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Re: The BB Image (Was Redbridge CD)( Was Vibrato)

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Subject: Re: The BB Image (Was Redbridge CD)( Was Vibrato)
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 16:05:58 +0100
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From: Adrian J. Raven <aj.raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 23 May 1998 12:52
Subject: Re: The BB Image (Was Redbridge CD)( Was Vibrato)

>Clair Tomalin wrote:
>
>> how can we improve the Brass Band Image?
>

>One mistake that bands constantly make is trying to be "all things to
>all people" .... within a two-hour time slot!

Quite so.  All too often you see concerts (not just brass bands) claiming to
consist of music 'to suit all tastes'.  Yet for some strange reason they
almost never seem to cater to those whose tastes run to, say, atonal music,
or acid house.  So the claim is a lie, and indeed, quite impossible to
fulfil.

>One golden rule for all bands...... Don't play down to your audience by
>playing garbage.

Of course, what one person would throw out with the potato peelings is
another person's delight.  But the idea of having themed concerts should
solve that problem.  It saves a lot of heartache (and money) if you know
beforehand that the concert you are thinking of attending will consist of
Schoenberg and Webern, or Gilbert and  Sullivan.

>... music lovers are interested in the music first, then
>the performer/conductor.

These words should be engraved over the door of every brass band rehearsal
room.

Best wishes

Alec

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