[Magdalen] TECnical question

[Roger Stokes]

On 05/05/2015 15:40, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> Yet, toying can be done within the system, and no one seems to  complain.
>   
> The present regime of the UW-Madison Marching Band has taken to
> marching the band into the football stadiums with a showy fast high  step.
>   
> As a result, the players are unable to play the classical/original  version
> of the incomparable school song, "On Wisconsin", but instead play
> a sort of jazz version with short phrases.  It's all about how it  looks on
> TV and not how it sounds.  The Wisconsin Band (and most college  bands)
> have gotten so big that there is still a fairly big sound anyway.
>   
> Still, most former Wisconsin graduates and, especially, band members,
> think it is a travesty.
>   
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zbw2upU6U

I agree it's a travesty, and certainly does not deserve the description 
"marching band".  For me it just looks silly.

Roger