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CW Journal
: Winter 2004-05 : The Spirit-stirring Drum, the Ear-piercing Fife
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Nothing so naturally quickens the step, or the heart, as, in
Shakespeare's words, "The Spirit-stirring Drum, the Ear-piercing Fife." There
is in that martial music something to make a person want to soldier. Every day
Colonial Williamsburg guests surrender to the urge and fall in behind the
passing scarlet-coated Fife and Drum Corps to parade up the Duke of Gloucester
Street on the thump of its rope-bound drums and the airs of its high-pitched
wooden flutes.
For years, staff photographer Dave
Doody has captured the march of the corps along the city's broad
eighteenth-century thoroughfares and across its wide picture-perfect greens.
His iconographic still of the squad following its drum major out of a bank of
fog, the evocatively titled "Marching Out of Time," is likely the most popular
representation of Colonial Williamsburg. Appearing, among other places, on
posters, annual reports, folders, brochures, postcards, calendars—even key
chains and refrigerator magnets—it certainly is the most widely reproduced.
Naturally, when the time came to
shoot a cover for the corps's new compact disc recording, The World Turned
Upside Down, the
assignment fell to Doody. Mustered at nearby Yorktown, the ranks fifed and
drummed across the historic battlefield beneath his lens until the pictures
portrayed not only the corps but its power to inspire. The new CD is available online.
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