30+ Year Competition History Of The
Centerville High School Jazz Band

2003 Competition Show
Outside The Box

The 2002 Patterns in Jazz is a tough act to follow, but for 2003 we will be exploring another fascinating show theme that will keep you intrigued from week to week.  We have all heard the phrase "Think outside the box."  We hope to bring that concept to the marching band show in an interesting blend of musical and visual ideas.  The show is starting to take shape as the writing and designing progressing and the band members are learning the music, drill and routines.

The "Outside the Box" music is a very interesting piece of music that is a little bit "out there" but a lot of fun.  It is a modern concert band piece, Bizarro by Michael Daugherty.  It is not really all that bizarre but named after a comic book foe of Superman: Bizarro.  In the composer's own words, "Bizarro inhabits a musical world without strings, and revels in the brash energies of rock and big band jazz, propelled on his zany course by a fast tempo and rhythmic excitement."

The show starts with Bizarro-Movement 1 - two minute version of the beginning of the original piece.  Tone clusters, crescendos, decrescendos, and strong accents lead to a melodic statement first by the trombones and then jazzed up by the saxophones.  Then the flutes and muted trumpets introduce the main "happy" theme that is heard throughout the rest of the show.  The second song is a ballad entitled "Outside the Box", an original composition by Andrew Markworth based on the motives of the original.  It peaks with a Kenton style lush ballad impact and then fades away.  The Bizarro Closer returns to the fast and furious pace of the opener and goes through several variations including a jazz-rock big band shout chorus.  The show ends as one member put it, "a return to reality", but don't be sure until you see it.

The staff is very excited about the creative possibilities of "thinking outside the box" and developing another fantastic Centerville show.  We hope you enjoy it.

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