Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps

Santa Clara Vanguard
Drum and Bugle Corps

File:Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps logo.jpg The Santa Clara Vanguard logo
Location	Santa Clara, California
Division	World Class
Founded	1967
Director	Gio Bastante
Championship titles	American Legion: 1970 CYO: 1983 VFW: 1971 DCI 1973 1974 1978 1981 1989 1999 2018
Website	www.scvanguard.org

File:SCV 50th Anniversary logo.jpg

SCV 50th anniversary logo, 2017

Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps is a competitive drum and bugle corps, based in Santa Clara, California. The Santa Clara Vanguard is one of the thirteen founding member corps of Drum Corps International (DCI) and a DCI World Champion, having won the title seven times.

The Santa Clara Vanguard, 2008

History

In March 1967, citing differences of opinion in the artistic direction of the Sparks Drum & Bugle Corps, its parents support group voted to return the corps to its former activity as a drum and bell corps with majorettes. After the vote, three adults took the corps' members aside and asked them if they would prefer to continue as a drum and bugle corps or to become a drum and bell corps. After the members chose a drum and bugle corps, their parents immediately started a new booster club to support the new corps. They waited until its members met for rehearsal the following week to select a name. After discussing and rejecting several possible names, the corps chose Santa Clara Vanguard.

In 1968, the corps embarked on its first tour to the Midwest. Although they did not place high at any of the competitions, the tour was a success because of the experience and exposure to the national drum corps scene. The corps also won its first field show that year in August 1968, at the Anaheim Kingsmen's Festival of Music. Santa Clara Vanguard capped off its year by winning the first of many California State Open Championships.

In 1971, the Blue Stars, Cavaliers, Madison Scouts, Santa Clara Vanguard, and the Troopers formed the Midwest Combine. This action was taken in reaction to the rigid rules of the American Legion and VFW and the low or nonexistent performance fees paid for appearing in the various competitions. The corps felt that not only were they having their creative potential as artistic performing groups stifled, but they were being financially starved. A similar group of eastern corps, the United Organization of Junior Corps (also known as the "Alliance"), was formed by the 27th Lancers, Garfield Cadets, Boston Crusaders, Blessed Sacrament Golden Knights, and Blue Rock. The Combine members felt that the corps should be making their own rules, operating their own competitions and championships, and keeping the bulk of the proceeds that those shows earned. For the 1971 season, the corps stuck together, offering show promoters the five corps as a package. Despite pressure on show sponsors, judges, and other drum corps, the Combine was a success.

In 1972, the Santa Clara Vanguard, along with the nine other corps from the Midwest Combine and the Alliance, plus the Anaheim Kingsmen, Argonne Rebels, and De La Salle Oaklands were the founding members of Drum Corps International. At the first DCI World Championships in Whitewater, Wisconsin, Santa Clara Vanguard finished in third place. Santa Clara would remain among DCI's top three corps for the organization's first eight years, winning the DCI World Championship in Whitewater in 1973, 1974, 1978.

Santa Clara Vanguard won its fourth DCI World Championship in 1981. Over the next seven years, Santa Clara Vanguard never placed below third before winning its fifth DCI title in 1989. They won their sixth DCI World Championship in 1999 and their seventh in 2018. Since Drum Corps International's founding in 1972, Santa Clara Vanguard has been the only corps to appear as a finalist in every World Championship.

On September 6, 2022, Gio Bastante was named the new corps director.

Sponsorship

The Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by the non-profit Vanguard Music and Performing Arts (VMAPA).

Show summary (1972–2022)

Source:

Key

Pale blue background indicates DCI World Class Finalist

Dark gold background indicates DCI World Class Champion

Year	Theme	Repertoire	Score	Placement
1972		Fanfare and Allegro by Clifton Williams / Henry V by Sir William Walton / Now Thank We All Our God by Johann Crüger, Martin Rinkart, and Catherine Winkworth / Wedding Celebration and Bottle Dance, If I Were A Rich Man & Chava Ballet (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick	87.35	3rd Place Open Class Finalist
1973		Fanfare and Allegro by Clifton Williams / Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten / Wedding Celebration, Bottle Dance & Chava Ballet (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick	88.65	1st Place Open Class Champion
1974		Siegfried's Rhine Journey (from Götterdämmerung) by Richard Wagner / Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten / Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein / A Little Night Music, Weekend in the Country & Send In the Clowns (from A Little Night Music) by Stephen Sondheim	89.50	1st Place Open Class Champion
1975		Entrance of the Emperor and His Court (from the Hary Janos Suite) by Zoltán Kodály / Dance of the Buffoons by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / To Life, If I Were A Rich Man, Sabbath Prayer, Chava Ballet & Bottle Dance (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick	91.00	2nd Place Open Class Finalist
1976		Hary Janos Suite by Zoltán Kodály / Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland / Black Orchid by Neal Hefti / Send In the Clowns (from A Little Night Music) by Stephen Sondheim	89.50	3rd Place Open Class Finalist
1977		Overture to a New Era by Caesar Giovannini / Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland / Make Our Garden Grow (from Candide) by Leonard Bernstein	89.85	3rd Place Open Class Finalist
1978		Overture to a New Era by Caesar Giovannini / Dance of Welcome, Adagio, Lezghinka & Gopak (from Gayne Ballet) by Aram Khachaturian / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / Bottle Dance (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick	91.55	1st Place Open Class Champion
1979		Verdi's Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi / Adagio, Lezghinka & Hopak (from Gayne Ballet) by Aram Khachaturian / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls / Bottle Dance (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick	90.70	3rd Place Open Class Finalist
1980		Fanfare Symphony No. 4 Opus 36 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Procession of the Nobles by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Stone Ground Seven by Roger Kellaway / Selections (from Evita) by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice / Jupiter (from The Planets) by Gustav Holst	85.60	7th Place Open Class Finalist
1981		Northridge by David Schaffer / Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra by Benjamin Britten / Slava by Leonard Bernstein / Don't Cry For Me Argentina (from Evita) by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice	94.00	1st Place Open Class Champion
1982		Third Symphony, Fourth Movement by Vittorio Giannini / Capriccio Espagnol by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Slava by Leonard Bernstein / Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland / Bottle Dance (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick	93.55	2nd Place Open Class Finalist
1983		Third Symphony, Fourth Movement by Vittorio Giannini / On The Town by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green / Appalachian Spring & Dream Sequence (from The Red Pony) by Aaron Copland	92.75	3rd Place Open Class Finalist
1984		Fanfare and Allegro by Clifton Williams / Musika Bohema by Zdeněk Lukáš / On The Town by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green / Tender Land by Aaron Copland	97.40	3rd Place Open Class Finalist
1985		Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Grover's Corner (from Our Town), Tender Land & The Red Pony by Aaron Copland	97.20	2nd Place Open Class Finalist
1986		Festive Overture by Dimitri Shostakovich / Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky	97.00	2nd Place Open Class Finalist
