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Genesis Drum and Bugle Corps
LocationAustin, Texas
DivisionWorld Class
Founded2009
DirectorChris Magonigal
Websitewww.genesisdbc.org

The Genesis Drum and Bugle Corps is a World Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps, based in Austin, Texas. Genesis performs in Drum Corps International (DCI) competitions.[1]

History

Sources:[2]

Genesis was founded in September 2009 as a means for youth of the Rio Grande Valley to compete in drum corps, which they saw as "the next level of musical competition"[citation needed] beyond marching band. Success was far from certain, at a time when national and worldwide economics were causing the demise of dozens of long-established corps.[citation needed] After an examination by DCI to determine the group's organizational stability, in May 2010, DCI announced that Genesis was approved to compete in that summer's competitive season.

Genesis logo

In its inaugural season, Genesis surprised many when it premiered at home in Texas. The corps then toured in Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio en route to the DCI Open Class World Championships in Michigan City, Indiana where the corps placed 9th in Open Class.

After its first year, Genesis' staff made the decision to have each season be a "rebirth of the corps,"[citation needed] combining new genres of music and visual ideas with the traditional drum corps idiom. In 2011 and 2012, the corps moved up in Open Class, placing 6th both seasons before moving on to World Class prelims, where they finished 30th and 29th. In 2011, Genesis won DCI's "Most Improved Corps" award for Open Class.[citation needed]

In 2013, the corps rose to a 3rd place Open Class finish. Genesis then competed in the DCI World Class Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, placing 23rd in semifinals, earning full DCI membership, and winning the World Class "Most Improved Corps" award.[citation needed] Additionally, Chris Magonigal was named DCI's Open Class Director of the Year.[citation needed]

In January 2014, Genesis announced that the corps would move its operations from Edinburg, Texas to Austin, Texas. Corps director Chris Magonigal stated: “With its centralized location, dedication to the arts, and its financial possibilities, Austin is the perfect city from which to operate our program.“[citation needed]

At the annual DCI meeting on January 27, 2017, Genesis was approved to compete as a World Class corps.[3]

Sponsorship

Genesis Drum and Bugle Corps is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) musical organization. Chris Magonigal is Executive Director, program coordinator, and corps director. Genesis also sponsors the Teatro Indoor Percussion ensemble, competing in the Winter Guard International Independent Open division.

Show summary (2010–2022)

Source:[2]

Key
Light blue background indicates DCI Open Class Finalist
Pale green background indicates DCI World Class Semifinalist
Year Repertoire World Championships
Score Placement
2010 One Night in the Valley
Quien Sabe (Who Knows) & La Suerte de los Tontos (from Cuban Fire Suite) by Johnny Richards / Autumn Leaves by Joseph Kosma & Jacques Prévert, adapted by Johnny Mercer / Mambo Inn by Mario Bauzá, Bobby Woodlen & Grace Sampson / 23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West by Dee Barton & William Joseph Russo / Malagueña by Ernesto Lecuona
84.000 9th Place
Open Class
Finalist
2011 Big Top After Dark
Scenes of a Psychotic Circus by Key Poulan / Send in the Clowns (from A Little Night Music) by Stephen Sondheim
86.850 6th Place
Open Class
Finalist
65.800 30th Place
World Class
2012 Epic
Strength of 1,000 Men by Thomas J. Bergersen / Someone Like You by Adele Adkins & Dan Wilson / Original Music by Edward Gobbel / United We Stand, Divided We Fall by Thomas J. Bergersen
85.500 6th Place
Open Class
Finalist
63.500 29th Place
World Class
2013 mOZaic
Over the Rainbow, We're Off to See the Wizard, If I Only Had a Brain & Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead! (all from The Wizard of Oz) by E.Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen / Ease on Down the Road (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / For Good (from Wicked) by Stephen Schwartz / Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd / Riders on the Storm by John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek & Jim Morrison (The Doors)
91.550 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
74.650 23rd Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2014 Art of Darkness
Strength of 1,000 Men & United We Stand, Divided We Fall by Thomas J. Bergersen / Lux Aeterna (from Requiem for a Dream) by Clint Mansell / Mad World by Roland Orzabal / Original Music by Edward Gobbel
77.900 3rd Place
Open Class
Finalist
74.075 23rd Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2015 Phantom Revisited
The Music of the Night, All I Ask of You, Masquerade, Think of Me, Angel of Music & Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
All from Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
75.750 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist
73.500 22nd Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2016 Hell Hath No Fury
Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2, Op. 64 by Sergei Prokofiev / Romeo and Juliet - Love Theme by Nino Rota / Uninvited by Alanis Morissette / My Heart is Broken by Amy Lee, Terry Balsamo, Tim McCord, Will Hunt & Zach Williams (Evanescence) / Dies Irae (from Requiem Mass) by Giuseppe Verdi / Dance of Vengeance (from Madea) by Samuel Barber
75.250 4th Place
Open Class
Finalist
73.375 23rd Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2017 The Other Side of Now
Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap / Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli / Master of Puppets by Cliff Burton, Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich (Metallica) / Land of Confusion by Tony Banks, Phil Collins & Mike Rutherford (Genesis) / Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell / Pure Imagination (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley / La Habanera (from Carmen) by Georges Bizet
76.213 23rd Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2018 RetroVertigo
The Day Begins by Peter Knight & Graeme Edge / The Rhythm of the Heat by Peter Gabriel / Retrovertigo by Trevor Dunn / None of Them Knew They Were Robots by Trey Spruance / Inside Straight by John Zorn / Enter Sandman by Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich (Metallica) / Hope by Jonathan Elias / Qué Sera Sera by Jay Livingston & Ray Evans
74.475 24th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2019 From the Ground Up
Organic Forest & Bulldozers and the Height of Industry by Key Poulan, Dave Marvin, Dan Bryan & Shawn Glyde / The Sound of War by Susanne Sundfør / The Corinthian Song by V. Michael McKay / Original Music by Key Poulan, Dave Marvil, Dan Bryan & Shawn Glyde
78.725 20th Place
World Class
Semifinalist
2020 Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 There's No Place Like Home
Kansas, The Tornado, Landing in Oz, Yellow Bricks, Poppies & Approaching the Emerald City by Key Poulan, Shawn Glyde, Mike Huestis & Dan Bryan / Power by Kanye West / The Wicked Witch and the Dark Castle by Shawn Glyde, Mike Huestis & Dan Bryan / Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) by Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg
No scored competitions
2022 Dorothy
Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) by E.Y. Harburg & Harold Arlen / Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John & Bernie Taupin / Songs from the Wood from Ian Anderson / Ballad of Heroes by Benjamin Britten
78.813 21st Place
World Class
Semifinalist

References

  1. ^ "Corps". Drum Corps International. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Genesis". DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Austin, Texas' Genesis approved for World Class competition". Drum Corps International. January 27, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2017.