ?!?!?!?!

[@benkessler4439]

Mostly because the two small percussion features in this show were incredibly impressive, snares on the technical end with the insane splits and the marching xylos with the tenors. I feel like that was a big reason people knew this show so it makes sense that they kept it in imo.

[@Patriot2452]

Drummer kicks when he shouldnt 0:10

[@organboi]

Any DCI newbie in the stands would have thought Cavaliers are a Gay Men's Corps after seeing this show. The last movement goes down in history as the most contrived forcing of a design team's personal interests EVER. They couldn't care less about the members, but only how they could USE the corps to their own selfish ends. Making the entire corps sing Rufus Wainwright worst lyrics possible, set to a campy Broadway style musical arrangement is criminal imo. "Men reading fashion magazines. Straight men." No drum corps should ever have to sing such words on a field. That isn't what seriously talented musicians pay thousands of dollars to do when getting into a top corps. Colossal fail of a show. Gee thanks, designers and director. It's hard to believe this is the same corps that gave us Frameworks and Spin Cycle. (I still bow down to all involved in the creation and performance of both shows.)

[@JohnSmith-1acjrigek]

While the closer may have been confusing, it had nothing to do with being gay. I’d encourage you to look into the show a bit more. Secondly, I had no problem with it (spoiler, I’m a Cavalier). Thirdly, there are many members of our corps who are gay. I don’t think a single member had an issue with singing Rufus’s lyrics. Also we are a gay men’s corps. A straight men’s corps. Thank you for being a Cavalier fan.

[@jesuspectre9883]

Here are the lyrics to Rufus Wainwright's "Oh What a World." Men reading fashion magazines Oh, what a world it seems we live in Straight men Oh, what a world we live in Why am I always on a plane or a fast train? Oh, what a world my parents gave me Always traveling, but not in love Still, I think I'm doing fine Wouldn't it be a lovely headline "Life Is Beautiful" on The New York Times? Men reading fashion magazines (men reading fashion magazines) Oh, what a world it seems we live in Straight men Oh, what a world we live in Why am I always on a plane or a fast train? Oh, what a world my parents gave me Always (always) traveling, but not in love Still, I think I'm doing fine (I'm doing fine) Wouldn't it be a lovely headline "Life Is Beautiful" on The New York Times? Oh, what a world we live in Why am I always on a plane or a fast train? Oh, what a world my parents gave me Always traveling, but not in love Still, I think I'm doing fine (I'm doing fine) Wouldn't it be a lovely headline "Life Is Beautiful"? It's clear that the lyrics address straight and gay roles in society, and social expectations for gay and straight men. That's not a bad thematic idea, in itself. It doesn't work for the Cavaliers who have never publicly acknowledged gay membership, so it's a little awkward. However, no less awkward than continually playing Somewhere Over the Rainbow, a gay anthem, without any formal context or articulation of purpose. The problem comes in placing this song in the context of mental illness. "On Madness and Creativity" displayed John Nash's relativity theory, as Nash suffered from a severe mental illness. And gay men are, according to the dimwitted designer, mentally ill and in need of self- therapy that Nash prescribed for himself. That's so nearsighted, so fascist, so toxic, it really can't be believed. The color guard in this show was encouraged to "camp it up", a disturbing cliche that gay men are all effeminate and overdramatic, and can "cure" themselves like John Nash did by training their own minds. The rorschach blotters, a well known psychological test, were rainbow colored in this show, a reference linking gay men to mental illness, long since debunked in the 1950's by Dr. Evelyn Hooker. One disturbing set piece in the show is when the presumably gay men depicted in Rufus Wainwright's song are "freed" from confinement, and spill out of a prison cell. How does their unlawful arrest aned imprisonment as happeneed in the 1950's, relate to mental illness? Please don't tell us that gay men are simply incarcerating themselves, and with a change of mind can "free" themselves of discrimination. My god, what a misaligned show. The same artistic director who created this show also created a high school marching band show setting Romeo and Juliet in a fish tank, a dismissive, frivolous take on a profoundly important work about forbidden love and societal approval of only certain partnership roles. Simple storyboarding helps imbroglios like this. This show ranks right up there with the very worst drum corps shows of all time, where people are harassed, discriminated against, or culturally misappropriated. 1) Cavaliers' Propaganda - "Propaganda is in the eye of the beholder. Nazi propaganda. Meow Mix commercials. Same thing." Truly awful. 2) Madison Scouts - Last Man Standing - is this Mad Max or a display of native American cliches with tipis and scalpings. 3) Cadets Behold - While the corps former management was literally on trial for harassment, on the field, the corps depicted a harassed princess wearing red vaginas emblazoned on her dress, who gets slapped down the stairs by men (the audience applauded), raped, and ignored. She magically heals herself and re-enters and dances to honky tonk music (later deleted). Just unthinkably awful. 4) Cadets - Power of Ten - Shostakovich's 10th symphony is about the killing of millions of soviet citizens by Stalin. Not the tenth element on the period table, neon. That's just a stark misinterpretation, as delineated by the respected internationally respected conductor, Gustav Dudamel. Ignoring the original intention by the composer,

