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- Subject: LOOK!!!LOOK!!!!LOOK!!!!
- From: gregors@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gregor Spowart)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 17:47:06
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On Tue 21 Jan 97 (12:30:31), stur9630@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: First of all, 'hello' to all of those SA bandsmen on the mailing list. It's been a couple of days now since I have seen any 'top 10' lists regarding SA bands (playing ability only), here is my top 10 in no particular order: 1) International Staff Band 2) Canadian Staff Band 3) Enfield Citadel Band, UK 4) New York Staff Band 5) London Citadel Band, CANADA 6) Chicago Staff Band 7) Amsterdam Staff Band 9) Melbourne Staff Band 10) Hendon Citadel Band, UK I don't have many corps. bands on the list because not many corps bands make recordings. I can't say I've heard any recordings by Regent Hall band, Chalk Farm, Bristol Easton, Peterborough, Staines etc. lately. Do any of these bands have recent recordings available? I will say that at this moment, ISB are #1. I was very disapointed to see that someone had placed NYSB ahead of the Canadian Staff personally. Their live recorded performance of 'Resurgam' on 'A Gala Concert with Canadian Virtuoso Trombonist, Alain Trudel' is by far the best I've heard. Even better than the ISB's recording of 'Resurgam' on Partita. When a band is live and pumped, nothing can beat them. A recording studio just doesn't easily create the atmosphere for a piece like that. The one comment I would like to make about vibrato is that I feel the term 'vibrato' and 'warm sound' are un-related, eg. Ian Bousfield has amazing sound, a very warm sound, yet he achieves this without vibrato. Vibrato can be nice and very nasty. David Dawes, Derek Kane, Phil Smith would be a good examples players with nice vibrato, bad.......well I don't think it would be nice to bash anyone in particular. I do feel that playing euphonium requires more vibrato than any other brass instrument. It seems to be the nature of the instrument. The one thing that is true, vibrato and its use is very opinionated. Lets leave it at that. Here is my list of top non-SA brass bands only to name a few: 1) Yorkshire Building Society 2) Black Dyke 3) GWS Glasgow 4) Grimethorpe 5) Williams Fairy To rank these in any order is virtually impossible as far as I am concerned. It depends who is playing in what band on what day. The turn-over in non-SA bands seems to be far greater than any SA band (and for obvious reasons too). There's my 2 cents worth. Any bands planing on visiting CANADA any time soon? | _________/| | Mark Sturge | | (*____|___\|________ | stur9630@xxxxxxxxxxxx| -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Gregor Spowart <gregors@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ...... In case of emergency - RUN!!!!!!! ...... -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx