Ohio Valley Thunder Fantasy Drum and Bugle Corps

What better way to mark the new era in America by celebrating her past? We take a look at what makes America so great, the freedom to dream! Through the music of some of America's most prominent composers Ticheli, Copland, Stamp, Goldsmith, and Goodwin, we are proud to present American Dreams.

 

Repertoire:

American Elegy - Frank Ticheli

Appalachian Spring - Aaron Copland

Pastime - Jack Stamp

Main Title (from Rudy) - Jerry Goldsmith

Sing, Sang, Sung - Gordon Goodwin

What I've felt, what I've known, sick and tired, I stand alone...could you be there, 'cause I'm the one who waits for you, or are you unforgiven, too?

In our Season 10 production, we explore the world of the ones who roam this Earth in search of acceptance, but never find it...

Mvt I- The Unforgiven - Metallica
Mvt II & III - Confession (Mvt. II from Symphony of Prayer) - J. Eric Schmidt
Mvt IV - Farewell - Apocalyptica

Finalist - DCP-I North Regional (Champaign, IL)
DCP-I Season X - Division I Semi-Finalist

Ohio Valley Thunder draws from the cinema hit "Across The Universe" for their Season IX production. Across the Universe follows Jude, Max, Lucy, Sadie, Joe, and Prudence through the turbulence of 1960s America, through war, protest, love, peace, free love, music, drug use, and new ways of living, drawing from the music of The Beatles to help explain the story.

Ohio Valley Thunder is proud to present "Across the Universe"

Onfield/Prelude - Girl
Opener - All My Lovin
Movement II - With A Little Help From My Friends
Movement III  (Ballad) - Let It Be
Movement IVa - Strawberry Fields
Movement IVb (Percussion Feature) - Revolution
Movement V - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Movement VI - Across the Universe
Movement VII - Hey Jude
Closer - All You Need Is Love

Bronze Medal - Division I - DCP-I West Regionals (Denver, CO)
DCP-I Season 9 Division I Semi-Finalist

For 10 weeks every summer, thousands of men and women ages 16-22 leave behind the comforts of home to travel on charter busses. They get sunburnt, injured, and take a physical beating to perfect an 11 1/2 minute show which they will perform on a semi-daily basis for those 10 weeks. For what you ask? Nothing more than the love of the art.

Ohio Valley Thunder salutes those people with their Season 8 program "The Boys (and Girls) of Summer"

Opener - Malaguena (Lecouna)
Movement II - Summertime (Gershwin)
Ballad - Hide and Seek (Heap)
Closer - Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury)

Broadway has always been a place of shining stars, and extravagant stages, dreams, and tales of far away places. That is the Broadway that many know and love. But Broadway has a dark side. In their Season 7 production, Ohio Valley Thunder explores that dark side, with "Midnight on 42nd Street: Music from the Dark Side of Broadway". Featuring music from the Broadway productions "The Phantom of the Opera", "Jekyll and Hyde", and "Wicked".

Opener - The Phantom of the Opera (from The Phantom of the Opera)
Movement II- Murder, Murder and Facade (from Jekyll and Hyde)
Movement III- Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from Phantom of the Opera)
Movement IV- Lost in the Darkness (from Jekyll and Hyde)
Closer - For Good and Nobody Mourns the Wicked (from Wicked)

Power. Passion. Anguish. Intensity. Emotion.

Someone who listens to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich will frequently use these descriptions to describe what they have just heard. These are fitting adjectives for a man who struggled against conformity and opression to make his creative vision a reality. Through the sounds of his Fourth Ballet Suite, and First and Twelfth Symphonies, OVT portrays the rebellion, isolation, and final liberation of Shostakovich's vision in "Heart of Darkness".

-Movement I- Fourth Ballet Suite Mvt. I-
-Movement II- First Symphony Mvt. II-
-Movement III- First Symphony Mvt. IV-
-Movement IV- Symphony No. 12 "The Year 1917"-

This season OVT takes you around our world via music. So get in, buckle up, and enjoy the ride!
Our tour starts in jolly ol' England with a short introductory statement of ''Rule Brittania" before sweeping into Holst's "March" from "First Suite in Eb".
The tour next goes to the wilds of the Africa, exploring the "dark continent" with the piece of the same name in Robert W. Smith's "Africa".
We next visit the Asian country of Korea, with the lush sweeping sounds, in the Korean "hill song", "Arirang".
Another stop in Europe, in the spicy sounds of Spain in the ever popular ''Malaguena", we have fused this with the brash favorite  "Malaga" for the best of Spain.
Finally the tour comes home to the good ol' United States with a medley of our beloved songs. We begin with a lone trumpet welcoming us home, and reminding us how beautiful our coutry is with "America The Beautiful", we then pay tribute to our march king John Philip Sousa in one of his most beloved marches ''The Stars and Stripes Forever'', and finally the show ends with a sweeping finale of our national athem, ''The Star Spangled Banner".

-Movement I- England-
-Movement II- Africa-
-Movement III- Korea-
-Movement IV- Spain-
-Movement V- U.S.A.-

 "Da dat dat da dat dat!", we all know that familiar lick from the 1985 Nintendo sensation Super Mario Bros. Now OVT brings the music from the classic to the field. The show opens in the familiar theme from the first level. Next the contras are featured in the "Underworld" theme. The waltz from the underwater level is featured in the third movement along with the mellophone and pit percussion.
The show comes to a fiery finale with the castle theme, and just as Princess Peach is rescued time begins to run out and a double time reprise of movement one is played, and as the clock runs down, the familiar "game over" lick is heard and the show comes to a close.

-Mvt. I- Level 1-
-Mvt. II- The Underworld-
-Mvt. III- Swimming Along-
-Mvt. IV- The Castle-
-Mvt. V- Time Is Running Out-

DCP-N Brass Gold Medal Season III
DCP-N Percussion Gold Medal Season III
DCP-I Division I Brass Silver Medal Season III