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Subject: Concert disasters
From: Tim Morgan <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 23:02:12 GMT
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 Something that happened to me tonight prompted me to start this thread, which 
will perhaps take some of the heat out of the recent test pieces debate.
 For the last 18 months, July 13 1996 has been in my diary as a very important 
date.  My band, Sandwell Youth Band, had a concert in the Adrian Boult Hall, 
Birmingham, with Steven Mead, probably the best euphonium player in the world.  
So, tonight was the big night.  After working nearly nine hours, I finished at 
six this evening, and, grabbing a burger on the way, managed to leg it across 
town in full concert dress to get to the venue for 6.30, ready to start at 7.00. 
 As I entered the warm up room, the fire bell went.  We all started 
laughing...but it didn't stop.  Eventually, we realised we were going to have to 
leave the building, which we did.  After about 15 minutes, we were let back in 
again.  By now, everyone had arrived, and the start time was put back to 7.15.  
So...we all got our instruments and did the customary band warm up, hymn tune, 
etc.  We had just learnt of how we were going to have to march on stage to 
music, from BOTH SIDES, and were standing, with instruments and music in hands, 
at the top of the stairs, the audience having just been comfortably reseated, 
when the bell went again.  So, it was everyone outside again.  After another 15 
minutes, someone told us that the Adrian Boult Hall staff didn't know what was 
going on with the system, and had decided to cancel the whole concert...five 
minutes before it was due to start.  That just has to be one of the best.  We'd 
had extra rehearsals with Steven, learnt new pieces to play with him, including 
Goff Richards's amazing 'Pilatus', as well as two marches to play with the 
Salvation Army Timbrels.  It really was set to be the climax of the year as far 
as our band was concerned, and it was just snatched away, five minutes before 
what would have been, for me personally, one of the highlights of my five years 
with the band so far.
 Which prompts me to ask the question...can anyone possibly beat that for 
concert disasters?

Best wishes, (On July 13...that's right...THIRTEENTH!!...the evening of the 
concert that never was)
-- 
Tim Morgan, Bass Trombone, Woolley Pritchard Sovereign Brass.


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