Raiders Drum and Bugle Corps

The Raiders Drum & Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Burlington, New Jersey. The Raiders perform in Drum Corps International (DCI) competitions.[1]

Raiders Drum & Bugle Corps
LocationBurlington, New Jersey
DivisionOpen Class
Founded1990
DirectorBob Gupta
Championship titles
  • 2005

History

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The Raiders Drum and Bugle Corps was founded in 1990 by George Lavelle, Jr. with George Lavelle Sr., Trent Smith, Clarence Jackson, and Anthony Bestreski joining as members of the initial board of directors. The intent was to provide the opportunity for young people to march in a highly competitive drum corps at an economical cost.

After a year of planning and preparation, the Raiders took the field on June 22, 1991 with a corps of 25 members, defeating two of the other three Division II/III corps in the show. Marching a schedule of local DCI and Garden State Circuit (GSC) shows, the Raiders finished the season by taking second place in the GSC.

The corps' second season saw a growth of nearly 100% and a tour to Ohio, Iowa, and the DCI Division III Championship prelims in Whitewater, Wisconsin, where the corps placed 19th among 29 corps.

In 1993, the corps again grew in numbers and moved to Division II. The Raiders won the first of seven GSC titles that year and finished 15th of 15 corps at DCI Division II Championships in Jackson, Mississippi. The corps marched DII only two more years, finishing placing 14th of 18 corps at DCI in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1994 and 11th of 13 corps at DCI in Buffalo, New York in 1995.

The Raiders board made the decision to return to DIII in 1996 in order to cut expenses. This move paid off immediately, when the corps made finals and placed 7th of 31 corps at the DCI DIII Championships in Orlando, Florida. Over the following eleven years, the Raiders would make the DCI DIII Finals nine times and, in 2005, win the DCI Division III World Championship.

2005 DCI Division III World Champions.

In 2007, the Raiders moved back to Division II, placing 6th at the DCI Championships in Pasadena, California.

DCI combined Divisions II and III into Open Class in 2007, and the Raiders have been a finalist every year since, except 2018, placing as high as fifth at Michigan City (prelims) and Indianapolis, Indiana (semis & finals) in 2010.

Sponsorship

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The Raiders Drum & Bugle Corps is a program of A+ Education and Performing Arts, a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) musical organization. The corps' Executive Director is Bob Gupta.[4]

Show summary (1992–2024)

