Ohio State marching band explores the space race at halftime
Buckeye fans know The Ohio State University Marching Band musicians have the right stuff, and they proved it with a tribute to the dawn of the space age at halftime during the football game against Michigan State University.
Titled "One Giant Leap," the halftime show mixed music from "The Right Stuff," "Apollo 13" and "First Man" with formations that included a rocket blasting off from Cape Canaveral, an astronaut on a spacewalk and a lunar module landing on the moon.
Marching band director Christopher Hoch designed the drill with Dublin Jerome High School Director of Bands Brian Stevens. Their design included an American rocket overtaking a Soviet rocket to the music of Gustav Holst's "Jupiter" and a space capsule landing safely on Earth to the theme from "Apollo 13."
TLIGuy Member
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posted 10-06-2019 09:58 AM
Always impressive stuff from OSU!!
perineau Member
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posted 10-06-2019 10:23 AM
Now, that was cool!!! Had goose bumps watching! Thanks for posting!
Grounded! Member
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posted 10-06-2019 12:01 PM
Wow! Two of my favorite things, the space program and marching bands. Thanks for posting.
Robert Pearlman Editor
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posted 10-27-2019 11:55 AM
Purdue University's marching band included a tribute to the school's astronaut alumni during the halftime of the Homecoming game on Oct. 12, 2019:
The same day, the Notre Dame Marching Band paid tribute to the moon landing:
On Oct. 26, Michigan State's marching band performed "We Choose to Go," including a special message from aboard the International Space Station:
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 53178 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
TBDBITL travels to space in a NASA-dedicated halftime performance
Marching band gives pregame thanks to longtime arranger Jim Swearingen
As tribute to NASA and Ohio’s own NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, The Ohio State University Marching Band traveled to outer space during halftime of the Buckeyes’ game against Marshall University.
During pregame, the band spelled out “Thank You” while playing “Beautiful Ohio Fanfare” for longtime arranger and Ohio State alum Jim Swearingen, who wrote this weekend’s halftime show. Swearingen is an acclaimed composer and educator who has been arranging for the marching band for nearly 50 years.
TBDBITL ["The Best Damn Band in the Land"] also played “Fly Me to the Moon,” “Gonna Fly Now,” “Main Theme from Apollo 13,” “Starman,” “To Tame the Perilous Skies” and “I Wanna Go Back” while creating formations of telescopes, spaceships, astronauts and the NASA logo.
Saturday’s i-dotter was Andrew Boden, an industrial and systems engineering major from St. Louis, Missouri.
posted 10-06-2019 09:01 AM
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