Bands of America - Past Grand National Marching Band Champions

Past Grand National Marching Band Champions

• 2012 - Carmel High School - Carmel, Indiana

Show Title: What a Tangled Web We Weave
Musical Selections:
Original Music (Richard Saucedo)

• 2011 - Broken Arrow High School - Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Show Title: Destiny Leaves You No Choice
Musical Selections:
My Immortal by Evanescence
Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral by Richard Wagner

• 2010 - Avon High School - Avon, Indiana

Show Title: Iconoclash
Musical Selections:
Magnum Opus ("Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin and "Symphony No. 5" by Beethoven)
Everybody Hurts ("Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M. and "Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven)
Schadenfreude ("Symphony No. 9" by Beethoven and "Adagio for Strings" by Barber)

• 2009 - Avon High School - Avon, Indiana

Show Title: Comm-UNIFORM-ity
Musical Selections:
"Symphony No.1" by Samuel Barber
"Symphony No.2" by Samuel Barber

• 2008 - Avon High School - Avon, Indiana

Show Title: Mass-IV-e
Musical Selections:
Critical Mass ("La Fiesta Mexicana" by H. Owen Reed and "Symphony of Psalms" by Igor Stravinsky)
Weapons of Mass Destruction ("Ave Maria" by J.S. Bach)
Mass Media ("God Said" by Leonard Bernstein)
Mass Exodus ("Organ Symphony Mvt. III" by Aaron Copland)

• 2007 - L.D. Bell High School - Hurst, Texas

Show Title: Transcendents
Musical Selections:
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Long, Long, Time Ago from Pan's Labyrinth by Javier Navarrete
Variations for Winds, Strings, and Percussion by Steve Reich
Lux Aurumque: Light of Gold by Eric Whitacre
The Engulfed Cathedral by Claude Debussy
Original Composition by Donald Hill and Bret Kuhn

• 2006 - Broken Arrow High School - Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

Show Title: Aqua
Musical Selections:
Harrison's Dream (Peter Graham)
Time to Say Goodbye (Andrea Bocelli)
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Benjamin Britten)
Original Music (Aaron Guidry)

• 2005 - Carmel High School - Carmel, Indiana

Show Title: Suspended Symbols
Musical Selections:
Original Music (Richard Saucedo)

• 2004 - Lawrence Central High School - Indianapolis, Indiana

Show Title: La Rosa
Musical Selections:
Desolation (Arturo Rodriguez)
Danzon (Arturo Marquez)
Spanish Fantasy, Part IV (Chick Corea)

• 2003 - Westfield High School - Houston, Texas

Show Title: Because We Are....
Musical Selections:
Oh Lois! from Metropolis Symphony (Michael Daugherty)
Dead Elvis (Michael Daugherty)
Lex from Metropolis Symphony (Michael Daugherty)
Water Night (Eric Whitacre)
Original Music (Mark Higginbotham)

• 2002 - Lassiter High School - Marietta, Georgia

Show Title: Liturgical Sketches
Musical Selections:
Ballet Exaltare (David Holsinger)
Requiem Aeternam (John Rutter)
Lassitare: The Old 100th Doxology

• 2001 - Lawrence Central High School - Indianapolis, Indiana

Show Title: Metamorphosis: Ancient Myth to a Modern Vision
Musical Selections:
The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms (Michael Kamen)

• 2000 - Marian Catholic High School - Chicago Heights, Illinois

Show Title: The Tragic Medusa
Musical Selections:
Gorgon (Christoper Rouse)
Flute Concerto (Christpoher Rouse)
Phantasmata (Christoper Rouse)

• 1999 - Plymouth-Canton Educational Park - Canton, Michigan

Show Title: Thoughtcrime, Music for an Orwellian Era
Musical Selections:
Circuits (Cindy McTee)
Lex from Metropolis Symphony (Michael Daugherty)
Red Cape Tango from Metropolis Symphony (Michael Daugherty)

• 1998 - Lassiter High School - Marietta, Georgia

Show Title: The Wind and the Lion
Musical Selections:
Music from The Wind and the Lion (Jerry Goldsmith)

• 1997 - Marian Catholic High School - Chicago Heights, Illinois

Show Title: Portraits of the Orient
Musical Selections:
Music from 'Heaven and Earth' by Kitaro
"Three Japanese Dances Mvt 1: Dance of Pennons" by Bernard Rogers
Music from 'Joy Luck Club' by Rachel Portman
"Three Japanese Dances Mvt 3: Dance of Swords" by Bernard Rogers

• 1996 - Lake Park High School - Roselle, Illinois

Show Title: Queen of Spades
Musical Selections:
Vesti La Guibba (Ruggiero Leoncavallo)
Overture to Pique Dame (Franz von Suppé)
La Danza
Nessun Dorma! (Giacomo Puccini)

• 1995 - Center Grove High School - Greenwood, Indiana

Show Title: A Journey into the Adventure Zone: Music of Stephen Melillo

• 1994 - Marian Catholic High School - Chicago Heights, Illinois

Show Title: Symphonic Music from South America
Musical Selections:
"La Fiesta Mexicana" by H. Owen Reed
"Sinfonia India" by Carlos Chavez
"Pampeana No. 3 Mvt 2: 'Imperpetuosomente' by Alberto Ginastera

• 1993 - Spring High School - Spring, Texas

Show Title: The Music of Paul Hindemith
Musical Selections:
Symphony in Bb (Paul Hindemith)
Symphonic Metamorphosis (Paul Hindemith)

• 1992 - Centerville High School - Centerville, Ohio

Show Title: Tower Of Power
Musical Selections:
So Very Hard To Go (Kupka & Castillo)
Down to The Nightclub (Kupka, Castillo & Garibaldi)
You’re Still A Young Man (Kupka & Castillo)
What Is Hip? (Kupka, Castillo & Garibaldi)

• 1991 - Plymouth-Canton Educational Park - Canton, Michigan

Show Title: Sunday in the Park with George

• 1990 - Plymouth-Canton Educational Park - Canton, Michigan

Show Title: Music of Stephen Sondheim

• 1989 - Marian Catholic High School - Chicago Heights, Illinois
• 1988 - Marian Catholic High School - Chicago Heights, Illinois
• 1987 - Marian Catholic High School - Chicago Heights, Illinois
• 1986 - Rocky Mount Senior High School - Rocky Mount, North Carolina
• 1985 - Marian Catholic High School - Chicago Heights, Illinois
• 1984 - Rocky Mount Senior High School - Rocky Mount, North Carolina
• 1983 - Rocky Mount Senior High School - Rocky Mount, North Carolina
• 1982 - Norwin High School - North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
• 1981 - Chesterton High School - Chesterton, Indiana
• 1980 - J. M. Tate High School - Pensacola, Florida