Loss

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This performance of Don Ellis's "Loss" is from the Broadway musical Blast! The show itself might be described as "drum corps on stage," a reflection of its ties to former DCI corps, Star of Indiana. The trumpet soloist is Ben Harloff.

When I first saw it, I thought of Bianca Laura Vocke, Dubuque Colts color guard, who passed away on this date last month at the age of seventeen.

May she be remembered, in the coming season, wherever the young and talented march into competition. And may her spirit reside forever in movement and music as powerful and loving and eternally beautiful as this...