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 The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps is a summer youth drum corps based in Madison, Wisconsin that competes in the Drum Corps International (DCI) circuit. Founded in 1938, it is the third oldest corps in the DCI circuit, after the Cadets, and the Racine Scouts, founded in 1934 and 1927, respectively. The corps is one of two remaining all-male corps, the other being The Cavaliers. The Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps belongs to the Madison Drum and Bugle Corps Association umbrella organization. Being of Boy Scout origin, the corps symbol is the fleur-de-lis. The members of the corps are registered with the Glacier's Edge Council of the Boy Scouts of America as Venturers. The corps song of the Madison Scouts is "You'll Never Walk Alone".
[edit] HistoryThe Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps was founded in 1938 after a group of Madison businessmen saw the Racine Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps perform and thought that Madison should have its very own Boy Scout drum and bugle corps.[1] Clarence H. Beebe led as executive director soon after the corps was conceived and continued in that position until his death in 1968.[1] In 1951, the corps split into the Madison Explorer Scouts and the Madison Junior Scouts, with the Junior corps serving as a feeder group for the Explorer corps. The Explorers were the first recognized musical post in the Boy Scouts of America and evolved into the current-day Madison Scouts.[citation needed] In 1995, the Juniors merged with the Capitolaires Drum and Bugle Corps (an all-female corps) to form the Capital Sound Drum and Bugle Corps.[2] The corps is a founding member of Drum Corps International. During the 1971 season, both the Explorers and Chicago Cavaliers (now The Cavaliers) performed shows that pushed the envelope of creativity.[3] The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) circuits imposed strict rules on competition in which no participating corps had a say. To overcome this, several youth corps, including the Madison Scouts, banded together to form DCI.[4] The first DCI world championships were held in 1972 in Whitewater, Wisconsin's Perkins Stadium.[5] Since 2003, the corps has begun every summer by learning the show on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and performing its dress rehearsal in Perkins Stadium before going on its national tour. The corps employed the use of a single female in the color guard in 1971 and in 2005 for the roles of Alice (Alice in Wonderland) and Carmen, respectively. Neither female was admitted to the corps as a member. The corps was DCI World Champion in 1975 and 1988. In addition, it placed second in 1974 and 1976 and third in 1981.[6] [edit] Seasons of note[edit] 1971The corps used a female to play the role of Alice from Alice in Wonderland in its field show. It placed 10th in the VFW Nationals with a score of 84.85. [edit] 1975The corps won its first DCI championship with a score of 92.50 after narrowly missing it in the 1974 season. In 2005, the 1975 Madison Scouts performance was voted as one of the shows to appear in the DCI Classic Countdown, a film of the top twelve shows of all time, with one show for each corps. [edit] 1988The Scouts won their second DCI championship with a score of 97.10, beating the undefeated Blue Devils and edging out the Santa Clara Vanguard by two-tenths of a point. After spending several weeks of the summer touring Europe as part of their 50th anniversary celebration, the corps entered the DCI Championships as a dark horse. The finals followed a unique preliminary competition that included undisclosed scores and placings. The last half of the show was Malagueña, a corps classic. This show was selected by fans for the second Classic Countdown in 2006. [edit] 1995The corps performed "A Drum Corps Fan's Dream: A Day in the Life of a Bull Fighter", placing 4th with a score of 95.40. The closing was Malaga, a corps classic. This show was picked for the third DCI Classic Countdown. [edit] 1996The corps, following their performance from the previous year, played a show entitled A Drum Corps Fan's Dream: Part Dos. [edit] 1997Near the end of the finals performance, the drum major picked up a camera, turned around and took a picture of the audience. The same move had first been made by a Madison drum major, to close out his 8th season in 1980 in Birmingham, Alabama. The corps placed 5th with a score of 93.90 and an entitled "The Pirates of Lake Mendota". (Lake Mendota is one of the lakes on which the city of Madison was founded.) [edit] 1999The corps performed a show based on the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar and finished in 6th place with a score of 93.40. This show had the biggest crowd reaction of any Madison Show in history. [edit] 2002With a program entitled "Conquest", the corps placed 14th in the semifinals with a score of 84.85 and did not advance to finals. This was only the second time since the inception of DCI that the corps did not make it to the World Championship finals, the first time being 30 years earlier at the first DCI, when the corps also placed 14th.  [edit] 2005The all-male corps featured a female in its field show for the second time in its history, with the guest performer portraying the role of Carmen from the opera of the same name. The show was entitled "The Carmen Project", and featured the music of West Side Story, in addition to that of Georges Bizet. The corps climbed to 6th place and had a score of 92.625. [edit] 20072007 brought another staff change for the Scouts, including the second director in four years. Madison's season started out roughly, with only a single DCI Division I corps not having posted a higher score than the Scouts. In response, the corps' field show was completely rewritten in midseason, and they rebounded to achieve 15th place at the semifinals, their lowest placement ever at semifinals and the third time the corps did not advance to finals. The program was entitled "Unbound" and included the music of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, Alanis Morissette's Uninvited, the "Pie Jesu" and "Agnus Dei" movements of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem Mass, Astor Piazolla's "Libertango", and El Tango de Roxanne, from the movie Moulin Rouge!. [edit] 20082008 saw a return to the World Championship finals for the Madison Scouts. Although the corps struggled early on in the season, placing as low as 18th place, it came from behind to capture 12th place by the end of the season. The program "La Noche de la Iguana" featured music celebrating Latin American culture. [edit] 2009In 2009 the Madison Scouts performed a classic Latin show, with a musical program called Relámpago. The repertoire was: Part I. The Forces of Nature — Original music by Vince Oliver and Malaga by Bill Holman; Part II. Two Left-Footed Mambo — Baron Cimetiere’s Mambo by Donald Grantham; Part III. Love Is in the Air — Original music by Vince Oliver; Part IV. A Turn to the Dark Side — Candela by Gabriela Ortiz; Part V. Relámpago’s Triumphant Return — Margariteña by Inocente Carreño. The show was about the life of a Mexican superhero named Relámpago. The Scouts ended in 15th place at DCI semi-finals at Lucus Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Scouts again made a push through the season starting as low as 19th place. 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