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Dutch Championship (fwd)


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> From: eric.de.cloe@xxxxxxxxxx (Eric de Cloe)
> Date: 20 Dec 95 14:49:40 +0100
> Subject: Dutch Championship
> 
> Hello all!
> 
> A bit late to report about the National Brassband Championships of Holland, but
> my harddisk crashed just after the weekend of last 9 December. 
> This event was for the first time held in the concerthall "De Doelen" in
> Rotterdam. This is the accomodation where also the European Championships of
> 1991 took place. This hall has very good acoustics and space for such an event.
> 33 bands competed in sections: 4, 3, 2, 1 and championship-section. As usual
> most of the bands are from "Friesland", a province in the very North of
> Holland. The main reason for this can be explained, the population in this area
> is not as densely as in the rest of Holland (many small villages). Holland is
> still the country of Fanfare- and Windbands and so in the early sixties it was
> just in that area, that it became very difficult to attract the musicians
> needed for these types of bands (Fanfare-bands need at least 40 players, wind
> bands 50). Many fanfare and windbands there converted to the brassband-medium.
> In the history of 15 years Dutch BB Champs it is not strange to see that almost
> all the titels went to bands from Friesland or Groningen (also a northern
> area). Except in 1990 the winners of section 3 BB Harp en Luit Vuren and in
> 1991 and 1993 brassband Limburg in the championship section were the only
> "foreign" bands which won the titels.
> 
> I played with Brassband Schoonhoven, which is a band from Schoonhoven, a
> village near Rotterdam, in section 2. The test-piece was Partita for Band of
> Philip Wilby. In the preparation we were not so lucky because our soprano
> player suffered of a broken muscle in her diaphragm just a few weeks before
> this event. Fortunately Tracey Redfern, soprano of Britannia Building Society,
> was able to step in. Without a rehearsel with our band she played very well as
> did the whole band on 9 december. So we won out of six bands and this was a
> surprise for many people in the audience (the only "foreign" band in this
> section!). In the championship section there was another surprise (not as big
> as in the second section, but..), Brassband de Bazuin Oenkerk won the title. In
> my opinion the gave a beautiful performance of the testpiece Yourney into
> Freedom of Eric Ball. There was much atmosphere and the playing was in the
> right style of the music. However some things were somewhat "overdone" and
> there were some slips. Also Soli Deo Gloria gave a very solid performance
> without accidents and good dynamics, but the sound and ensemble-playing of this
> band is less than De Bazuin's. I did not like the interpretation of the
> conductor of the Waldsang, Rieks van de Velde. As usual this conductor tries to
> do it in a "different" way which I mostly do not like, also this time.
> Allthough the playing of this band was of a very high level. Limburg, the band
> which impressed the audience the last few years, were disappointing. From the
> beginning till the end their performance was (I am sorry in saying this)
> boring. The band has a new conductor in Leon van Dijck, but the departure of
> Maurice Hamers is certainly a loss for the band. 
> 
> The day closed with a galaconcert. In the first half Britannia Building Society
> conducted by Howard Snell was in splendid form in items:
> Overture 'Le Corsair' of Berlioz, Harmony Music of Philip Sparke, The Eternal
> Quest of Ray-Steadman Allen (trombonesolo), etc. The second half there was a
> premiere of a new piece by Jan van der Roost (Belgium composer), he wrote an
> oratorio for Choir, Organ, vocal soloists and brassband. I did not hear the
> piece, because I was having a party with people of the band. But I spoke with
> people who enjoyed this piece played by brassband Soli Deo Gloria and others.
> 
> Results 15th Dutch National Championships:
> 
> Championship Section:
> 
> Adjudicators: Howard Snell, William Relton and Durk Lautenbach
> Yourney into Freedom - Eric Ball
> 
> 1 Bazuin Oenkerk - Klaas v.d. Woude (96 points)
> 2 Waldsang (last year winning band) - Rieks v.d. Velde (95)
> 3 Soli Deo Gloria - Wiebe Buis (94)
> 4 Provinciale Brassband Groningen - Piet v.d. Heide (93)
> 5 Rijnmond - George Wiegel (92)
> 6 Concordia - Danny Oosterman (91)
> 7 Excelsior - Piet Groeneveld (90)
> 8 Brassband Limburg - Leon van Dijck (87)
> 
> Section 1:
> Harmony Festival - Jan de Haan (competing bands: 7)
> 
> 1 Excelsior Zalk - Rieks v.d. Velde (92 points)
> 2 Excelsior Ferwerd - Klaas v.d. Woude (90)
> 3 Brassband Breukelen - Bienze IJlstra (89)
> 
> Section 2:
> 
> Adjudicators: Jan van Ossenbruggen, Jan van der Roost, Karl Ole Midtbo
> Partita - Philip Wilby (competing bands: 6)
> 
> 1 Brassband Schoonhoven - Erik Jansen (90 points)
> 2 De Lofklank Ureterp - Rieks v.d. Velde (88)  
> 3 Looft den Heer Beetgumermolen - Piet v.d. Heide (87)
> 
> Bye!
> Eric
> (solo-euphonium Brassband Schoonhoven)
> 
>	    eric.de.cloe@xxxxxxxxxx 

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