FLUTES
The Flutes have had a wonderful time this season! The Spring semester started off strong with our Flalentines concert. The flutes sounded amazing and we raised some money for the Trevor Project. The Fall semester proved to be great as well, with fantastic new members joining the BRMB family. From frequent koomcha games to fun dances during rehearsals, it’s been a really good time for everyone involved. We had an impeccable time during our away trips, with the Harvard one being significantly enjoyable as we explored Boston and ate some lovely pizza and pastries together!
It’s been a pleasure to see the flute section grow into even more of a community and giving people, both new and old, a space where we can all have a good time as we play and dance and (respectfully) yell at the Drum Major during many concerts. Thank you to all of our incredible flutes for cultivating this community alongside us. We flove you all!
Flove,
Katherine and Jordan
CLARINETS
Aaaaannnnd with that the 2025 season has come to an end! The Nets have had a fantastic season!We welcomed 18 new members including lots of freshmen and a few other bandies that joined our ranks. Each and every one of them brought amazing energy into our group and watching all our freshmen find their home both within the band and at Cornell has been so incredible. Somehow, we made it all season without busting out the rain coats! It was so much fun going to Yale, Harvard and Penn and getting to connect with our alumni in the area. There were so many highlights of the season but rallying the troops to have our first ever “grand” homecoming was so much fun. We really enjoyed welcoming back such a large number of our alumni and being a part of such a special moment for our section.
Of course, we stayed up to shenanigans, winning the scavenger hunt, putting ourselves to work squatting every time the football team scored, and carrying on the newer tradition of making pudding bags. We also started some fun things like wearing green on mondays for no reason and doing silly dances on the field. We want to thank our seniors for all they have given to our band during their time here. We have so much pride in our section, see such a great future for the nets, and feel so lucky to have been able to lead such an amazing group of people!
Clove & for the glory of the pack,
Lila & Heck
SAXES
The 2025 season was Incredible(s) for the Big Red Saxes! We welcomed fourteen new slovely saxes to our section in marching and pep. From sax tag and rank games to minty cocoa at rehearsals, from collapsing sax pyramids to JL bumping and # jumping (co-opted by the dastardly members of $), there hasn’t been a dull moment in the saxiest section in the only real marching band in the Ivy League. We enjoyed beautiful weather at all five of our home games and our three away games at Yale, Hahvahd, and Penn. We even started to believe in the power of manifestation after the football team’s four-game winning streak! Three new tunes made their way into our sax cheers box, but the Vengabus remains a crowd favorite.
What a great year it’s been! Seeing the section grow has been wonderful to see, and it makes us so glad to see all of the saxes, the youthful and the aging, hawing even though we didn’t say yee. Thank you to all of the alumni for your continued support and thank you to all of the current members for making our terms as section leaders so fulfilling!We’re psyched for next year!
Gimme an S, gimme an A, gimme an X,
Alannah & Dawson
TRUMPETS
What have we accomplished this season? Well, we’re glad you asked! To expand upon our tradition of excellence and excellent shenanigans, we have: (1) expanded our favorite numbers to include the number 67 (pronounced “six-seven”)* (*not an opinion held in unanimity); (2) absolutely demolished a pizza piñata (thank you Olsens!) in celebration of completed morning rehearsal (the strat for anyone looking to perfect their technique? Hang the piñata off a guard flag held by the tallest member of your group, and then beat it with a metal folding chair); (3) increased our variety of Mooses, including flavors that incorporate visual components, successful jukes (consistently breaking Josh’s ankles, literally bringing him to his knees that one time), and improved mockery of the b*nes. We’re proud that our new member retention has been so high–our family has gotten so much richer by our 7 new additions who have each brought new ideas, jokes, and great presence to our section. Our culture is thriving, our silliness ballooning, and our playing remains (f&a) loud and high. The “t” in desCANt is still invisible, and the b*nes still base their personality around us. Life is good. We send out love to our Olds!
