Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps


The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets Drum Corps, known as SCVC or simply 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 and is the "B" corps of the World Class Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps. On August 7, 2018, the Vanguard Cadets won their sixth DCI Open Class Championship title.

History

The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets were formed in 1971 as a cadet feeder and training corps for the rapidly developing Santa Clara Vanguard. Starting out as a parade corps, by the middle of the Seventies, the corps had become a field corps that was more cute than competitive, but by the end of that decade, the Vanguard Cadets had become a truly competitive Class A corps within the West Coast region. The corps did its first major touring in 1990, going as far east as Dallas and Tulsa. In 1991, the corps traveled all the way to Marion, Ohio for the U.S. Open before attending its first DCI World Championships in Dallas, where it placed fourth of nineteen Class A corps, and advanced to Open Class prelims, finishing twenty-seventh of twenty-nine corps. In 1993, the corps became the first cadet corps to achieve DCI membership. In 2000, the Vanguard Cadets would again travel to the Drum Corps International World Championships. They would become the first feeder corps to win a championship in their division. This corps would also qualify for the Division I Semi-Finals. This would also be the first time an organization would have a corps and their feeder corps in the Semi-Finals together. The corps has traveled to both Open Class and World Class championships every year since 2011. Despite their cadet corps status, the Vanguard Cadets won their division in 2000, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2017 & 2018.
On September 5, 2018, Vanguard Music & Performing Arts, BD Performing Arts, and Drum Corps International announced that Vanguard Cadets "...will be restructured as a California-based drum corps..." and that both SCVC and the Blue Devils B Drum and Bugle Corps would not be attending DCI Open Class Championships in 2019.

Sponsorship

The Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps is sponsored by the Vanguard Music and Performing Arts, a 501 non-profit organization that has a Board of Directors, corps director, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission. Charles Frost was named the Executive Director on August 23, 2016. The parent organization also sponsors the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps.

Show summary 1982–2020

Source:
Gold background indicates DCI Championship; pale blue background indicates DCI Class Finalist; pale green background indicates DCI semifinalist; pale purple background indicates Open Class finalist and World Class semifinalist.
YearThemeRepertoireScoreDCI Placement
1982Main Theme & Can You Read My Mind by John Williams /
The Eagle and the Hawk by John Denver and Mike Taylor		Did not attend
1983Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich / Main Theme by John Williams /
Battle in the Mutara Nebula by James Horner /
When You Wish Upon a Star by Ned Washington / If You Believe by Charlie Smalls		Did not attend
1984Festive 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 by Charlie Smalls		Did not attend
1985Conquest by Alfred Newman / Forgotten Dreams by Leroy Anderson /
Hungarian Dance No. 2 by Johannes Brahms /
You'll Never Walk Alone by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II		Did not attend
1986Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione / Baja by Ary Barroso /
You Can't Hurry Love by Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland /
Imagine by John Lennon / Black Saddle by Michael Hennagin / Tradition by Jerry Bock		Did not attend
1987The Voyage Home by John Williams / Echano by Chuck Mangione /
Clock by John Holt / Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione		Did not attend
1988Scenes From the Louvre by Norman dello Joio / Market Street /
African Suiteby Neil Diamond, David Foster, and Maurice White /
Theme from Dirty Dancing by John Morris / Henry V by Sir William Walton		Did not attend
1989Mutiny on the Bounty by David Cooke / Children's Crusade by Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner /
Hopak / Waterskiing /
On My Own by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, and Jean-Marc Natel		Did not attend
1990Russian Sailor's Dance by Reinhold Gliere /
Who Will Buy by Lionel Bart / If You Believe by Charlie Smalls		Did not attend
1991Theme from The Big Country by Jerome Moross / In Quiet Dignity & Echoes of Ancient Battles by Checkfield /
This is One of Those Moments by Michel Legrand /
Anything but Lonely by Andrew Lloyd Webber		88.200
62.200		4th Div.II
27th Div.I
1992Selections from
Robin Hood
Prince of Thieves		Overture, Maid Marion, Little John and the Band in the Forest & The Final Battle at the Gallows
From Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves by Michael Kamen /
Danza Final by Alberto Ginestera		Did not attend
1993Selections 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
69.300		2nd Div.II
25th Div.I
1994The Music of
Michael Kamen		Courante, Concerto for Saxophone, Estampie,
Shining Through, Galliard
All by Michael Kamen		Did not attend
1995The Red Pony by Aaron Copland / Fall River Legend by Morton Gould / Wyatt Earp by James Newton HowardDid not attend
1996Piano Concerto No. 2, First Movement by Béla Bartók / Dance of the Comedians by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky /
Ballet Suite No 3 by Dmitri Shostakovich / Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev		Did not attend
1997Selections 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 by Andrew Lloyd Webber		Did not attend
1998Selections from
the Broadway Musical
Titanic		The Boarding-Godspeed Titanic, Barrett's Song, The Proposal & Ship of Dreams
All by Maury Yetson		93.7005th Div.II
1999Scenes 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
2000Journey 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!; Main From Light! & Escape...Into The Light!
by Stephen Melillo		94.350
74.700		1st Div.II
17th Div.I
2001Tempered 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
2002Molto Ritmico & Lento by Philip Sparke /
Timestorm by Stephen Melillo / Easter Symphony by David Holsinger		94.3504th Div.II
2003Overture 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
2004Engulfed Cathedral by Claude Debussy / The New Moon in the Old Man's Arms by Michael Kamen /
New Beginnings & Celebration Overture by Peter Boyer		92.475
94.725		4th Div.II
3rd Div. II/III
2005Through the Rainforest & The Anaconda by Key Poulan /
Message of The Man by Stephan Melillo /
Sentenced to Death & The Descent into the Dark Unknown
& Checkered Flag by Key Poulan		Did not attend
2006InnovationsMishima: Opening, Primacy of Number by Philip Glass / Water Dances: Gliding by Michael Nyman /
The Grid by Philip Glass		89.9255th Div.II
2007Ascension: Music from
The Divine Comedy		Purgatory, Inferno, Paradise & Ascension by Robert W. Smith90.4005th Div.II
2008PerspectivesPerspectives by James Peterson and Robby Elfman96.8251st Open Class
2009LoveWhen I Fall in Love by Edward Heyman / Seasons of Love by Jonathon Larson and Freddie Mercury /
Elephant Love Medley by Craig Armstrong, Baz Luhrmann, Many Others /
Tango de Roxanne by Sting and Mariano Mores /
Nessun Dorma by Giacomo Puccini		94.7002nd Open Class
2010ChakraIntroduction, Root and Sacral Chakras / Solar and Heart Chakras / Throat Chakra / Head and Crown Chakras
All by Key Poulan		Did not attend
2011BalanceSymmetry / Equilibrium / Harmony / Equality all by Key Poulan, Nate Bourg and Murray Gusseck94.200
72.850		3rd Open Class
23rd World Class
2012Heroes and LegendsFeaturing music by Samuel Barber, Jeff Beal, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Modeste Mussorgsky,
Key Poulan, Alfred Reed and Camille Saint-Saëns		93.800
72.750		3rd Open Class
22d World Class
2013The Art of WarUnto 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 by Aaron Copland		96.150
77.700		1st Open Class
21st World Class
2014The Road Not TakenKaval Sviri / Meetings Along the Edge by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar /
Forbidden Friendship & Test Drive by John Powell /
Symphony #5 by Ludwig van Beethoven / I'll Stand by You by Chrissie Hynde, Tom Kelly, and Billy Steinberg		81.650
80.000		2nd Open Class
18th World Class
2015On Cloud NineLife by Harry Gregson-Williams /
The Girl with the Plums by Tom Tykwer, :de:Johnny Klimek|Johnny Klimek, and Reinhold Heil /
Title track from Big Hero Six by Henry Jackman		81.225
79.350		1st Open Class
16th World Class
2016The OnePines of the Appian Way by Ottorino Respighi / Due Tremonti by Ludovico Einaudi /
Iza Ngosmo by Christopher Tin		78.850
78.000		2nd Open Class
20th World Class
2017In PiecesFeedback by Francisco Gabas, Francisco Lomeňa, Javier Martin, Marina Abad, Maxwell Wright,
Nitin Sawhney, Ramón Giménez, Sergio Ramos, and Xavier Turull /
Temen Oblak by Christopher Tin / Kaleidoscope by Fred Emory Smith / Harvest by John Mackey		80.725
81.975		1st Open Class
16th World Class
2018Off The WallBicycle 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
81.025		1st Open Class
18th World Class
2019What About UsWhat About Us by Alecia Moore, Steve Mac, Johnny McDaid /
Primacy of Number by Philip Glass /
Downside Up by Peter Gabriel / Three Ring by Fred Emory Smith & Ryan Adamsons /
Alone by Christopher Comstock 		Did not attend
2020Season cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic