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Re: Reading

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Subject: Re: Reading
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 10:50:18 GMT
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Tim Morgan wrote:

> Anyone on the list at Reading at the weekend (15/11)?  Apparently, there
> are now only 8 bands competing after 11 of the original 19 withdrew.
> The main reason given is that the test piece (Isaiah 40) is too 
hard.
> This is surprising, considering that the test piece for Reading is
> selected by a ballot of the competing bands!!

Nothing would surprise me about the Reading contest.  I took part in 
the (Second Section? on Tintagel) once and when the adjudicator 
(Lynn Morgan) came out he announced that it had been so dark that he 
couldn't see the score; the same band came second and fourth that 
day, enabling another band to come fifth out of four competitors.  
(Honest!)  It really was dark - I couldn't see the basses.

A few years earlier I had seen another band (Pangbourne) begin without 
their conductor (who had apparently been competing in the same 
contest at a different venue); he joined them part way through.  
Contest officials had insisted that they would be disqualified if 
they didn't start, so...

The test pieces used to be chosen by band representatives at the AGM. 
I went along one year when they took a decision not to choose Year 
of the Dragon on the chairman's insistence that it was "too easy - a 
second section piece".  Oddly enough, they selected it the following 
year after BBS had won the European on it.

Best of luck to all competing at Reading this weekend!!!

(I won't be there)

David

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