If one consciously looked at the flags, they would see said flags were really paint swatches for the new homeowners to check out. When the moving coverall costumes were removed to show the corps’ regular uniforms, some earlier versions of the Blue Stars uniforms were revealed.
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The second part of the show featured “Homeward Bound” by Paul Simon, off Simon & Garfunkel’s third album, the 1966 “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.” The song was originally recorded for the duo’s second album, “Sounds of Silence” and was written by Simon when he felt lonely being away from his girlfriend in 1964, separated from her by an ocean while performing in a series of clubs in London. When she was unveiled, she was in a different guard costume, representing someone living in the house. One guard member was rolled into the house, hidden under a box. It was lots of fun to look around and catch all the people in character one sitting at a desk talking on the phone, one resting on the bed, brass players in the dining room (waiting to be fed), all the color guard members in the bedroom, and all the drummers in the living room.Ĭorps arrangers Richard Saucedo, Ian Grom, and John Mapes wrote a little bit of original music for this part of the opener. By 90 seconds into the show, 113 corps members were dancing and celebrating the move-in. A variety of different visual brass features included tubists passing their tubas over their heads to each other. One musician was the foreman, arriving at a box with his mellophone. When they were unwrapped, they started spinning the flagpoles to which the bubble wrap had been attached. The unpacking also included four color guard members, who encased in bubble wrap, were wheeled into the house upon hand trucks. The first few minutes of the show were quite hectic due to the stress of unpacking the furniture. The featured music during this segment was “The Chairman Dances,” by minimalist composer John Adams, a 1985 work subtitled, “Foxtrot for Orchestra.” It was written alongside his famed opera, “Nixon in China,” imagining a youthful Mao Tse-Tung dancing the foxtrot with his mistress who was to become his future wife. The moving boxes and moving coveralls worn by corps members read, “Blue Stars Moving Co.” Each item was set into its proper room according to the large blueprint spread out on the field. When the doorbell rang, movers immediately started entering the house, bringing in lots of furniture, including lamps, couches, cribs, chairs, a bed, and a kitchen table.
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