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The 250-member UCLA Bruin Marching Band, known as ''The Solid Gold Sound'', represents the university at major athletic and extracurricular events. During the fall marching season, the band performs at the Rose Bowl for UCLA Bruin home football games. Pregame shows by the band aim to build crowd energy and enthusiasm with traditional UCLA songs like "Strike Up the Band for UCLA", "Sons of Westwood", and "The Mighty Bruins". Throughout the game, the band performs custom-arranged rock and pop songs, as well as the traditional fight songs and cheers of the university. The UCLA Varsity Band appears at basketball games and other athletic contests in Pauley Pavilion. The UCLA band program, which includes the Marching and Varsity Bands, the Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band, is in the School of the Arts and Architecture's Department of Music, part of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Band appearances at athletic events are funded primarily by student registration fees, a direct allocation from the Chancellor's Office and the Solid Gold Sound Club. The 1993 UCLA marching band was awarded the Sudler Trophy, an award bestowed on one university marching band every year. Described by a ''Los Angeles Times'' reporter as "the Heisman Trophy of the collegiate band world", the award does not represent the winner of any championship, but rather a band surrounded by great music and tradition that has become respected nationally. ==Instrumentation== All marching members and teaching assistants in the Bruin Marching Band are full-time UCLA students. For many years, the UCLA Bruin Marching Band had a featured female baton twirler, known as the "Golden Girl".〔Many other marching bands also have a "Golden Girl": notably, the Purdue University marching band and the Iowa Hawkeye marching band.〕 In 2006, instead of a twirler, the featured performer was a Band Juggler.〔Hayden, Nancy Oliver - (STHS, UCLA graduate directing life toward career in filmmaking ) Tahoe Daily Tribute, March 26, 2008. Chris Smith: While at UCLA, Smith used his juggling talent to become "The UCLA Juggler," which allowed him to perform internationally in Hong Kong and Beijing as well as at the men's football and basketball games.〕 In 2007, the band marched 24 sousaphones along with two alternates. Twenty-five new Yamaha sousaphones were purchased from a special allocation of funds from the Chancellor's Office. The UCLA Drumline utilizes drums made by TAMA, with Remo drum heads, as well as cymbals by Zildjian. The bassline typically marches six basses and uses Vic Firth Bass Mallets. The tenorline plays on 6 drum multi-toms using MT1A Tenor Mallets by Vic Firth. The snareline plays using Ralph Hardimon sticks by Vic Firth. Note that the UCLA Marching Band currently does not march baritones or baritone saxophones, although marching baritone horns and before that, bell front euphoniums had been a component in the past. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「UCLA Bruin Marching Band」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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