Legends Drum and Bugle Corps


The Legends Drum & Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Legends performs in Drum Corps International competitions.

History

What is now the Legends Drum and Bugle Corps had its beginnings in Portage, Michigan in 2001 as an indoor winter brass and percussion ensemble at Portage Central High School.
The unit added a color guard in 2006 and performed in exhibition at several DCI shows that summer and the next.
Legends entered DCI competition in 2008, making semifinals and placing 15th of 23 corps at the DCI Open Class Championships at Michigan City, Indiana.
The corps gained the Open Class Finals in 2009, placing 10th and earning awards for Most Improved Corps, Most Outstanding Drum Major, and Open Class Director of the Year.
The corps has since remained as an Open Class finalist and has won additional awards as Most Improved Corps and for Most Outstanding Drum Major.
In 2015, Legends placed 5th at the DCI Open Class Championships and 25th overall at the DCI World Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, and earning their first semifinals spot in their 10th Anniversary season. The corps was again named the Most Improved Open Class corps, and corps director Ibe Sodawalla received the 2015 Dr. David Kampschroer Leadership Award as Open Class Director of the Year.
2016 was the year the corps broke top 3 in DCI Open Class Championships and earned their highest score to date. Again, Legends made it to semifinals, this year earning 24th place. Noah Koch of Legends also won the Jim Jones Leadership Award for DCI Open Class Drum Major of the Year.

Sponsorship

Legends Drum & Bugle Corps is sponsored by the Legends Performing Arts Association, a registered non-profit 501 musical organization which has a Board of Directors, director, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission. The corps director is Ibe Sodawalla. The organization continues to support the original Portage Central High School Indoor Performance Ensemble. It also sponsored Legends Percussion, an indoor percussion ensemble that competes in Winter Guard International. Legends Percussion was inactive for the 2017 Winter Guard International season.

Show Summary (2006-2020)

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
2006Ballet Sacra by David Holsinger / Malaguena by Ernesto LecuonaDid not attend
2007In PermoveoBallet Sacra by David HolsingerDid not attend
2008Evolutional ProcuratioNew Beginnings by Peter Boyer82.00015th Open Class
2009IncrementumDaphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel81.95010th Open Class
2010RuinsVesuvius by Frank Ticheli / Eruption by Keith Emerson /
Pines of Rome & Fountains of Rome by Ottorino Respighi /
Unstoppable by Helmut and Franz Vonlichten / Prelude - Main Title by Miklós Rózsa		86.2008th Open Class
2011SkyscapesCloudburst by Eric Whitacre / You Are by Steve Reich / Pagodes by Claude Debussy /
Gold Rush by Jacob ter Veldhuis / Aurora Awakes by John Mackey		82.300
60.650		9th Open Class
34th World Class
2012The Edmund FitzgeraldFour Sea Interludes by Benjamin Britten / The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot /
Coming Home From The Sea & Bishop's Countdown by James Horner		83.950
63.400		8th Open Class
30th World Class
2013IchabodMain Titles by Danny Elfman /
The Vote by James Newton Howard / Chester Overture by William Schuman /
Shepherd's Hey by Percy Grainger / The Chase by Danny Elfman		85.700
68.400		8th Open Class
29th World Class
2014La CathédraleThe Sunken Cathedral by Claude Debussy / Stained Glass by David Gillingham /
Lux Aurumque by Eric Whitacre / Gloria, Mvt. 3 by John Rutter		73.675
71.000		7th Open Class
29th World Class
2015The ClimbAscent by Key Poulan, Paul Rennick, and Sandra Rennick / The Mountain by Marc Shaiman /
Avalanche by James Newton Howard / The Climb by Jon Mabe and Jessi Alexander		75.125
70.250		5th Open Class
25th World Class
2016The GridThe Grid by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter /
Main Title from Paycheck by John Powell / Virus Attack by Amin Bhatia /
Adagio for Tron by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter /
NO one To kNOW one by Andy Akiho / Mona Lisa Overdrive by Don Davis and Juno Reactor		76.500
73.150		3rd Open Class
24th World Class
2017The SignalDefine Dancing by Thomas Newman and Peter Gabriel /
Mothership by Mason Bates / Satellite by James Pluth /
The Sound of Silence by Paul Simon / Hyperjump by Thomas Newman /
Stargate Overture by David Arnold		77.250
76.225		3rd Open Class
22nd World Class
2018Along Came a SpiderThe Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky / Itsy Bitsy Spider /
Symphony #8, Mvt. 3 by Dmitri Shostakovich / Aha! by Imogen Heap /
Spiderman Theme by Paul Francis Webster and Robert "Bob" Harris
Water Night by Eric Whitacre / Metropolis Symphony, Mvt. 1 by Michael Daugherty		 76.3504th Open Class
26th World Class
2019Song of the SirenLa Mer by Claude Debussy / Pure Imagination by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley /
Aquarium by Camille Saint-Saëns /
Genie in a Bottle by David Frank, Steve Kipner, and Pamela Sheyne /
Finale by Alan Silvestri / Symphony No.10 by Dmitri Shostakovich		79.400
78.400		2nd Open Class
21st World Class
2020Season cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic