JSU Marching Southerners

MARCHING SOUTHERNERS SHOW HISTORY

Click the year/title of each show to view a video of the performance.

2024 – JOY

  • Opener: Vitae Aeternum (Eternal Life)
  • Ballerina Tune: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher/Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
  • Ballad: You Will Be Found
  • Closer: Finale from James Barnes’ Third Symphony/Finale from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

 

2023 – Reflection

  • Intro: Reflection
  • Opener: Firebird/Fly to Paradise
  • Ballerina Tune: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
  • Ballad: I’ll Fly Away/Over the Rainbow
  • Closer: Malagueña/Reflection

 

2022 – One Giant Leap

  • Intro: Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • Opener: Interstellar Suite
  • Ballerina Tune: Dancing in the Moonlight
  • Ballad: Jupiter
  • Closer: Enterprising Young Men/Go the Distance

 

2021 – Fate of the Gods

  • Intro/Opener: The Battle
  • Ballerina Tune: Venus
  • Ballad: Watermark
  • Closer: Clocktower Parade

 

2020 – United We Stand

  • Joint performance of the Opener: “United We Stand” with the Florida State University Marching Chiefs on September 11th, 2021 in tribute of the 20th Anniversary of 9/11

2019 – Earth, Wind, and Fire

  • Intro: Earth for Flute and Piano
  • Opener: Windsprints
  • Ballerina Tune: September
  • Ballad: Bridge Over Troubled Water
  • Closer: Day of Wrath/Metropolis 1927

 

2018 – When I Think of Home

  • Intro: From Now On (from The Greatest Showman)
  • Opener: Coming Home
  • Ballerina Tune: All That Jazz
  • Ballad: Largo (from the New World Symphony)
  • Closer: Malagueña

 

2017 – Angels Among Us

  • Intro: Fly to Paradise
  • Opener: Resplendent Glory
  • Ballerina Tune: Are You Ready for a Miracle
  • Ballad: Angel
  • Closer: JoyRIDE

 

2016 – Heroes: Lost and Fallen

  • Opener: Independence Day 
  • Ballerina Tune: Swing, Swing, Swing (from 1941)
  • Ballad: Honor (from the Pacific)
  • Closer: Heroes Finale (Battle Hymn of the Republic)

 

2015 – Celebration

  • Opener: Festive Overture, William Tell Overture
  • Ballerina Tune: The Best is Yet to Come
  • Ballad: Tribute
  • Closer: New World Symphony/1812 Overture

 

2014 – Salvation Is Created

  • Opener: Carmina Burana/Dies Irae 
  • Ballerina Tune: I’m Gonna Live Until I Die
  • Ballad: Death and Transfiguration/Elsa’s Procession
  • Closer: Gloria (Mvt. III)

 

2013 – One More Time

  • Opener: One More Time Chuck Corea
  • Ballerina Tune: Habanera (from Carmen)
  • Ballad: Spirit of the Bull
  • Closer: Malaga/Malagueña

 

2012 – I’ll Fly Away

  • Intro: Enterprising Young Men
  • Opener: Flight (Enter the Galaxies)
  • Ballerina Tune: Moondance/Fly Me to the Moon
  • Ballad: I’ll Fly Away/Over the Rainbow
  • Closer: Defying Gravity

 

2011 – Fire and Ice

  • Opener: The Firebird
  • Ballerina Tune: Fever
  • Ballad: Ice Castles
  • Closer: Greensleeves

 

2010 – Sea to Shining Sea

  • Opener: Rocky Point Holiday
  • Ballerina Tune: Ol’ Man River 
  • Ballad: Shenandoah
  • Closer: Overture to Candide

 

2009 – Of Thee I Sing : Part 1 : Part 2

  • Opener: Esprit de Corps 
  • Ballerina Tune: Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
  • Ballad: Requiem for a Soldier (Band of Brothers Theme)/You Raise Me Up
  • Closer: America the Beautiful

 

2008 – From Russia With Love

  • Opener: Russian Sailor’s Dance
  • Ballerina Tune: Trepak (Nutcracker Suite)
  • Ballad: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
  • Closer: Symphony No. 5/Great Gate of Kiev (from Pictures at an Exhibition)

 

2007 – Higher, Faster, Louder : Part 1 : Part 2

  • Opener: A Mis Abuelos
  • Ballerina Tune: Sway
  • Ballad: Gabriel’s Oboe
  • Closer: El Toro Caliente

 

2006 – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

  • Opener: El Camino Real
  • Ballerina Tune: Too Darn Hot 
  • Ballad: Yesterday
  • Closer: Appalachian Spring

 

2005 – Muy Caliente

  • Opener: Firedance
  • Ballerina Tune: Fever
  • Ballad: Fire of Eternal Glory
  • Closer: New World Symphony

 

2004 – Remembrance 

  • Opener: Southerner’s Hits (arr. Fifer) 
  • Ballerina Tune: Bottle Dance
  • Ballad: Time to Say Goodbye
  • Closer: Remembrance

 

2003 – A Night At The Opera

  • Intro: Phantom of the Opera
  • Opener: Bohemian Rhapsody
  • Ballad: Nessun Dorma
  • Closer: Pagliacci

 

2002 – A Southerner’s Spanish Fantasy

  • Intro: Pictures of Spain 
  • Opener: Carmen
  • Closer: Malagueña

 

2001 – A Southerner’s Odyssey: Space, Sea, and Sand

  • Intro: Also Sprach Zarathustra
  • Opener: Selections from The Planets 
  • Ballerina Tune: Land of Make Believe
  • Ballad: Watermark
  • Closer: Danse Bacchanale (from Samson and Delilah)

 

2000 – A Night in Birdland

  • Opener: Birdland
  • Ballerina Tune: Night in Tunisia/Harlem Nocturne
  • Closer: Strawberry Soup

 

1999 – Dance Movements

  • Opener: Russian Christmas Music
  • Ballerina Tune: Dance Movements/Bottle Dance
  • Ballad: Vespers
  • Closer: 10th Symphony, Mvt. 2 (Shostakovich)

 

1998

  • Opener: Firebird
  • Ballerina Tune: Big Noise from Winnetka
  • Ballad: Nessun Dorma
  • Closer: Malaga

 

1997

  • Opener: A Mis Abuelos/Barcelona  
  • Ballerina Tune: Gamecock Saturday Night
  • Ballad: Make Our Garden Grow
  • Closer: One More Time

 

1996

  • Opener: Symphony for Brass and Percussion 
  • Ballerina Tune: Fly Me to the Moon
  • Closer: Spanish Fantasy

 

1995

  • Opener: Carmina Burana
  • Ballerina Tune: Lulu’s Back in Town
  • Ballad: Simple Song at Sunrise
  • Closer: Malagueña

 

1994

  • First Opener: Charade/Touch of Evil 
  • Second Opener: Festive Overture 
  • Ballerina Tune: Satin Doll
  • Percussion Feature: Freeda 
  • Concert Tune: Firedance
  • First Closer: Moon River
  • Second Closer: Circle of Life
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