1987		Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed / Dance of the Tumblers by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov / Lezghinka & Lullaby by Aram Khachaturian / Hut of Baba Yaga & Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky	97.80	2nd Place Open Class Finalist
1988	Phantom of the Opera	Music of the Night, Angel of Music, Phantom of the Opera, Masquerade, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, Track Down This Murderer & All I Ask Of You All from Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe	96.90	2nd Place Open Class Finalist
1989	Phantom of the Opera	Angel of Music, Masquerade, Think of Me, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, All I Ask Of You, Track Down This Murderer, and Music of the Night All from Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe	98.80	1st Place Open Class Champion
1990	Carmen	Prelude and March, Intermezzo, March of the Toreadors, Changing of the Guard, Allegro Moderato, La Habanera & Gypsy Dance All from Carmen by Georges Bizet	94.00	6th Place Open Class Finalist
1991	Miss Saigon	Overture - What's This I Find?, Sun and Moon, Morning of the Dragon, Wedding Ceremony & The Fall of Saigon All from Miss Saigon by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Richard Maltby Jr.	94.40	4th Place Open Class Finalist
1992	Fiddler on the Roof	Tradition, Sabbath Prayer, To Life, If I Were A Rich Man, Chava Ballet, Wedding Celebration & Bottle Dance All from Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick	91.80	7th Place Division I Finalist
1993	Walton Trilogy	Johannesburg Festival Overture, Richard III & Agincourt Song (from Henry V) by Sir William Walton	90.40	7th Place Division I Finalist
1994	The Red Poppy	Hymn to Red October (from The Hunt For Red October) by Basil Poledouris / Triumphal Dance of the Coolies, Chinese Dances, Phoenix & Russian Sailor's Dance (from The Red Poppy) by Reinhold Glière / Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky	92.30	5th Place Division I Finalist
1995	Not the Nutcracker	The Clock Breaks by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / War of the Nuts by Dave Carico / Romance and Seduction, Celebration & The Journey Concludes by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	91.90	6th Place Division I Finalist
1996	La Mer	La Mer, 1st Movement by Claude Debussy / Oceans by Goff Richards / The Skyboat (from Waterworld) by James Newton Howard / La Mer, 3rd Movement by Claude Debussy	92.30	5th Place Division I Finalist
1997	Fog City Sketches	Lonely Town & Pas de Deux (from On The Town) / Presto Barbaro & City Dreams (from On the Waterfront) / The Masque, Variation 14 Poco più vivace & The Epilogue (from Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety) All by Leonard Bernstein	96.90	3rd Place Division I Finalist
1998	Copland, The Modernist	Grohg, Dance Panels, Down a Country Lane, Hear Ye! Hear Ye! & Grohg, Part II All by Aaron Copland	97.90	2nd Place Division I Finalist
1999	Inventions for a New Millennium	The Canyon by Philip Glass / Symphonies No. 2 & Symphony No. 1 by Samuel Barber / Blue Shades by Frank Ticheli	98.40	1st Place Division I Champion (tie)
2000	Age of Reverence	Prayers of Kierkegaard (Prayer No. 4) by Samuel Barber / String Quartet No. 4, Mvt. 5 & Piano Concerto No. 1, Mvt. 3 by Béla Bartók / Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings) by Samuel Barber / Stained Glass, 1st and 3rd Movements by David Gillingham	94.70	4th Place Division I Finalist
2001	New Era Metropolis	The Alarm by Dean Westman and Jim Casella / Short Ride in a Fast Machine by John Adams / Jug Blues and Fat Pickin' by Don Freund / Variants on a Medieval Tune by Norman Dello Joio / New Era Dance by Aaron Jay Kernis	95.35	4th Place Division I Finalist
2002	Sound, Shape, and Color	Trivandrum by Gordon Henderson / Symphony No. 2 by Howard Hanson / Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, Mvt. 2 & 3 by Aaron Copland	95.65	4th Place Division I Finalist
2003	Pathways	Orawa (Part 1) by Wojciech Kilar / One Man Show by Jeff Beal / Anima Mundi by Richard Danielpour / Orawa (Part 2) by Wojciech Kilar	94.70	5th Place Division I Finalist
2004	Attraction: The Music of Scheherazade	Selections from Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	96.825	3rd Place Division I Finalist
2005	Russia: Revolution - Evolution 1917 - 1991	Carol (from Russian Christmas Music) by Alfred Reed / Symphony No. 12 by Dmitri Shostakovich / Cathedral Chorus (from Russian Christmas Music) by Alfred Reed	88.65	8th Place Division I Finalist
2006	Moto Perpetuo	Chains of Reaction, Newton's Cradle, Echoes of Time & Speed of Sight All from Moto Perpetuo by Key Poulan	92.35	6th Place Division I Finalist
2007	! (Eureka)	Introduction & War Dance (from Daphnis and Chloé) & String Quartet in F Major, 2nd Movement by Maurice Ravel / Romanian Dance for Orchestra, Sz. 47a by Béla Bartók / St. Gregory the Great (from Church Windows) by Ottorino Respighi / Finale (from Daphnis and Chloé) by Maurice Ravel	94.175	5th Place Division I Finalist
2008	3HREE Mind, Body and Soul	The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra) by John Adams / The Man in the Bath by Philip Glass / Eclipse by Talvin Singh / Cloudburst by Eric Whitacre	93.025	7th Place World Class Finalist
2009	Ballet For Martha	Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland	95.65	5th Place World Class Finalist
2010	Bartók	Concerto for Orchestra & Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta by Béla Bartók	92.00	7th Place World Class Finalist
2011	The Devil's Staircase	First Essay for Orchestra by Samuel Barber / Piano Sonata No. 2, Mvt. 2 by Avner Dorman / The Eternal Knot by Karl Jenkins / Etude 13: The Devil's Staircase by György Ligeti	92.20	6th Place World Class Finalist
2012	Music of the Starry Night	Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine by Eric Whitacre / Hymn to a Blue Hour by John Mackey / Jupiter & Mars (from The Planets) by Gustav Holst / Music of The Night (from The Phantom of The Opera) by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe	94.45	5th Place World Class Finalist
2013	Les Misérables	Look Down, At the End of the Day, On My Own, Castle on a Cloud, One Day More, I Dreamed a Dream, Attack on the Rue Plumet, Red and Black, Bring Him Home & Do You Hear the People Sing? All from Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Jean-Marc Natel & Herbert Kretzmer	96.85	4th Place World Class Finalist
2014	Scheherazade: Words 2 Live By	Selections from Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	96.075	4th Place World Class Finalist
2015	The Spark of Invention	Invention in A Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach / Virus Attack by Amin Bhatia / Pure Imagination by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley / Piano Concerto by John Corigliano	93.850	5th Place World Class Finalist
2016	Force of Nature	Spring 1 (from Recomposed) by Max Richter / Without Warning by Stephen Melillo / Earth Song by Frank Ticheli / Winter 1 from Recomposed by Max Richter / After the Storm by Stephen Melillo	95.300	4th Place World Class Finalist
2017	Ouroboros	Interplay for Piano Four Hands and Orchestra by David Gillingham / The Triumph of Time by Peter Graham / Song of Eight Unruly Tipsy Poets by Zhou Long / Into a Virtual World by Amin Bhatia / Remembering the Future (from Wait of the World) by Stephen Melillo	97.600	2nd Place World Class Finalist
2018	Babylon	My Body Is a Cage by Arcade Fire, adapted by Peter Gabriel / Journey to the Center of the Earth by Peter Graham / Metropolis 1927 by Peter Graham / Apology by Zacarías M. de la Riva / Club Sound by Billy Bennett & Long Phung (Gent and Jawns)	98.625	1st Place World Class Champion
2019	Vox Eversio	Fraternity by Thierry Deleruyelle / Audivi Media Nocte by Oliver Waespi / Nothing Else Matters by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich (Metallica) / Rise Up by Paul & Sandi Rennick	96.600	3rd Place World Class Finalist
2020	Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Wait For Me	Original music by Galen Hooks (Santa Clara Vanguard did not perform live at DCI events in 2021)	No scored competitions
2022	Finding Nirvana	String Quartet No 1 (Metamorphoses Nocturnes) - Presto by György Ligeti / Breakfast in Baghdad by Ulf Wakenius / Mata Hari by Al Di Meola / Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana / Ambergris March by Björk / Territorial Pissings by Nirvana	95.000	5th Place World Class Finalist

Caption awards

At the annual World Championship Finals, Drum Corps International (DCI) presents named awards to the corps with the high average scores from prelims, semifinals, and finals in five captions. Santa Clara Vanguard has won these caption awards.

Don Angelica Best General Effect Award

• 2018

John Brazale Best Visual Performance Award

• 2018

George Zingali Best Color Guard Award

• 2017

Jim Ott Best Brass Performance Award

• 2018

Fred Sanford Best Percussion Performance Award

• 2004, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Prior to 2000 and the adoption of the current scoring format, Santa Clara Vanguard won these captions:

High General Effect Award

• 1972, 1973, 1974 (tie), 1975, 1978, 1987, 1989, 1999

High Visual Award

• 1977, 1981, 1984 (tie), 1985, 1987 (tie)

High Color Guard Award

• 1974, 1978, 1981, 1985

High Brass Award

• 1984 (3 way tie), 1987 (tie)

High Percussion Award

• 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1988, 1989, 1991 (3 way tie), 1998

Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps

Vanguard Cadets
Drum Corps

File:Vanguard Cadets logo.jpg
Location	Santa Clara, CA
Division	Open Class
Founded	1971
Director	Rafael Bretado
Championship titles	DCI Division II' 2000 Open Class, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018 & 2022
Website	scvanguard.org/vanguard_cadets/

The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets Drum Corps, also known as the Vanguard Cadets, is an Open Class competitive junior drum corps. Based in Santa Clara, California, the corps is a member of Drum Corps International (DCI) and is the feeder corps for the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps.

The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets were formed in 1971 as a cadet feeder and training corps for the Santa Clara Vanguard. They began as a parade corps, but by the end of the 1970s, the Vanguard Cadets had become a truly competitive Class A corps. The corps did its first major touring in 1990, and in 1991, they attended their first DCI World Championships in Dallas. In 1993, the corps became the first cadet corps to achieve DCI membership. In 2000, the Vanguard Cadets became the first feeder corps to win a championship in Division II (now Open Class). The corps also qualified for the Division I (now World Class) Semifinals. Despite their cadet status, the Vanguard Cadets won their division in 2000, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2022.

In September 2018, Vanguard Music & Performing Arts, BD Performing Arts, and Drum Corps International announced that the Vanguard Cadets would "be restructured as a California-based drum corps" and that both the Vanguard Cadets and the Blue Devils B Drum and Bugle Corps would not attend DCI Open Class Championships in 2019.

In September 2022, Vanguard Music & Performing Arts announced that the Vanguard Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps will be placed on hiatus for the 2023 season due to multiple unforeseen financial issues that faced both Vanguard corps during the previous season.

Sponsorship

The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by the Vanguard Music and Performing Arts (VMAPA), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Charles Frost was named the Executive Director on August 23, 2016.

Show summary (1982–2022)

Source:

