A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by David Harding
A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: David Harding (---.hsd1.il.comcast.net)
Date: October 10, 2011 12:56AM
The Cornell Chronicle announces that the Cornell bands will get a dedicated 6400 square foot, three story building "behind the Schoellkopf Crescent." Groundbreaking will be in 2012, "[T]he design phase is ongoing." Does anyone know more than the story says, such as where behind the crescent? (Google Maps areial of the area)
Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: kingpin248 (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: October 10, 2011 01:06AM
At the luncheon to kick off the fundraising campaign during Homecoming, band alumni were told that it would be just to the north-northeast of the Schoellkopf Garage, where the trucks and equipment can be seen in that map. There was even a "Future Home of the Big Red Bands" banner on the fence during the tailgate.
Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: billhoward (---.syrcny.east.verizon.net)
Date: October 10, 2011 09:52AM
Not that Cornell doesn't need a place to park trucks, but that's a very nice piece of land there, something you might not even notice in your four years at Cornell. The truck / maintenance garage seems kind of ramshackle; too bad Cornell can't spruce that up, too. I wasn't sure if the garage was being replaced to make way for the band facility or they're sited next to each other.
Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.airproducts.com)
Date: October 10, 2011 12:07PM
Pardon my naievete, but bands?
There's more than one?
There's more than one?
Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: imafrshmn (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: October 10, 2011 12:13PM
Jeff Hopkins '82
Pardon my naievete, but bands?
There's more than one?
it's what the band(s) like to call themselves to make a distinction between the pep and marching
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Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: Cop at Lynah (---.fcsnet.cornell.edu)
Date: October 10, 2011 03:50PM
The new building will be built on the slab that the current garage sits upon. The current slab is much larger than the garage itself. The ground floor of the new building will house the maintenance garage and the upper floor will house the band(s).
Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: nyc94 (---.cable.mindspring.com)
Date: October 10, 2011 03:55PM
David Harding
The Cornell Chronicle announces that the Cornell bands will get a dedicated 6400 square foot, three story building "behind the Schoellkopf Crescent." Groundbreaking will be in 2012, "[T]he design phase is ongoing." Does anyone know more than the story says, such as where behind the crescent? (Google Maps areial of the area)
Off topic but why does the heating plant look blurred out in the Google satellite image?
Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: RichH (167.225.107.---)
Date: October 10, 2011 03:56PM
imafrshmn
Jeff Hopkins '82
Pardon my naievete, but bands?
There's more than one?
it's what the band(s) like to call themselves to make a distinction between the pep and marching
Right. Not everyone in the Pep Band chooses to be in the Marching Band, and vice versa. Each organization has different priorities and offers different experiences when it comes to music selection, instrumentation, travel, frequency of events, athletics/coach communication, uniforms, and uh...the existence of marching. They also have their own set of member-elected student management & conductors.
Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.airproducts.com)
Date: October 10, 2011 04:30PM
RichH
imafrshmn
Jeff Hopkins '82
Pardon my naievete, but bands?
There's more than one?
it's what the band(s) like to call themselves to make a distinction between the pep and marching
Right. Not everyone in the Pep Band chooses to be in the Marching Band, and vice versa. Each organization has different priorities and offers different experiences when it comes to music selection, instrumentation, travel, frequency of events, athletics/coach communication, uniforms, and uh...the existence of marching. They also have their own set of member-elected student management & conductors.
I always thought the pep band was a subset of the marching band. Live and learn.
Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: RichH (167.225.107.---)
Date: October 10, 2011 04:52PM
Jeff Hopkins '82
RichH
imafrshmn
Jeff Hopkins '82
Pardon my naievete, but bands?
There's more than one?
it's what the band(s) like to call themselves to make a distinction between the pep and marching
Right. Not everyone in the Pep Band chooses to be in the Marching Band, and vice versa. Each organization has different priorities and offers different experiences when it comes to music selection, instrumentation, travel, frequency of events, athletics/coach communication, uniforms, and uh...the existence of marching. They also have their own set of member-elected student management & conductors.
I always thought the pep band was a subset of the marching band. Live and learn.
When you were in school, that was true. I believe the Pep Band became a more independent organization in the late 1980s.
Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: Trotsky (---.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
Date: October 10, 2011 04:53PM
Cornell's nuclear enrichment program is for peaceful purposes only.nyc94
Off topic but why does the heating plant look blurred out in the Google satellite image?
Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: Jim Hyla (---.twcny.res.rr.com)
Date: February 02, 2012 08:41PM
Sun article on Big Red Band Building.
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Re: A new home for the Big Red Bands
Posted by: ugarte (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: February 02, 2012 10:08PM
"Where is it?"Trotsky
Cornell's nuclear enrichment program is for peaceful purposes only.nyc94
Off topic but why does the heating plant look blurred out in the Google satellite image?
"I have no idea! There's this blurry... oh, there it is."
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