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Key
Light blue background indicates DCI Open Class Finalist[a]
Goldenrod background indicates DCI Open Class Champion[a]
  1. ^ a b From 1992–2007, the Raiders competed in Division II and Division III; and since 2008, they have competed in Open Class. These are the same tier, just renamed.
Year Repertoire World Championships
Score Placement
1991 Russian Sailor's Dance (from The Red Poppy) by Reinhold Glière / To the Last Whale by David Crosby & Graham Nash / Victory at Sea by Richard Rodgers Did not attend
World Championships
1992 Victory at Sea by Richard Rodgers 54.700 19th Place
Division III
1993 Queen
Who Wants To Live Forever & Flash's Theme (from Flash Gordon) by Brian May / Bicycle Race & Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddie Mercury
69.100 15th Place
Division II
1994 Jesus Christ Superstar
Overture, Heaven on Their Minds, I Don't Know How to Love Him, Simon Zealotes & Superstar
All from Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice
74.400 14th Place
Division II
1995 A Chorus Line
I Hope I Get It, At The Ballet, Music and The Mirror & One
All from A Chorus Line by Marvin Hamlisch & Edward Kleban
77.300 11th Place
Division II
1996 Sidewalks of New York
The Sidewalks of New York (East Side, West Side) by Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake / Take the 'A' Train by Billy Strayhorn / Harlem Nocturne by Earle Hagen & Dick Rogers / Central Park by Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea / Autumn in New York by Vernon Duke / (I'll Take) Manhattan by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart / The Sidewalks of New York (Reprise) by Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake
79.000 7th Place
Division III
Finalist
1997 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) by Duke Ellington & Irving Mills / Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me by Duke Ellington & Bob Russell / En Fuego (On Fire) by Michel Camilo / What a Wonderful World by Bob Thiele & George David Weiss / Air Mail Special by Benny Goodman, James Mundy & Charlie Christian 79.500 14th Place
Division III
1998 A Solstice Celebration / Winter Solstice
My Favorite Things (from The Sound Of Music) by Rodgers and Hammerstein / Sometimes in Winter by Steve Katz / O Holy Night by Adolphe Adam & John Sullivan Dwight / Snow by Irving Berlin
81.500 8th Place
Division III
Finalist
1999 A Trilogy of Darkness
Master of Puppets by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton & Kirk Hammett (Metallica) / Jazzhatten Suite by Oliver Nelson / Trilogy by Keith Emerson & Greg Lake
84.400 6th Place
Division III
Finalist
2000 Traditions and Innovations
Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff / Kashmir by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant & John Bonham / Sunrise by Donna Jean Godchaux
80.750 12th Place
Division III
2001 Pictures at an Exhibition
Promenade, Gnomus, The Old Castle, The Hut of Baba-Yaga & The Great Gate of Kiev
All from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
88.500 2nd Place
Division II & III
Finalist
2002 Balance
Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Masque by W. Francis McBeth / Fifth Symphony, Mvt. 4 by Dmitri Shostakovich
78.300 8th Place
Division II & III
2003 Carmina Burana
Carminua Burana by Carl Orff
81.200 4th Place
Division II & III
2004 Adams: A Sound Story
Wild Nights of Harmonium, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Harmonielehre - Mvt. III & Fearful Symmertries
All by John Adams
79.650 6th Place
Division II & III
Finalist
2005 Jesus Christ Superstar
Overture, Heaven on Our Minds, John 19:10, Garden of Gethsemene, Simon Zealotes & Jesus Christ Superstar
All from Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice
87.750 1st Place
Division II & III
Champion
2006 Coast to Coast
Awayday by Adam Gorb / Letter from Home by Pat Metheny / Strawberry Soup by Don Ellis
80.500 3rd Place
Division II & III
Finalist
2007 West Side Story
Prologue, Cool, I Have a Love, One Hand, One Heart, Mambo & Tonight
All from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
84.400 6th Place
Division II & III
Finalist
2008 Deep Blue
Selections from A Perfect Storm by James Horner / Original Music by Michael Hamilton & Colin Bell
86.250 9th Place
Open Class
Finalist
2009 Isle of Hope
American Elegy by Frank Ticheli / Hungarian Peasant Songs, Romanian Dance for Orchestra, Sz. 47a & Swineherds Dance by Béla Bartók / Gan Ainm (Traditional) / Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini
88.250 6th Place
Open Class
Finalist
2010 Platinum Celebration
Celebration Fanfare by Michael Hamilton / Exulate by Samuel Hazo / Exhilaration by Larry Clark / New Beginnings by Peter Boyer
89.150 5th Place
Open Class
Finalist
2011 Blueecentric
Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli / Bluesette by Toots Thielemans / Blue Rondo à la Turk & Bluette by Dave Brubeck / Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli / Bluesette by Toots Thielemans / Blue Rondo à la Turk & Bluette by Dave Brubeck / Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
81.900 10th Place
Open Class
Finalist
57.500 35th Place
World Class
2012 Warped
Warped by Key Poulan Warped by Key Poulan
82.000 10th Place
Open Class
Finalist
61.050 32nd Place
World Class
2013 The Raven: A Descent Into Madness
The Raven by Key Poulan The Raven by Key Poulan
84.950 9th Place
Open Class
Finalist
64.900 31st Place
World Class
2014 Seasons of the Earth
October by Eric Whitacre / Month of the Cold Moon by Roland Barrett / Into the Joy of Spring by James Swearingen / Kingfishers Catch Fire by John MackeyOctober by Eric Whitacre / Month of the Cold Moon by Roland Barrett / Into the Joy of Spring by James Swearingen / Kingfishers Catch Fire by John Mackey
69.100 9th Place
Open Class
Finalist
66.250 31st Place
World Class
2015 From the Ashes
Olympiada by Samuel Hazo / Fanfare - A Vision and A Dream by Ryan Nowlin / Our Yesterdays Lengthen Like Shadows by Samuel Hazo / Into The Light by Jay Bocook
63.600 11th Place
Open Class
Finalist
56.675 36th Place
World Class
2016 Industrial Evolution
Fearful Symmetries by John Adams / Hymn of Acxiom by Vienna Teng / Ballet Sacra by David HolsingerFearful Symmetries by John Adams / Hymn of Acxiom by Vienna Teng / Ballet Sacra by David Holsinger
66.825 10th Place
Open Class
Finalist
64.850 33rd Place
World Class
2017 Iconic
Who Wants to Live Forever by Brian May / Beat It by Michael Jackson / Let It Be by Lennon–McCartney / Runaway Baby by Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Brody Brown (The Smeezingtons) / Knights of Cydonia by Matt Bellamy / Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddie Mercury Who Wants to Live Forever by Brian May / Beat It by Michael Jackson / Let It Be by Lennon–McCartney / Runaway Baby by Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Brody Brown (The Smeezingtons) / Knights of Cydonia by Matt Bellamy / Bohemian Rhapsody by Freddie Mercury
64.975 12th Place
Open Class
Finalist
63.525 36th Place
World Class
2018 Beowulf: The Rise of a Legend
Beowulf: The Rise of a Legend by Jake Kaplan Beowulf: The Rise of a Legend by Jake Kaplan
62.675 14th Place
Open Class
60.025 39th Place
World Class
2019 Gateway to the Unknown
Discovery of the Portal, The Conversation, The Veil of Isolation, Teleportation & Our Connected Universe
All by Key Poulan, Dan Bryan & Travis Peterman Discovery of the Portal, The Conversation, The Veil of Isolation, Teleportation & Our Connected Universe
All by Key Poulan, Dan Bryan & Travis Peterman
64.250 12th Place
Open Class
Finalist
62.450 35th Place
World Class
2020 Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Opted out of competition for the season
2022 Use Your Imagination
Pure Imagination by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley / Hymn of Acxiom by Vienna Teng / Original Music by Key Poulan, Dan Bryan & Travis Peterman
67.625 13th Place
Open Class
65.825 34th Place
World Class
2023 Circus Reversus
Blazes and Thunder, Trip to the Circus & Clowns the in Send by Key Poulan & Marc Garside / From Now On (from The Greatest Showman) by Justin Paul & Benj Pasek
68.650 10th Place
Open Class
Finalist
67.175 31st Place
World Class
2024 Fan the Flame
Spark by Ed Sheeran & Aaron Dessner / Raging Out of Control by Michael Terry / Fire of Eternal Glory by Dmitri Shostakovich / We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel
73.375 7th Place
Open Class
Finalist
71.300 28th Place
World Class

References

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  1. ^ "Corps". Drum Corps International. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Raiders". DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Welcome to the Raiders Drum & Bugle Corps". A+ Education & Performing Arts. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  4. ^ "Staff". A+ Education & Performing Arts. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
  5. ^ "Raiders". DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
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