Because on todays program where delighted to have dr damian fan whos the director of the taipei municipal gym Floor High School marching band to talk about marching band development in taiwan of ten. Hello everyone myost name staying at that time Johnny Country and the band director of the regional High School Marching band and it is my pleasure to come to this Program Beyond its a pleasant and happy pm programme. Telus a little bit about yourself. Well um crazy guy in a town an assistant professor at National Taiwan university. I teach in the translation and interpretation bracket program. So thats my day job but during weekends i would become a band director. So thats my second hat and my son had used a conference and took her soul that someone i usually do before i started teaching in school or it with damien would have to pee on the program today because you are the director of the typical High School Marching band thats why much i mean how do you all with that in High School Marching band in first place. I was a member of the marching band when i was in fact in high School Owners sold. I even started to develop an interest in marching band or just simply play music because i dont the piano when i was small but i stop putting it on after inking middle school which is usually the case for a lot of talented students because of the academic load exactly okay um but i was very fortunate to get into gene pool of high school and i found that there was actually a band there and i really wanted to join in so that i actually beat cop became the beginning of my pantry and on our bed instead it says let me answer was the key to the march that i was i was a clarinet player who doesnt keep a ten x so you could cut out with after he joined the silken thought it was a difficult fall candle to equipment it is actually a little bit difficult because its good to very different kinds of instruments sauce but i think my foundation in the Capital Health took a lot ok and my band director was an american the spaghetti braxton. He eventually returned to the United States so he asked me whether or not i would like to take up his back on and become band director in charge of teaching marching band and i agreed because i thought that would be very interesting experience so that was back in two thousand won and it has been thirteen years since of being in this cause its clients it does lack because believe me ask you hope you find the experience is to be different or similar bill being a member of the pandan value in the band director when using windows only a band member to follow orders alone commands either from the bad effect on front on the drum majors or the toxins but as a band of activists much more to it because youre not going in charge of training the band musically or in terms of marching. You are also responsible if designing the show. Thats the case here in taiwan so i have to come up with a program for the teenagers and teach them the program so that they are well prepared before they can perform. I know you manage your time effectively or else you would not be able to wear all these different acts. But its real shift back onto the marching band itself. Tell the audience of all the color of view its one of the needle necessary elements Cool Conditions for much of that put sample. So what kinds of instruments to be part of the marching band. No more a summit the quality stadium before being abandoned. I think there are three prerequisites to formulate a marching band the first one is people the second one is fun being married and the third one is space. The ones most difficult moment typical well i would say currently the most difficult one to me is people in my arm. Of course for him than to be able to perform you need on a certain number of members in advance to write so that you can feel the necessary instrumentation because usually in a marching band we are separated into different groups on the first moving between instruments which includes the brass and woodwind grasping for example pope its core and strong bones that comes into books with wings would include foods next cell phones the second section with people took the precaution and there are two parts to the percussion one is the marching percussion which actually marches on the field the snare drums the tender drums bass drops and the second part on consists of insolence that cannot be played while you are welcome at the march action cannot be carried onto the field. For example in the reading bug dale was the xylophone sort in pain. Its not possible to play these instruments while marching in the third section is what we called the visual ensemble for us in peak with the color guard and they are responsible on. Um i mean visual elements of the show still denies that dance or they can do it different kinds of props such as france or rifles. So i think own band members are of course critical tuesday of formulation of the band and i would say that he would need approximately about thirty six to forty on people in between sections so that the bank can sound good and about fifteen people in the precautions that section because they need to be responsible of establishing the rhythmic pulse of music and of course for the color guard of one more the more the merrier unit is yes because we can add different kinds of elements to the shoulder was the optimal number for the optimal number well i would say as long as theyd and harmoniously into the show on numbers not be a problem. I nodded weekend depending on the show he can have as few as of around six people who probably be can also have as much as twenty people for a band that only has about sixty people in the act itself. So in reading depends on the design of the show already and there you have been the note to the band director for Kimball High School since two thousand and one. It is sold since then youve taken the van to a number of Different International competitions. And oh what the Key International competitions in tears hoping this will enhance his reputation. Also licking his tunes the band members being exposed to interNational Competition. How did we know the experience come about the general High School Marching band travels overseas almost every summer sitting back the year ryan new dating back as probably um to nineteen ninety two or something. And i think that has become a tradition for that and that number is sometimes would join the bag simply because they want to have that attitude from overseas. I was in that house nowadays. You know the Younger Generation have much more opportunities to travel abroad so that is not really that much of an enticement anymore. Ok well i think its still a great experience. Think back to god and in the band has really been able to showcase more advertising the will of the school on a round the world so that they know all there is up. I didnt do a country called time on somewhere in east asia and there is a school that has a pretty good marching band so that has been pretty hopeful for a spreading the words for the school. Ok the end of this couple will be the boss of the National Competition staging of the band has been to since he took over in two thousand the mall though critically to two thousand thirteen. The old World Championships. That tells a whole new look good about that and critically look at the mill that and the representative. The old panda from taiwan. Apparently it was made up more than two students functional high school. The love of issues from new Elementary Schools that meet all the schoolwork that why the idea of having meal but you dont love marching band made of students come to for tapestries and oh so was it difficult to accommodate students from other schools to be a part of this chain wal mart you. The trader to motown kinship for marching show bounce was held in chiba japan nikkei in japan and some of our audience plano has a very strong tradition in that they are very very good so we thought that the composition would be very fierce. In order to become competitive sometimes our own the bigger the number the more effective. The show with the handgun that this has something to do with the courts downfall of participation in Extracurricular Activities so that has been suffering from a lack of sufficient people so in order to become competitive and we thought that we might well come on that one verse from other school was okay um actually this was not the first year that we invite its band members from other school was on in the past we have also done this and it seems that we have built a reputation for him for this kind of invitation so. Actually there wasnt a lot of difficulties in inviting them they a lot of people were very eager to go into saturdays hike and it was the sole popular that for example even the color guard section how to conduct an auditioned in order to screen on people and the like of us headed his side the midday meal in the to hold difficult was it for us to connect it to try to motivate and prepares students from different schools to be a part of this competition that the International Level thats not easy. Telescopes own. Four members of the two high school band. They dont really need that much motivation because there are very motivated for the other participants and um i think they are also motivated but the biggest challenge especially at the very beginning is for them to know in no way that we rehearse and they also have to understand that the standard of quality that we are pursuing. So sometimes its just beyond the imagination and they need some time to adapt to the new band called to ok the end of the whole process. Is it really helps you know the students the actual heist was close to spot other schools to blend in. Was that the process that builds when you note to think it was successful. I think it was to some extent the windows out. End of the show you do have to work very closely together you have to really trust each other whats your name what is important that we need to take the first break on the program today would be right back. I knew the evening. Ghazi. Eye welcome back to the second statement to police probe and you know that i wanna look up the coast were equal what well continue our conversation without this meal came in and whos the director of the taipei municipal chandler High School Marching band. And daniel was talking about the interNational Competition in critically ill two thousand thirteen. The World Championships and thomas who will bid up of the background that led to defame day you have cake for the two thousand thirteen yo competition held championships which were done deliberately between equality and fraternity while the two pink icing. The show that we prepared for the twenty ten World Championships is entitled as he said the libertine equality and fraternity that is actually a theme that on this very familiar to people around the world and so on the reason that we chose this title was because we played music selections from the musical in his ababa okay im done. Of course this masterpiece doesnt really need a lot of explanations. Its pretty devoted the last pages into the train to france on aspects of humanity. By examining the french history back to the nineteenth century. I think on these themes of gold. My feeling some what hes seeing them on for the modern audience but it is near universal into are actually a lot of things to ponder. Reading is also a very tiny. On any description or a tiny reflection upon the socio political situation in taiwan. Another reason is that because on last year on the movie. Lynn is a cobbler was directing was was released which was directed by mr tom hooper and it was very successful so we thought that we might just write that