From: fath1@husc8.harvard.edu (Michael Fath)
Newsgroups: alt.drumcorps
Subject: Crossmen News
Date: 7 Sep 92 02:51:57 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Someone had posted earlier a question about the guy backfield at Crossmen's 
show.  Well, I called Mr. Carl Ruocco, director of the Crossmen and asked
him about it.  The person dressed up in the old Crossmen uniform is called
"Bones" and Bones is part of the thematic structure of the Crossmen Drum and
Bugle Corps.  The Crossmen stress that the members of their corps make up a
close knit family.  When they give motivational speeches to the corps members,
they remind them that when you strip all else away, the bones remain.  The
bones are your core and will always be part of you.  "Bones" has been a part
of the Crossmen since early in their 18 year history and is a part of the
Crossmen roots.

When I asked Mr. Ruocco who played "Bones", he said he couldn't tell me
because that would imply that "Bones" was a person and not a symbol.  "Bones"
appears at most of the Crossmen's major performances including at DCE Finals
in Boston and Madison Finals this year.

Other news:  The Crossmen are continuing to explore New Age music but
definite pieces have not been picked out.

-music from their 1992 show is from the following sources:

Begin Sweet World - by Richard Stoltzman from the album "Begin Sweet World"
	in New Age section

Appalachian Morning and Under the Sun - from Paul Winter - Earth, Voices of a
	Planet - in New Age Section

Rain Forest - by Full Circle - part of the song "Puma" from their album
	called Full Circle  - in the jazz section

Their 1992 quote for their Music for the Planet Earth came from the notes in
the Paul Winter Earth album.  It is:

	"If the earth were only a few feet in diameter, floating a few feet 
above a field somewhere, pepole would come from everywhere to marvel at it.  
People would walk around it, marveling at its big pools of water, its little 
pools and the water flowing between the pools.  People would marvel at the 
bumps on it, and the holes in it, and they would marvel at the very thin layer 
of gas surrounding it and the water suspended in the gas.  The people would
marvel at all the creatures walking around the surface of the ball, and the
creatures in the water.  The people would declare it precious because it was
the only one, and they would protect it so that it would not be hurt.  The
ball would be the greatest wonder known, and people would come to behold it,
to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and to wonder how it could be.
People would love it, and defend it with their lives, because they would
somehow know that their lives, their own roundness, could be nothing without
it.  
	If the Earth were only a few feet in diameter."

I really like this quote.  It is especially meaningful to the Crossmen's
show when you remember that they use a ball of the Earth that is only a few
feet in diameter during the show.



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