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2) Drumline
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Halftime is party time for the gifted street drummer who snares the top spot in his university's marching band. However, he initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than talent to reach the top.
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"Professor" Harold Hill is a con man who comes to River City, IA, in the weeks just prior to the 1912 Fourth of July celebration. Persuading the town that the youth of River City is in great danger of being corrupted, Hill convinces them that their need to organization a boy's band, with himself as a leader. Hill promises to teach the kids how to make music by utilizing his revolutionary "Think System." There's only one problem: the professor doesn't...
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For Sophie, small-town life has never felt small. With her four best friends, she can weather any storm. But when Sophie's beloved Acadia High School marching band is selected to march in the upcoming Rose Parade, it's her job to get them all the way to LA. Her plan? To persuade country singer Megan Pleasant, their Midwestern town's only claim to fame, to come back to Acadia to headline a fundraising festival. The only problem is that Megan has very...
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Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that--really, it's a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship,...
10) 20 music tales
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"From forming a schoolyard marching band to helping Ludwig van Beethoven write a symphony, your friends at PBS Kids really know how to put on a fantastic performance!"--Container.
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The Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps was founded in Casper, Wyoming, in November 1957. It was the dream of one man, Jim Jones. He believed that any kid who wanted to march with the Troopers should be afforded the chance. In 10 years, Jones took kids from Casper who had never marched before and turned them into national champions. The Troopers have played for celebrities and presidents, performed at football games and Disneyland, and marched in parades...
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French horn virtuoso Elsie Wyatt resents having to join her high school's marching band playing a melliphone, but finally finds a sense of belonging that transcends the pressure she has always felt to be as good as her father, principal french horn player in the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
13) Full flight
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Told in alternating perspectives, in a small town in Texas, mellophone player Weston Ryan and saxophonist Anna James are forced to work together on a duet for their school's marching band competition.
14) Christmas parade
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A delightful Christmas picture book filled with hilarious characters and dynamic art from the one and only Boynton! Full color.
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"The ultimate Cinderella story in music is in your hands. After twenty-three years of struggle, the once world famous Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps is back with a vengeance. For the first time since 1986, they will make a run at the 2009 Drum Corps International World Championship Finals, and compete to become one of the top 12 drum corps on the planet. This film is an in-depth look at the 2009 nationwide tour of the Troopers. It was shot entirely...
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"Yasmín Treviño didn't have much of a freshman year thanks to Hurricane Humphrey, but she's ready to take sophomore year by storm. That means mastering the marching side of marching band--fast!--so she can outshine her BFF Sofia as top of the flute section, earn first chair, and impress both her future college admission boards and her comfortably unattainable drum major crush Gilberto Reyes. But Yasmín steps off on the wrong foot when she reports...
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"For fifty years the young men and women of the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps traveled the nation, entertaining six Presidents, celebrities including John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Walter Brennan. Not to mention audiences that range into the millions. They have won eleven National Championships and became a founding member of Drum Corps International. They are one of the most respected drum corps in the history of the activity. In 2006 severe financial...
20) Forward march
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Harper McKinley is many things: a band geek, the daughter of the school dean, the daughter of the Republican presidential candidate... and the alleged owner of a lesbian profile on Tinder. Since Tinder profiles are forbidden for students at her school, and being gay is not in line with the family values of her father's political party, Harper faces serious consequences on two fronts if anyone finds out, but since she didn't make it, she can't delete...