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RE: 1998 All England Masters

Hi Tom

First a big thank you for the time and effort put into the results table,
I'm sur everyone on the list will second that( thanks also to the others who
posted the results. I don't know about bringing in vibrato and French horns
but I think there is quite enough in these results to keep us going for some
little while, so lets see what we can get started with :-) (I think that's a
smile - does anyone have a list of these things?).

First I don't agree that the adjudicators are paid purely to give their own
personal opinion. They are selected on the basis of their knowledge and
experience, provided with a score, and asked to judge a performance.
Obviously if they think that the conductor has given a wrong interpretation
they will make an adjustment to their score, but that has to be the only
time they give a personal opinion as such, and probably should not be given
as much weight as the other criteria, simply because it is a personal
opinion.

The rest of the judging should, as far as possible, given the odd lapse of
concentration and the difficulty in keeping some sort of memory of what all
the bands sounded like, be a matter of their musical knowledge, viz. tuning,
intonation, tightness, clarity, following score markings and speed etc.
Given this I can't see that there should be more than plus or minus 3 across
three judges with 20 bands!

Is it a case of the adjudicators not being given any guidance on how they
should adjudicate? or what criteria they should use? Certainly in the past
there must have been some pretty dramatic changes of mind after they had
conferred, and you have to wonder at the results of contests with only one
adjudicator!

To sum up I think this has the makings of a good system but perhaps the five
judges would be better. One things for sure - the adjudicators will have
something to think about in future, you may not even get 5 people to do it!
:-)

Cheers

Rod Gibson
Haverhill Silver



> OK, here goes...this is going to take me ages...I hope nobody beats me
> to it...here are the full results from this year's All England Masters
> Championship in Cambridge, including a full breakdown of the placings
> given by each of the three adjudicators.  The test piece was 'Dances and
> Arias' by Edward Gregson.
>


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