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Dear Reader,
We’ve set another record with this issue at 160 pages! We’re about to kick off the new season in just three weeks. From spring training reports, this will be a summer filled with bigger corps, stronger programs and more innovations to excite crowds from coast to coast and around the world. As most fans know, copyright clearance and video synchronizaton rights have become a prominent part of designers putting programs together each season. While we used to provide the worldwide listing of repertoire in the April issue, then May and now June., it has been getting later because corps are often waiting on one or more pieces of their music selections to receive permission. The 20-page section with music and photos of the corps that will be competing this summer begins on page 14. Staff member Dave Scott has annually compiled this material for a number of years and he’s developed many contacts with corps in order to accumulate the details. I also like to use additional photos from the previous season before 2019 images begin to come to me after the early-season shows. His taking on this major task is appreciated! This issue is another one filled with the final 2018 images submitted by our talented staff photographers, then we’ll turn to current images beginning to come in from shows that happen prior to the next issue -- July -- being released on Friday, June 28. That will be followed by nine more report-filled magazines produced for five Fridays in a row, a week off for DCI in Indianapolis, then follow-up material from the DCI championships before we offer coverage of DCA in the September edition and foreign title events in October. I’m pleased to welcome Michael Carlson back to the “Around the junior drum corps world” column as he takes over for Pat Chagnon who will return to concentrating on sideline photography this summer. And a special shoutout to the show sponsors that, along with all the commercial advertisers, contribute to making Drum Corps World possible! |
Steve Vickers
Publisher Drum Corps World  |
