The Vassar Devils - BOSS 2016 Winning Set

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The Devils performing our winning set at BOSS [Boston Sings] on April 8th, 2016. We had an amazing weekend performing at BOSS, and felt so honored to be awarded Best Arrangement for “Blood I Bled” (Matt Goldstein and Hannah Tobias), Best Spoken Word (Michaela Coplen), Most Nuanced Performance (Hannah Tobias), and First Place!!!

The BOSS prompt this year was to create a set based on a classic grade-school subject, so we chose the subject of history and crafted a set about modern warfare and those it affects. The music and words of this set are incredibly important to us, and we hope you that they move you as they have moved us.

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“Privacy"
opb. Brayton Bowman
Arrangement: Matt Goldstein
Solo: Matt Goldstein
Vocal Percussion: Jimmy Pavlick

“Blood I Bled"
opb. The Staves
Arrangement: Matt Goldstein
Solo: Hannah Tobias
Vocal Percussion: Jimmy Pavlick

“Alive"
opb. Sia
Arrangement: Matt Goldstein & Hannah Tobias
Solo: Dani Dones
Vocal Percussion: Jimmy Pavlick

Choreography by: Hannah Tobias
Spoken Word Written and Performed by: Michaela Coplen

For information about purchasing any of these arrangements or having arrangements written for your group, contact [email protected]

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Audio: Dave Longo for The Vocal Company
Video: Danny Olefsky for The Vocal Company

Thank you SO MUCH to our friends at The Vocal Company for putting together this incredible video! We feel so lucky to get to put our music in your hands!

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History counts its skeletons in round numbers
A thousand and three becomes a thousand
As if the three never existed
A trio left to sing their own lament
Left to sing with earth caught in their mouths

History draws its war accounts in black and white and red
And history only counts the dead

It forgets the ones who live
The ones who see in the mirror what they struggle to forgive
The ones who hide in solitude the fact that pieces of them didn’t make it back
The ones who ran, or hid, or fled, and died within themselves instead

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At night the soldier wonders what she’s fighting for
Is this a just war, or just another war?
It’s never just a war anymore

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The most dangerous part of modern warfare is that it makes itself invisible
That we can forget, because from here it feels like peace
Since it’s not our blood, not our city streets

My country, we all need to stand at attention
Remember that war is a human invention
It’s ours to unmake

Michaela Coplen

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