Les Stentors Drum and Bugle Corps
Les Stentors Drum and Bugle Corps is an Open Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps. Based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Les Stentors is currently the only active Canadian corps in Drum Corps International (DCI) competition.[1]
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| Location | Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |
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| Division | Open |
| Founded | 1987 |
| Director | Gabriel Francoeur |
| Uniform | Blue jacket w/white front panel, black & white trim, silver buttons, white aiguillette Blue gauntlets w/black & white trim Black pants Black shoes Black shako w'silver chains & badge & white plume |
| Website | www |
History
In 1987, the Academie Musicale Drum and Bugle Corps of Sherbrooke started the Cadets de l’Académie.[5] Following their first season, the parents of the cadet corps broke away, changing the name of the young parade corps to La Relève Musicale. In 1993, reacting to the suggestion that the name indicated the corps remained associated with Academie Musicale, the corps changed its name to Les Stentors.[6]
The corps made the transition to a field competition corps in 1996, competing in the Fédération des Associations Musicales du Québec (FAM-Q) drum corps circuit.
The corps made its debut at the DCI World Championships at Sun Prairie, Wisconsin in 1999, placing 11th of 12 corps in Division II. The corps returned to DCI in 2001 and has since attended DCI every year except 2006, when the corps was inactive for a year, and 2007, when the corps opted not to strain its financial resources by traveling to the West Coast when the championships were held in Pasadena, California.
The corps went inactive in 2006 due to insufficient membership, but DCI approved its return to competition in 2007.
In 2014, Gabriel Francoeur, corps manager since 1997 was honored as one of four people named as DCI Volunteers of the Year.[7]
Les Stentors has been the only active competitive junior drum and bugle corps in Quebec since 2003. The corps became a SoundSport team in 2018 but returned to DCI competition in 2019.
Sponsorship
Les Stentors is a non-profit youth organization with an Administrative Council, manager, and staff assigned to carry out the organization's mission. Gabriel Francoeur is the corps' president and general manager.[8]
Show Summary (1988–2020)
Source:[9]
Gold background indicates DCI Championship; pale blue background indicates DCI Open Class Finalist.
| Year | Theme | Repertoire | Score | DCI Placement |
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| 1988 | I Will by Lennon–McCartney / The Honeymoon Song by William Sansom and Mikis Theodorakis | Did not attend | ||
| 1989 | La Colegiala by Walter Leon Aguilar / Theme from Le Club des 100 Watts by Alain Couture | Did not attend | ||
| 1990 | Dragnet Theme (Danger Ahead and Dragnet March) by Miklós Rózsa and Walter Schumann / Theme from Le Club des 100 Watts by Alain Couture / Bandstand Boogie by Charles Albertine / Asterix (Unknown) | Did not attend | ||
| 1991 | Theme from Le Club des 100 Watts by Alain Couture / Carmen & March of the Toreadors (from Carmen) by Georges Bizet / Pot-Pourri Quebecois (Unknown) | Did not attend | ||
| 1992 | Glenn Miller Suite by Glenn Miller & others / C Jam Blues by Duke Ellington / It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills | Did not attend | ||
| 1993 | Robin Hood by Michael Kamen / Marche Polovstienne (from Prince Igor) by Alexander Borodin | Did not attend | ||
| 1994 | The Three Musketeers by Michael Kamen | Did not attend | ||
| 1995 | Music by Pat Metheny | Did not attend | ||
| 1996 | Jurassic Park by John Williams / Forrest Gump by Alan Silvestri / Afrique Noire (Unknown) / Apollo 13 by James Horner | Did not attend | ||
| 1997 | Interstellar Suite | Hostility, Distress Signal & The Ship (from Interstellar Suite) by Amin Bhatia | Did not attend | |
| 1998 | Lord of the Rings | Gandalf & Hobbits (from The Lord of the Rings Symphony) by Johan de Meij / On Broadway by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller | Did not attend | |
| 1999 | Overture to a New Age | Flashing Wind by Jan Van der Roost / Symphonic Overture by James Barnes / Overture to a New Age by Jan de Haan | 81.300 | 10th Div.II |
| 2000 | The Music of Indiana Jones | Selections from Indiana Jones by John Williams | Did not attend | |
| 2001 | Abram's Pursuit | Liturgical Dances, Abram's Pursuit, Ballet Sacra & To Tame the Perilous Skies All by David Holsinger | 69.700 | 18th Div.III |