HORNS
The Horns continued to thrive this year, welcoming 4 new members and 5 new section hoppers to the Hamily! With this horn explosion, we’ve tackled many fun adventures. From surviving baked goods that are vegan-dairy-free-nut-free-crab-free, to jractice in the parking lot, and flying kites at Stewart Park (and almost reclaiming the strut-off title), the horns have always been up to something! And the olds were out in full strength this year, rallying for a Mean Girls Day of EPIC proportions (we didn’t even have to kidnap Ryan!) and closing off the season with us, too, at the Penn away trip! We also had a great time riding the 4-game win streak (including a crazy insane double overtime!!), and can now actually kinda sorta play Cornell Victorious! This year, we are saying goodbye to six amazing seniors: Derek, Jen, Jacob, Jonathan, Josh, and Komet. Luckily, we still have a few final shenanigans left this year (HORN CAROLING!!) before the season truly comes to a close. Thank you all for such an amazing year as your Section Leaders, and we can’t wait to see what the future holds for the horns!
Hlove,
Allison and Campbell
BONES
Da bones accomplished many great feats this year! Our freshman class is strong and spirited, and our ranks are full. We’ve also welcomed a boom of section-hoppers and bone brunchers! Da bones are particularly competitive in pep this season. The section routinely takes a fifth of the band’s hockey tickets, filling up the top row of Lynah. We’re playing loud and proud for the team, and dripping just a bit on the trumpets, as always! And of course, we’re thriving on the greatest bus-bus-bus-bus-bus and Tetrising like never before. Da bones were graced by the flawlessly marching Unknown Bone on a particularly foggy practice this October. We remembered, remembered the fifth of November(d) to cheers all across campus. For the first time, the bones UNDERBONE!-d off of the clocktower, which was audible from homes in Collegetown! We also had a particularly tropical Hawaii 5-0 all going dawgs out on the sandy shores of Schoellkopf, followed by the traditional Thanksgiving Feast. We’re not done yet! Da bones are eagerly awaiting bone caroling and making the season bright. It was a fun-filled season, and we can’t wait to see you in 2026!!
TUBAS
The Big Red Tubas had an unforgettable year filled with laughter, and plenty of spirit! Our new members learned the way of the tuba quickly, enjoying some of our fun traditions. Including Tuba Halloween, blocking traffic, leaving rehearsal slightly early, Tuba Narco, and Tuba dinners. Tuba Halloween was especially great because we were finally able to go up the clock tower for the first time in 4 years. With a total of SIXTEEN tubae we were able to raise money for Tompkins County 4H with fun songs like the Minor Moose, and Halloween Medley. Can’t wait for more fun next year!
DRUMLINE
The 2025 season has ended, and it sure was a great one for the Drumline! We had an amazing group of 12 new members to the drumline who were either freshmen, transfers, or played with us from other sections. We really branched out with members coming from other sections to play with us, and some of our members even went to other sections to play with them. We even had a lot of changes within our subsections that led to an enormous 10 BASS BASSLINE! Even after getting new instruments last year, we’re at max capacity with a lot of our subsections, and we couldn’t be happier!
From making our own silly visuals during halts to doing cartwheels at every event, we made sure to have fun! Especially memorable for the whole drumline was the craziness that Pinball Wizard brought with everyone trying to knock each other’s hats off with no mercy. We’ve even been improving our hat throwing and we came incredibly close to landing a hat on Josh’s head so. many. times. There was never a dull moment for us, and we made sure to make each bus ride to Yale, Harvard, and Penn full of… personality. There was a lot of enthusiasm for playing this year, with everyone STICKing around and playing A after every! field rehearsal! By the end of the season, it was sounding real clean. Overall, it was a fantastic year, and we can’t wait for 2026!!
GUARD
It is difficult to believe that the 2025 marching season is coming to an end. This was an absolutely fantastic year for the Big Red Color Guard. We reached many new heights: not only did we have the biggest guard we have had in a long time (ten people on the field!!), we kept testing the limits of the atmosphere with our tosses. We remained at the front of the field, just like last year. Finally everyone has realized who the real show stoppers are. We have so many glovely new members in the section, from our freshmen to new seniors, truly everyone is welcome in the guard. We have continued to try to beat the non-musical allegations through dabbling in many different instruments. We have members playing trumpet, cymbals, clarinet, and sax! We are taking full advantage of the band, and gracing many different sections with our presence. Speaking of, as a section, we have become very vocal. It is because of us that the band brings MORE PEP during the parade. And who else would inform them that we are interested in DRUM CADENCE?? Oh, where would the band be without us? We cannot wait to see what the next season will bring us, but the fantastic weather and historic winning streaks of Cornell Football will always be remembered.