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Alternative Nationals Results

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Subject: Alternative Nationals Results
From: D.LANCASTER@xxxxxxxxxxxx 20 Oct 97 13:10:29 GMT
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 13:10:07 GMT
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Dear List

As one of the unofficial adjudicators on Saturday at the RAH (one in 
the hall that is, not the mews...) I'd like to offer my alternative 
results - they will probably won't  make any sense to those not at the 
contest, but never mind,  here goes:

Best rep solo:  Fodens

Best solo cornet not in the top 3 (all of whom were outstanding):
1st Rothwell, 2nd Flowers

Best Euph: Ever Ready

Best Basses: Fodens (maybe I'll get that pint next time, Phil!)

Best Percussion: Point of Ayr

Sight reading award: Grimethorpe percussion???

Best dressed conductor: Brighouse

Most yukkie fluorescent uniforms: Ransomes

Most expansive use of the Albert Hall stage: Kirkintilloch

Best lesson in why its a good idea to sit close together on stage: 
Kirkintilloch

Biggest surprise of the day: Kirkintilloch - total commitment!
2nd Ransomes: a very tidy performance

Best cheer at the results: Kirkintilloch

Best off stage horn solo: Faireys

Most off stage horn: EYMS (could anyone hear him/her?)

Least off stage horn solo: Ever Ready

Best sop: Rothwell (2nd Ever Ready)

Most dejected soprano: CWS Glasgow

Conductor's prize: The steward who conducted Grimethorpe's off stage 
horn solo (and got a couple of beats out)

Best laugh: seeing Brighouse lads running back from the mews to 
celebrate their win in a state of 'extreme relaxation' at the same time as
the ISB (Intentionally Sober Boys?) were arriving with their gear...

Best post-contest speech: Peter Graham

What I missed the most: hearing David King's interpretation...


And finally my top 6 (I should add that I missed Cory, Aveley and 
Whitburn):

6 Rothwell (lovely sop and horn duet - probs at start (with nerves?)  but 
really settled well)

5 Ever Ready (super euph and lower end - the only band who really got 
to crotchet = 50 and pianissimo for that euph solo...)

4 Grimethorpe ( a great reading of the piece but soloists 
surprisingly off their best form)

3 Brighouse (some tempi so quick some lack of clarity in bass detail 
from where I sat, but a very exciting performance - massive sound and
Jim Davis superb)

2 Fodens (Polished performance with all details in place - just odd 
minor lapses in solos - solo cornet spot on - very cultured sound)

1Faireys (I couldn't hear 1st trom well in trio section but otherwise 
very fluent and supremely musical)


Anyone else out there got some more results?

David


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