Key

Light blue background indicates DCI Open Class Finalist

Goldenrod background indicates DCI Open Class Champion

Pale green background indicates DCI World Class Semifinalist

Year	Theme	Repertoire	World Championships
			Score	Placement
1982		Main Theme & Can You Read My Mind (from Superman) by John Williams / The Eagle and the Hawk by John Denver & Mike Taylor	Did not attend World Championships
1983		Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Main Theme (from Superman) by John Williams / Battle in the Mutara Nebula (from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) by James Horner / When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) by Ned Washington / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls
1984		Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Superman Medley by John Williams / Last Chance to Dance by T-Bone Burnett / Black Saddle by Michael Hennagin / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls
1985		Conquest (from Captain From Castile) by Alfred Newman / Forgotten Dreams by Leroy Anderson / Once in a Lifetime (from Stop the World I Want to Get Off) by Anthony Newley / Hungarian Dance No. 2 by Johannes Brahms / You'll Never Walk Alone (from Carousel) by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
1986		Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione / Baja by Ary Barroso / You Can't Hurry Love by Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland & Eddie Holland / Imagine by John Lennon / Black Saddle by Michael Hennagin / Tradition (from Fiddler on the Roof) by Jerry Bock
1987		The Voyage Home (From Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home) by Leonard Rosenman / Echano (from Children of Sanchez) by Chuck Mangione / Clock by John Holt / Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione
1988		Scenes From the Louvre by Norman dello Joio / Wild Life Market Street (The Yellowjackets) / In the Stone by Allee Willis, David Foster & Maurice White / Theme from Dirty Dancing by John Morris / Henry V by Sir William Walton
1989		Mutiny on the Bounty by David Cooke / Children's Crusade by Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner / Hopak (Traditional) / Waterskiing / On My Own (from Les Misérables) by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel
1990		Russian Sailor's Dance (from The Red Poppy) by Reinhold Gliere / Who Will Buy (from Oliver) by Lionel Bart / If You Believe (from The Wiz) by Charlie Smalls
1991		Theme from The Big Country by Jerome Moross / In Quiet Dignity & Echoes of Ancient Battles by Checkfield / This is One of Those Moments (from Yentl) by Michel Legrand / Anything but Lonely (from Aspects of Love) by Andrew Lloyd Webber	88.200	4th Place Class A & A60 Finalist
			62.200	27th Place Open Class
1992	Selections from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves	Overture, Maid Marion, Little John and the Band in the Forest & The Final Battle at the Gallows (all from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) by Michael Kamen / Danza Final (from Estancia Ballet) by Alberto Ginestera |	Did not attend World Championships
1993	Selections from Far and Away	Land Race, Oklahoma Territory, Blowing Off Steam, The Big Match & Race to the River All from Far and Away by John Williams	92.600	2nd Place Division II & III Finalist
			69.300	25th Place Division I
1994	The Music of Michael Kamen	Courante, Concerto for Saxophone, Estampie, Shining Through & Galliard All from The Three Musketeers by Michael Kamen	Did not attend World Championships
1995		The Red Pony by Aaron Copland / Fall River Legend by Morton Gould / Wyatt Earp by James Newton Howard
1996		Piano Concerto No. 2, First Mvt. by Béla Bartók / Dance of the Comedians by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Ballet Suite No. 3 by Dmitri Shostakovich / Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev
1997	Selections from Evita	Latin Chant; Buenos Aires; I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You; And The Money Kept Rolling In; Don't Cry For Me, Argentina; Santa Evita & A New Argentina All from Evita by Andrew Lloyd Webber
1998	Selections from the Broadway Musical Titanic	The Boarding: Godspeed Titanic, Barrett's Song, The Proposal & Ship of Dreams All from Titanic by Maury Yetson	93.700	5th Place Division II Finalist
1999		Scenes From the Louvre by Ottorino Respighi / The Gathering of the Ranks at Hebron by David Holsinger / Merry Mount Suite by Howard Hanson	Did not attend World Championships
2000	Journey From the Darkness	The Dream of Oenghus by Rolf Rudin / Song of Moses by David Holsinger / Message of the Man; The Cave, The Struggle and Man From The Light! & Escape...Into The Light! (from Escape From Plato's Cave) by Stephen Melillo	94.350	1st Place Division II & III Champion
			74.700	17th Place Division I Semifinalist
2001		Tempered Steel by Charles Rochester Young / Partita by Philip Sparke / The Gift of Love & Time to Take Back the Knights by Stephen Melillo	Did not attend World Championships
2002		Molto Ritmico & Lento (from Dance Movements) by Philip Sparke / Timestorm (from Stormworks) by Stephen Melillo / Easter Symphony by David Holsinger	94.350	4th Place Division II & III Finalist
