Addressing us today will be Mr. Stuart E. Rice on the topic: "Drum Corps Evolutions: A
Bird's-Eye View of the Movement."
Stuart is a resident of Salt Lake City, Utah completing a Bachelor of Music Degree in
Music Education with Instrumental Emphasis at the University of Utah, as a transfer student
from the Juilliard School of Music, New York. His doomed musical career began when at the
age of 16 he soloed with the Utah Symphony on the Euphonium. Rice graduated high school as
a Sterling Scholar in Music with a 2.8 grade point average, thanks in part to his high school
principal, who could not bear the thought of one of his Sterling Scholars not graduating because
they had failed Consumer Math.
His experience in the marching arts includes the 1983 Blue Devils Drum and Bugle
Corps, and consists of 15 seasons between 1977 to 1993 in organizations ranging from junior
high to professional marching bands. In addition, Rice served as an Instructor and
Choreographer of Marching for The University of Utah "Ute" Marching Band 1984 to 1987 and
1989 Rocky Mountain Magic Drum and Bugle Corps. He is a student of Tai-Chi Chuan, a
Children's Sunday School Teacher, composer, writer, and Editor of Flatland Press. He serves
this year as Co-founder and Steering Committee Chair of RAMD Virtual Symposium.
Rice is a librarian of seven years experience in areas including manuscripts, cataloging
and other technical areas. He is founder of The Upright Method, Functional Marching, and
Planar Analysis. He recently accepted a position as a Staff Writer for Drum Corps World, and,
with his beautiful wife, learned of his pending fatherhood the day of DCI Finals. Through the
miracle of ultrasound, Mr. Rice was able to view his first child Tuesday, at which time the fact
was confirmed that superior marching can be demonstrated naturally in only fourteen weeks.
Please welcome Stuart E. Rice.