Please rate / categorize the Vanderbilt marching band for me

gadad
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:44:14 +0000

He is The Dept Head for The Blair School of Music, having graduated from Northwestern University with a masters in Music and then PHd from Iowa.



Those are some pretty serious credentials!



We are largely student-run (I’m a drill instructor this year, and was a uniform manager last year), although all final decisions ultimately go to the directors. A lot of the music we play has been arranged by band members/alums, and all the shows we do have student input. Our last show of the season (“the student show”) is completely written and taught by band members, which is something most other schools don’t do.



That sounds like the best of both worlds to me.