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Re: Instrumental straightjackets

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Subject: Re: Instrumental straightjackets
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 00:05:55 +0100
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From: David Read <dtr20@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 29 April 1998 22:20
Subject: Re: Instrumental straightjackets

>
>
>I had a chat with one of the London orchestra's principal trombones last
>night and he said he had a problem with brass bands because the people
>rarely have anything good to say about people in other bands. Talk to
>the pros in London about their opposite numbers in other orchestras and
>they'll usually have nothing but praise and respect. Maybe he has put it
>a little strongly about banders, but from my experience there is truth
>in some of that. That sort of BB attitude can only have come from
>constant rivalry in contesting.

A parallel contrast can be seen in audiences for contests and concerts.
Bands playing in concerts are buoyed up by a prevailing spirit of goodwill
from the audience - they have, after all, paid good money and want to be
entertained.  Contest audiences, on the other hand, are composed almost
entirely of players from other bands and their supporters, all of whom are
secretly willing the band on stage to cock it up, in order to improve their
own band's chances.
>
>And I think we are a little lacking in serious musical credibility
>outside banding. Is contesting the reason behind this?

Yes.
>
>Dave

Best wishes

Alec


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