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Report Dutch Open Brassband Festival

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Subject: Report Dutch Open Brassband Festival
From: ericdecloe@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 11:19:58 +0200
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Hi All!

On 17 and 18 May the annual Dutch Open Brassband Festival
was held in Utrecht in the large "Jaarbeurs Congrescentrum".
This is a contest where also foreign bands are welcome.
On Friday 6 bands took part in the "Basic" section (section
4 and 3) and 6 bands in the "Middle" section (section 2 and 1).
On Saturday 6 bands competed in the "Championship" section.
Each band has to play half an hour and the programme must exist of
an own choice test-piece, a solo work and the testpiece. The test-pieces
were:
Basic section: Backdraft
Middle " "   : Far and Away
Championship : Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

A few middle section bands complained about the difficulty of
the testpiece and so the organisation decided just two weeks
before the contest that bands were also allowed to play the short version.
In my opinion this decision was very wrong, there were bands
which played the full version (three bands) and the rest played 
the short version. 

The results are:

Basic Section:
1. Randstad Brass Adventure - Den Haag, The Netherlands (91 points)
2. Juliana - Kollummerzwaag, The Netherlands (90 points)
3. Kunst en Vriendschap - Meeuwen, The Netherlands (88 points)

Middle Section:
1. David, Zwolle - The Netherlands (88 points)
2. Brassband Schoonhoven - The Netherlands (87 points)
3. Pro Rege, Heerenveen - The Netherlands (86 points)
(Note: the champion band played the short version of the testpiece)

Championship Section:
1. Brassband Willebroek, Belgium (95 points)
2. Sanderfjord Brass Symposium, Norway (93 points)
3. Brassband Rijnmond, Netherlands (92 points)
4. Provinciale Brassband Groningen, The Netherlands (91 points)
5. Brassband Union, Belgium (89 points)
6. Excelsior Veenwoudsterwal, Netherlands (85 points)

In the Basic and the Middle Section there were totally unexpected winners.
The public opinion was that Juliana and Schoonhoven should have win.  
In the Championship Section it was clear that Willebroek deserved to win.
There were a few English musicians in their line up as for example Roger Webster
on cornet. The solo euphonium of Willebroek won also the prize for the best
soloist: Stephen Pillaert. He was outstanding in his performance of
"Carnival Coktail"
and he is in my opinion at least equally as good as players like Steven Mead and
the Childs brothers.  
The Progamme of Willebroek:
Firework - Jan van der Roost
There is a green hill far away - arr. Newsome
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue - arr. ?? (NOT the well known arrangement of Sandy
Smith)
Carnival Coktail - arr. Sykes
Spectrum - Vinter
You'll never walk alone - arr. Snell
Lightwalk - Gott

Sanderfjord played: Dances and Arias - Edward Gregson; Rijnmond:
Paganini Variations - Wilby; Groningen: Circius - Aagaard Nilssen;
Buizingen: Salamander - McCabe; Excelsior: The Firebird - Stravinsky.


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