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- From: fath@mbcrr.dfci.harvard.edu (Michael Fath)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.marching.drumcorps
- Subject: from Prodigy - Judging
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 15:14:58 GMT
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- An interesting thread on judging:
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- Tom Vererber wrote:
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- Perhaps the hardest thing the activity is faced with and perhaps one that will
- never be perfected is the issue of judging. Personally, I feel it's a good
- thing now (not great, but adequate), but as time goes by it'll be fine tuned
- and tweeked out. The main problem is trying to judge an activity that has
- been described as a combination of both sport and art, with art being the
- issue. Is it possible or is there a fair way to associate a score with so
- many different entities in the activity? Possible ... sure anything's
- possible. A fair way? Maybe ... maybe not. I mean, who was a better
- painter, Picasso or Rembrandt? Who was a better author, Hemingway or Melville?
- You may say, "but Tom, there's the sport of it ... the competition ...
- America loves a chest-thumping winner and hates a loser and we need to have a
- means to determine by numbers who's numero uno!" Well, as far as sport
- goes, who was a better hitter, Aaron or Ruth. Who had the better corps - 76
- Blue Devils or 84 Garfield? These are totally unfair arguments!
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- Of course, I'm talking about different eras and perhaps getting on a tangent.
- My point is, if we want to compare an "apples and oranges" style of drumc
- corps within the same given year, a standardization of compulsory requirements
- is going to have to be implemented. There are many "sporting" activities out
- there that mesh in artistic qualities -- olympic figureskating, ballroom
- dancing, cheerleading, concert band compeitions (with required sight reading),
- etc. The compulsory areas don't have to be so rigid that it has to take
- away from the creative nature of drum corps. Just that if we want to maintain
- a fairness about drum corps judging perhaps something like this needs to be
- implemented.
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