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RE: Adjudication correct?

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Subject: RE: Adjudication correct?
From: andy wooler <awooler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 05:06:03 -0500
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Sender: andy wooler <awooler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

W had similar comments from Philip McCann at Basildon where he told the
bands that the grazioso movement would be the one that won the contest. A=
nd
it proved so (according to him) - he was particularly watching the tempo
and anyone who took it too slow (his opinion, not mine) was wrong. Howeve=
r,
i take the view that music is an art form and should be appreciated as su=
ch
- i.e. don't go into it with preconceived ideas, accept what you hear as
an
interpretation in it's own right and then judge it as such.
IMHO, our version of that movement had a hell of a lot of musicality in i=
t
- we were running it around crotchet =3D 103, well below the minimum 116
mark
on the score - but for us it worked!

It has always annoyed me that in the brass band world, we don't allow our=

conductors the same freedom of expression that an orchestral one would ha=
ve
- as an example, I have 2 recordings of the Barber Adagio for Strings - o=
ne
conducted by Ormandy & one by Bernstein. The difference in tempo is very
wide, the piece lasting 7 minutes in the Ormandy version and 10 1/2 in th=
e
Bernstein. Now, I for one do not feel that anyone has the right to say th=
at
either is wrong!  Can you imagine the reaction you'd get from say, Andre
Previn or Karajan if one of our esteemed judges told him his tempi were a=
ll
wrong?!

I recall an adjudication from Maj Peter Parkes a few years ago - "wow, th=
is
is fast - but it works!" - a much more enlightened view.

Kris Leech wrote:
>Concerning the recent area contest for the Midlands area, First Section
>Contest, performing Purcell Variations...etc


>Any comments, or am I just being a sore loser? Sorry, I don't mean to be=
,
>but it gets right on my tits when this apparently mindless judging occur=
s


Encore!!


Andy Wooler, Conductor, Uckfield Concert Brass
MD "The Classic Dance Band", Trumpet "Sussex Symphony Orchestra"
awooler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (home),
andy.wooler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work)
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/awooler


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