{"id":26397,"date":"2024-12-31T13:25:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dci.org\/?post_type=hall-of-fame&#038;p=26397"},"modified":"2024-12-31T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:30:12","slug":"gordon-henderson-dci-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"hall-of-fame","link":"https:\/\/www.dci.org\/hall-of-fame\/gordon-henderson-dci-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Henderson"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"26397\" class=\"elementor elementor-26397\" data-elementor-post-type=\"hall-of-fame\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9c9f78 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e9c9f78\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0ec6e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d0ec6e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Gordon Henderson is a marching music talent that has been able to expertly straddle the line between the college band and drum corps worlds.<\/p><p>A professor emeritus at UCLA, Henderson served as director of the UCLA Bruin Marching and Varsity Band from 1982 to 2019 while also having a major hand in the DCI World Championship titles of the Santa Clara Vanguard (1989, 1999) and The Cavaliers (1992).<\/p><p>Henderson, a man of many talents, started out as a soprano bugle instructor with the Vanguard in the early \u201880s but soon became part of the visual design staff and eventually musical arranger. He gained a reputation as a big-picture thinker who served the corps he worked with well.<\/p><p>\u201cGordon\u2019s past long-standing involvement as a member of various DCI corps\u2019 staffs is illustrious, particularly when one considers the variety of roles in which he served, including brass arranger, brass instructor, drill designer, visual coordinator, program consultant and program coordinator,\u201d DCI Hall of Fame member Tim Salzman said.<\/p><p>The length of Henderson\u2019s association with various top-level corps is also impressive: 14 years with the Santa Clara Vanguard, six seasons with The Cavaliers, two seasons with The Cadets and additional seasons with The Academy, Colts, Pacific Crest, Troopers, Imperial Guard, Pride of Cincinnati and Capital Regiment.<\/p><p>Henderson is also a highly-regarded arranger, consultant, clinician, and adjudicator around the world. From the Netherlands to Thailand, his expertise and passion for the marching arts know no boundaries. Nor does his gift for bringing along the next generation of educators.<\/p><p>\u201cGordon gave me my start,\u201d Bluecoats program coordinator Dean Westman said. \u201cHe put my championship medal around my neck on the field at Camp Randall Stadium (with The Cavaliers in 1992) and said \u2018So, do you want a job?\u2019\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThat moment changed my life,\u201d Westman explained. \u201cEvery single wonderful thing that has happened to me in my career in DCI and public education can be directly traced back to that life-changing moment.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f84e444 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f84e444\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Induction Video\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-84b6efd elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"84b6efd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/iPXg2UqUezk&quot;,&quot;mute&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;lazy_load&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"featured_media":26410,"template":"","hall-of-fame-year":[60],"class_list":["post-26397","hall-of-fame","type-hall-of-fame","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","hall-of-fame-year-60"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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