| 2002 | Phantom of the Opera | Selections from the Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe | 67.400 | 18th Div.III |
| 2003 | Quidam | Repertoire unavailable | 69.850 | 15th Div.III |
| 2004 | Pilatus | Pilatus, The Mountain of Dragon by Steven Reineke | 63.400 | 14th Div.III |
| 2005 | Troy | Selections from Troy by James Horner | 70.575 | 11th Div.III |
| 2006 | Corps inactive | |||
| 2007 | Repertoire unavailable | Did not attend | ||
| 2008 | Sinbad | Repertoire unavailable | 68.275 | 22nd Open Class |
| 2009 | The Incredibles | Glory Days, Bob vs. The Omnidroid, Marital Rescue, Escaping Nomanisan, Road Trip & Saving Metroville All from The Incredibles by Michael Giacchino | 65.900 | 17th Open Class |
| 2010 | A New Day | Grace Kelly by Mika, Jodi Marr, John Merchant, Dan Warner / Comme au Premier Jour by André Gagnon / Rock et Belles Oreilles Medley by Rock et Belles Oreilles / Til the Day I Die & When I Rise by Charles Gregory / La Revolution by Christophe Mali | 72.500 | 14th Open Class |
| 2011 | Musique du Quebec | The Rendezvous by Claude Léveillé / Happiness Makes You the Eye by France D'Amours and François Léveillé / Piano Solo (Traditional) / The Ti-Rap Petang (Traditional) / What If You Could Love by Celine Dion / And It's Not Over by Stéphane Venne / Go Where You Go by Celine Dion | 72.100 51.750 | 13th Open Cl. 38th World Cl. |
| 2012 | The Sixties | Le Yaya by Joel Denis / Diliou Diliou St-Tropez by Jenny Rock / Wipe Out by Bob Berryhill, Pat Connolly, Jim Fuller, and Ron Wilson (The Surfaris) / Manon Viens Danser le Ska by Donald Lautrec / Splish Splash by Bobby Darin, Murray The K Kaufman, and Jean Murray / Da Doo Run Run by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector / La Plus Belle Pour Aller Danser by Charles Aznavour and Georges Garvarentz / Agadou dou dou by Patrick Zabé / Avant de te dire Adieu by Gilles Girard et les Classels | 69.300 52.750 | 13th Open Class 34th World Class |
| 2013 | 25tentors - Stentors 25th Anniversary | Distress Signal (from Interstellar Suite) by Amin Bhatia / Gandalf (from Lord of the Rings) by Johan de Meij / The Ti-Rap Petang (Traditional) / The Incredibles by Michael Giacchino / Til the Day I Die by Charles Gregory / Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, and Richard Stilgoe / Comme au Premier Jour by André Gagnon / Hobbits (from The Lord of the Rings) by Johan de Meij / Overture to a New Age by Jan de Haan | 76.650 58.250 | 11th Open Class 34th World Class |
| 2014 | Magical Illusion | Now You See Me, Now You Don't (from Now You See Me) by Brian Tyler | 61.275 57.425 | 12th Open Class 34th World Class |
| 2015 | Tale of the Tales | Star Trek by Michael Giacchino / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & Alice in Wonderland by Danny Elfman / Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofiev | 60.250 52.975 | 12th Open Class 37th World Class |
| 2016 | Énigma | Back to the Future by Alan Silvestri /Young Sherlock Holmes by Bruce Broughton Overture to a New Age by Jan de Haan | 55.325 53.399 | 16th Open Class 38th World Class |
| 2017 | Red String of Fate | Can't Help Falling in Love by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore. and George David Weiss / Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland / Always on My Mind by Johnny Christopher, Mark James, and Wayne Carson | 55.200 54.725 | 16th Open Class 39th World Class |
| 2018 | Soundsport team | |||
| 2019 | Passion in Red | Águas de Março by Antônio Carlos Jobim / Symphonic Overture by Philip Sparke Danzón No. 2 by Arturo Márquez / Capricho Árabe by Francisco Tárrega / Libertango by Astor Piazzolla | 62.650 63.150 | 13th Open Class 34th World Class |
| 2020 | Season cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic |
References
- "Corps". Drum Corps International. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- Les STENTORS de Sherbrooke - Historique
- "Les Stentors". DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- Drum Corps International :: Marching Music's Major League™
- Messier, Denis (July 30, 1999). "Les Stentors visent haut". La Tribune. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
- Patton, Bruce (August 17, 2010). "Drum and Bugle Homecoming: Sherbrooke's Stentors return from long tour". The Record. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
- Still, Michael (June 4, 2014). "2014 DCI Volunteers of the Year". Retrieved February 2, 2020.
- "Staff". Stentors de Sherbrooke Corps de Tambours et Clairons. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- "Les Stentors". DCX: The Drum Corps Xperience. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
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