Ohio State marching band explores the space race at halftime
Buckeye fans know The Ohio State University Marching Band musicians have the right stuff, and they proved it with a tribute to the dawn of the space age at halftime during the football game against Michigan State University.
Titled "One Giant Leap," the halftime show mixed music from "The Right Stuff," "Apollo 13" and "First Man" with formations that included a rocket blasting off from Cape Canaveral, an astronaut on a spacewalk and a lunar module landing on the moon.
Marching band director Christopher Hoch designed the drill with Dublin Jerome High School Director of Bands Brian Stevens. Their design included an American rocket overtaking a Soviet rocket to the music of Gustav Holst's "Jupiter" and a space capsule landing safely on Earth to the theme from "Apollo 13."
TLIGuy Member
Posts: 205 From: Virginia Registered: Jul 2013
posted 10-06-2019 09:58 AM
Always impressive stuff from OSU!!
perineau Member
Posts: 218 From: FRANCE Registered: Jul 2007
posted 10-06-2019 10:23 AM
Now, that was cool!!! Had goose bumps watching! Thanks for posting!
Grounded! Member
Posts: 367 From: Bennington, Vermont, USA Registered: Feb 2011
posted 10-06-2019 12:01 PM
Wow! Two of my favorite things, the space program and marching bands. Thanks for posting.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 10-27-2019 11:55 AM
Purdue University's marching band included a tribute to the school's astronaut alumni during the halftime of the Homecoming game on Oct. 12, 2019:
The same day, the Notre Dame Marching Band paid tribute to the moon landing:
On Oct. 26, Michigan State's marching band performed "We Choose to Go," including a special message from aboard the International Space Station:
posted 10-06-2019 09:01 AM
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