[@ms-mo8hl]

The guard was just so messy. Sad

[@Danny-sy7bg]

This show would have been so much better if it had a less controversial story

[@Danny-sy7bg]

Its about gay people being locked up in insane asylums and escaping, and brings up changing times and stuff, with the imagery of color escaping prisons, somewhere over the rainbow, and the words from oh what a world by rufus wainright

[@Danny-sy7bg]

“Men reading fashion magazines Oh what a world it seems we live in Straight men Oh what a world we live in Why am i always on a plane or a fast train Oh what a world my parents gave me”

[@lchs-cg7044]

No, not at all. Read the backstories on the composer Ravel ("Bolero") and painter Anne Adams, and just Google the title to get the real story from The Cavaliers. It's a complex show and you'll enjoy it more after reading the design team's notes.

[@jesuspectre9883]

​@@lchs-cg7044 Daniel Wiles should be fired for his illiteracy and screaming incompetence demonstrated in this bigoted design. It's that bad. This show was a horrific, unthinkably reckless paralleling of Ravel's schizophrenia with gay men's psychological "disease" (with no reference to any historic time period to justify its negative depiction of gay men.) In this show, the imprisonment looks present day. Wainwright's lyrics are present day. (Dr. Evelyn Hooker changed the American Medical Association's diagnosis of gay men in the 50's. That's the era when the unfounded diagnosis of gay men changed. That was 70 years ago.) But in this show, there's no context given for gay "mental illness". In this show, it appears to be a present-day issue somehow, and to broach the fascist postulate that gay men are mentally ill, and representing them as Las Vegas-dressed drag show queens without any context is utterly dehumanizing, degrading and insensitive. Gay men thwarted the fascist accusations of mental illness in the 1950's, but in this show, it appears to be a present-day accusation, and based on the guard's outrageous histrionics in this show, they deserve a mental illness diagnosis! It's a horrifyingly degrading portrayal in an amateurish, and narrow-minded show concept. If you're the Cavaliers director and you're going to broach the sensitive topic of gay men being imprisoned for being gay, that's an incredibly sensitive topic from history, and one that's not mentioned in the Rufus Wainright song at all, by the way. Who would think of equating Ravel's schizophrenia with accusing gay men of being mentally ill? Who does that? Not Rufus Wainwright. There's no suggestion of mental illness in Wainwright's version of Bolero. Who would even equate being gay with being mentally ill? Daniel Wiles would. Because Daniel Wiles associated the "self-cure" of Ravel and John Nash's schizophrenia with the "self-cure" of being gay. Are you on the floor yet from this ignorance? You should be. In this show, Daniel Wiles illustrated gay men as having an understood mental illness that is "curable". And you have Cavaliers performers wearing full length mylar rainbow-colored dresses and over-exaggerating feminine expressions, and when you recklessly display rainbow-colored rorschach blotters, and you don't explain it or put them in context with any discussion about history, it's a career-ending directoral gaffe. Daniel Wiles needed to be slapped with a defamation warning from the Human Rights Campaign for his wholesale, stereotypical, bigoted depiction of gay men. Worse, no one on the Cavaliers staff addressed the topic of gays being subjugated with wrongful mental illness diagnosis in history, at all. Get it? There was no discussion, no context, no ownership of the sensitive topic, all season No one on the staff said a word. It's so reckless, so subjugating, so slap-dash, so offensive, so ignorant, so bigoted and the gay characters so flamboyant and so offensively characterized to represent all gay men, it's a career-ending atrocity, and one of the worst drum corps show designs of all time. Gasp-inducingly ignorant and a blight on the history of this activity. Wiles should be banned from the activity for his reckless, fascist portrayal of gay men as flamboyant, overdramatic cross-dressers with campy, illogical expressions, and equating them with schizophrenics. Stultifyingly stupid, eye-poppingly bigoted, and a sign that Wiles is clearly illiterate and should be nowhere near a design meeting.