For Stanford Marching Band, its insult added to injury
As if things could not get any worse for the smart-alecky and sometimes sacrilegious members of the celebrated Stanford Marching Band.
First, the poor troupe gets banned from travel and then suspended through next spring after members broke the school’s alcohol rules. Even though they’re appealing the decision right to the top, the office of Provost John Etchemendy, there’s a good chance the boys and girls won’t be rehearsing together on campus much less performing until the spring when the Camelias and Azaleas break into blossom at The Farm.
And now comes word that not only will The Band not be performing Dec. 30 in El Paso when the Cardinal makes its fourth appearance in the Hyundai Sun Bowl, facing off against the University of North Carolina in the nation’s second-oldest bowl tournament. But The Band will be replaced by – are you ready for this, Cardinal fans? – a high-school band. From Texas.
The Band had actually been banned from traveling even before the recent suspension. So with the Stanford group out of the marching business for a few months, school administrators and Sun Bowl officials teamed up to replace them with some local kids who could handle the spotlight. They considered several bands, but what they were looking for, according to local press reports, was a band that would display the kind of “irreverence and exuberance” that the Stanford kids were famous, or infamous, for. How ironic.
Anyway, after watching YouTube videos, the officials found their irreverent and exuberant players in El Paso’s own Horizon High School Scorpion Marching Band. And as opposed to the band from Palo Also, these Texans actually wear matching band uniforms and, well, march.
Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/12/16/for-stanford-marching-band-its-insult-added-to-injury/
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