UCI Band: Commentary Index
Robert C. Carden IV
UCI Band Commentaries
December 31, 2000 - Road Trip.
December 17, 2000 - Los Angeles. For the first time in over a decade,
the UCI Band got on a bus and went on a road trip during the regular
basketball season. In fact, the last time I can recall us going on such
a trip was back when the Big West allowed bands and cheerleaders to visit the
other schools, and the last such year was around 1988.
November 25, 2000 - A Third Golden
Age. After our first exhibition game against the University of South
Dakota which UCI lost, by the way, we went to Pizza Hut in Newport Beach and
communed with one another. Food was being provided...
October 30, 1999 - Reflections. It's been a month now since the quarter started and we now have a sense of what this year is going to be like. So far so good...things are going better than I expected. Usually, the band's fortunes follow the basketball team's fortunes with a one year delay.
November 22, 1998 - Trouble is Brewing. It's almost
Thanksgiving and about this time, we have a good idea on how the band is going to be for
the rest of this season. For some mysterious reason, our numbers have dwindled (like
they always do), and this year, we seem to have taken most of the hit in the trumpet
section. I knew it was too good to be true. I guess having 17...
October 16, 1998 - UCI Marching Band? On Tuesday,
October 13, the UCI Band performed on KUCI for an on the air "pep
rally." As it turned out, we started the broadcast with the Fight Song,
then in the middle played a round of "Go Big Blue" (Fresno Lick for you old
timers), and ended the broadcast with the Fight Song. The KUCI announcers introduced
us...
September 4, 1998 - Another year has passed
and a new one is upon us. Last year, despite our rather small core nucleus of about
15 members, the UCI band made strong showings wherever it performed. Many people
were amazed at how much noise such a small group could make. Even more amazing...
Robert C. Carden IV.
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