Down Beat: No drum corps show in DeKalb this year

DeKALB - The martial sounds of drum and brass that for nearly all of the last 27 summers could be heard wafting across DeKalb will be a lot rarer this year. Milwaukee-based Drum Corps Midwest, which has been holding drum corps competitions in DeKalb since the late 1970s, suspended its operations in November. Other than practice sessions by at least one drum and bugle corps at Northern Illinois University's Huskie Stadium, that means people will have to go elsewhere to hear the precision marching groups. &#8220The organization has kind of gone dormant,” said DCM Executive Director Roman Blenski. &#8220The membership has kind of splintered up a little bit.” Blenski said the Division I, or larger drum corps, split from the organization two yea