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Phil McCann (fwd)

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Subject: Phil McCann (fwd)
From: njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Nigel Horne)
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 16:22:07 GMT
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This message was sent to listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by mistake, instead
of brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, so I am forwarding it manually.

Forwarded message follows:

> To: listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Phil McCann
> 
> Hello to all,
> 
> My name is Fred Harvey and I play solo horn in Imperial Brass, a brass band
> located in central New Jersey.USA.
> Our band was fortunate enough to place first at the last two Northeastern
> Brass Band Championships
> held at the US Military Academy at West Point.  Many years ago I was the
> soprano player with the New York Staff Band of The Salvation Army and was
> Deputy Bandmaster and Chorus director with the New Jersey Youth Band for
> several years including a tour of Denmark and Sweden in 1964.  I have been,
> with my friend Mark Freeh, to five Nationals at Royal Albert Hall, and have,
> over the years, developed many friendships with people in the movement.
> 
> I am happy to join this net of band enthusiasts and look forward to jumping
> in when I feel I have something to add to the topic.  
> 
> Having said that, I noticed mail this morning concerning Phil McCann and
> Sellers Band.  I was on the edge 
> of a British championship band conductor-band breakup in the mid 80s.  I was
> very close to bothe parties and found it all quite messy.  I can only relate
> it to a divorce.  Competing at the top level in Britain can be a rewarding
> conductor-band relationship is made in heaven and its till death do us
> part is not reading The British Bandsman or Brass Band World.  
> 
> What a great feeling it must be to take a band from scratch, move up through
> the sections, and take them to the top.  The special friendships that develop
> in the band, the all for one, one for all spirit, the nobody can stop us
> drive.
> But then the whispers in the pub start; I know he got us this far but can he
> win the big one?  Maybe we, as a band are better than him as a conductor.
>  If we only had a top name in front of the band.  Sound familiar?
> 
> There is no right or wrong on either partys side.  Thats just the way life
> is in contesting.
> 
> Questions to consider:  When a band loses a contest, should players be
> replaced to upgrade the band?
> Should a new conductor be hired with that little extra something we need to
> take us to the top?
> Is it who has the power?
> Whose band is it anyway?
> 
> I will be happy to respond to any of the foregoing.
> 
>	    Fred	  
> 
> 
> 
> 

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