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Re: 1998 All England Masters

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Subject: Re: 1998 All England Masters
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:14:05 +0100
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From: Rod <rodg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26 May 1998 18:43
Subject: RE: 1998 All England Masters


>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!

Leaving aside the matter of what constitutes a 'wrong' interpretation (!!!),
everything above is all, no doubt, highly commendable, but it is nothing
more than a wish list. As I have pointed out in another posting,
adjudicators have no rules to work to.  So if they want their personal likes
or dislikes to influence the placings (which in my opinion is what they
should do) they are perfectly entitled to do so.
>
>Is it a case of the adjudicators not being given any guidance on how they
>should adjudicate? or what criteria they should use?

Yes.

Best wishes

Alec

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