2003		Overture to a New Era by Caesar Giovannini / Urban Dances by Richard Danielpour / American Beauty by Thomas Newman / Easter Symphony by David Holsinger	Did not attend World Championships
2004		Engulfed Cathedral by Claude Debussy / The New Moon in the Old Man's Arms by Michael Kamen / New Beginnings & Celebration Overture by Peter Boyer	94.725	3rd Place Division II & III Finalist
2005		Through the Rainforest & The Anaconda (from Amazonian Rainforest) by Key Poulan / Message of The Man (from Escape From Plato's Cave) by Stephan Melillo / Sentenced to Death & The Descent into the Dark Unknown (from The Pit and the Pendulum) & Checkered Flag (from Need for Speed) by Key Poulan	Did not attend World Championships
2006	Innovations	Mishima: Opening, Primacy of Number (from Naqoyqatsi) by Philip Glass / Water Dances: Gliding by Michael Nyman / The Grid (from Koyaanisqatsi) by Philip Glass	89.525	5th Place Division II & III Finalist
2007	Ascension: Music from The Divine Comedy	Purgatory, Inferno, Paradise & Ascension All from The Divine Comedy by Robert W. Smith	90.400	5th Place Division II & III Finalist
2008	Perspectives	Perspectives by James Peterson & Robby Elfman	96.825	1st Place Open Class Champion
2009	Love	When I Fall in Love by Edward Heyman / Seasons of Love (from Rent) by Jonathon Larson & Freddie Mercury / Elephant Love Medley (from Moulin Rouge!) by Craig Armstrong & Baz Luhrmann / El Tango de Roxanne (from Moulin Rouge!) by Sting & Mariano Mores / Nessun Dorma (from Turandot) by Giacomo Puccini	94.700	2nd Place Open Class Finalist
2010	Chakra	Introduction, Root and Sacral Chakras / Solar and Heart Chakras / Throat Chakra / Head and Crown Chakras All from Chakra by Key Poulan	Did not attend World Championships
2011	Balance	Symmetry, Equilibrium, Harmony & Equality All by Key Poulan, Nate Bourg & Murray Gusseck	94.200	3rd Place Open Class Finalist
			72.850	23rd Place World Class Semifinalist
2012	Heroes and Legends	Main Title (from Rome) by Jeff Beal / Danse Bacchanale (from Samson & Delilah) by Camille Saint-Saëns / Viva La Vida by Guy Berryman, Jonathan Buckland, William Champion & Chri Martin / Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance (from Medea) by Samuel Barber / Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from Phantom of the Opera) by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe & Charles Hart / Russian Christmas Music by Alfred Reed / Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky	93.800	3rd Place Open Class Finalist
			72.750	22nd Place World Class Semifinalist
2013	The Art of War	Unto the Breach by Key Poulan / Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky / Elegy for Dunkirk (from Atonement) by Dario Marianelli / Hut of Baba-Yaga (from Pictures at an Exhibition) by Modest Mussorgsky / Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber / The Promise of Living (from Tender Land) by Aaron Copland	96.150	1st Place Open Class Champion
			77.700	21st Place World Class Semifinalist
2014	The Road Not Taken	Kaval Sviri (Bulgarian Traditional) / Meetings Along the Edge by Philip Glass & Ravi Shankar / Forbidden Friendship & Test Drive (from How to Train Your Dragon) by John Powell / Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven / Secrets by Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic)	81.650	2nd Place Open Class Finalist
			80.200	18th Place World Class Semifinalist
2015	On Cloud Nine	Life (from Prometheus) by Harry Gregson-Williams / Awakening (from On Cloud Nine by Key Poulan, Fred Emory Smith & Casey Brohard / Girl with the Plums (from Perfume) by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek & Reinhold Heil / Big Hero Six by Henry Jackman	81.225	1st Place Open Class Champion
			79.350	16th Place World Class Semifinalist
2016	The One	Pines of the Appian Way by Ottorino Respighi / Due Tremonti by Ludovico Einaudi / Iza Ngosmo (Come Tomorrow) by Christopher Tin	78.850	2nd Place Open Class Finalist
			78.000	20th Place World Class Semifinalist
2017	In Pieces	Feedback by Francisco Gabas, Francisco Lomeňa, Javier Martin, Marina Abad, Maxwell Wright, Nitin Sawhney, Ramón Giménez, Sergio Ramos & Xavier Turull (Ojos de Brujo) / Temen Oblak by Christopher Tin / Kaleidoscope by Fred Emory Smith / Harvest by John Mackey	80.725	1st Place Open Class Champion
			81.975	16th Place World Class Semifinalist
2018	Off The Wall	Bicycle Race by Freddie Mercury / Sounding Board by Fred Emory Smith & Ryan Adamsons / Fly to Paradise by Eric Whitacre / Rebound by Fred Emory Smith & Ryan Adamsons	80.075	1st Place Open Class Champion
			81.025	18th Place World Class Semifinalist
2019	What About Us	What About Us by Alecia Moore (Pink), Steve Mac & Johnny McDaid / Primacy of Number (from Naqoyqatsi) by Philip Glass / Downside Up by Peter Gabriel / Three Ring by Fred Emory Smith & Ryan Adamsons / Alone by Christopher Comstock (Marshmello)	Did not attend World Championships
2020	Season cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Opted out of competition for the season
2022	Somewhere New		83.550	1st Place Open Class Champion
			81.050	18th Place World Class Semifinalist

External links

• Official website
• Vanguard Cadets official website