i need to add on mini engage the audience by producing this Show Movement and the interests of the music that you pay only the meal was a rock and what were some of the deal reactions from students rather than denvers kitty angel into the militant get songs that you pick one or will they simply were not familiar with it. Um i mean is the musical was on was first debuted in nineteen eighty six it was a really long time ago and not that much stood up not that many students were very familiar with the musical but i dont think it is the music is right. But what they saw the movie they watched the movie and actually im done i think the music with analogies themselves are getting a taxi so i let the students get attached to the music once they start practicing. Its okay and i like it said that there really is part of program you have been beating teaching High School Marching band teacher National Competition almost every year since two thousand with no two thousand and one. No twenty two overs and though what were some of the more memorable experiences at the interNational Competition for example to causing eleven the guy swinging malaysian bank. Ok two thousand called you were in Calgary Canada and co were some of these experiences compare with last years two thousand thirteen. The moral ten chicks. I think the first thing that would come to mind but he didnt know it is the different locations actually post different challenges than the cause of for some human agents of the top of its Tropical Weather and so we really had a very hard time requesting before the championships will pay for the competition because it brings eighty one and done probably in malaysia be to not have the tradition of free persons endorsed cook so we all had to be arsed outdoors but it was down pouring and was really difficult for us to really get well prepared to give the afternoon showers and thats exactly it to come whereas in canada and probably very cool temperature and dumb sometimes. These students want everyone of us fell back and was very difficult to adapt to the humidity this since the committee to visit an older and probably a six week ive had a Higher Elevation so close on four as the physical act of the success of march and that you really need to breathe very hard and sometimes the height of the nation its actually quite difficult system is cut to adopt a duck in the first few dates on it and put the two thousand eleven region competition. He picked the theme of the local music from sound of music. And for two thousand twelve at the calgary competition. Uk deal of romantic tension and white films known pretty clear you know sets of music would be of good reasons the twenty two of Decision Making process. Theres really not that much mystery behind the series and we are in africa marching band. We usually use off the shelf commercial commercially released music that we can buy it from the music stores up and believe it or not there really isnt that many good arrangements for marching band so we actually have a very good that it down the very limited pool of resource but i think own because the marching band show was very short about ten minutes you may need to patch the audiences and the judges attention. Therefore sometimes we hope to select music that often. Really it attracts attention at the very first moment so what are the jackets or b movie soundtracks or Classical Music or rock and roll exactly they can all be very very fine tunes for marching band show calm and in addition um i think because it takes several several months to prepare a show set in the music has to really be interesting enough and deep enough so that the students can explore the musee i developed an interest in it so i think of and usually a very good selection this class can use it because it stands the test of time. Of course and general High School Marching band has known very well in the competitions matches in two thousand and eleven in malaysia two thousand halting canada and the two thousand thirteen the World Championships bill for the first to be you know got gold honors and for two thousand thirty you can use their plates that they let me ask you what were some of the criteria for detectives to make here you know that no decision. I mean is it because companies indicate what the routine for some of the yale formation changes what were some of the cars reached. What the first of all. Marching band show house to the boat designed and well designed. And by meaning by definition is that the music has to be appropriate. You can engage the audience and bring them on an emotional roller coaster ride too so that in a ten minute show there are places where you excited and go places where you seem dumb. There are places where you move them album and this kind of music emotion has to be translated or incomplete it by the visual presentation which extends the choreography of the color guard and also the formations that we produce. I think the judges awarded us when he was recognition because the code total package was designed pretty well. In addition execution is also the importance of my execution i mean that the band members what people to know when to play with but seldom really interpret the music in the style that it was supposed to be calm and the color guard members they know they have good technique so that they dont drop the rifles of the top of the flags lined the formations were crisp and clear and timely and well everything was coherent and together i think these are all important book important criteria for the judges to consider yet can you believe me and she knew the band director. What did you get your inspiration. Put the signing of a t o d hahha but Coaching Staff that supports you and do you know how to come up with that the summing up the content in the show. Palm was strictly speaking i dont have the idea that coats your