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Re: Bass Trom article in the Daily Telegraph

Alec

I would just like to mention some things about the 1993 Carnegie Hall
concert with Black Dyke Mills Band.  It is true about the Carnegie Hall
management not wanting to advertise the concert with the name Black Dyke
Mills Band.  It was my understanding that they wanted them to play under a
different name. That was resolved. 

As far as the concert going ahead successfully, you be the judge.  
Carnegie Hall seats  2804 people.  Although Brass Band World reported a
crowd of 1800 plus in attendance, only 600 seats were filled.  300 of which
were FREE tickets.  150 of those I personally distributed after the Boosey
Hawkes Rep, Chris Coppenger called me in a panic.. There were only 300
seats paid for.  The blame for this was not Carnegie Hall.  Boosey Hawkes
dropped the ball entirely.
Boosey did NO promotion to speak of and they were suppose to be behind it. 
Because of this, there were about 2200 empty seats, in spite of what was
reported in England.
A side point,  if The New York Staff Band had not arrived on their way back
from a week-end in Connecticut, and arriving after the 3rd piece, there
would have been 35 less in attendance.  Their tickets were free also. 

Black Dyke was superb as was their clinic presentation at Juilliard School
of Music.
Here again though, only 60 people were in attendence at Juilliard.  New
York City is one of the hardest places to draw an audience because there is
so much is going on in the city every night and this was just a Sunday
night.  With no publicity, you can't expect much.  Carnegie Hall does very
little publicity.  Promotion is handled by the promotors, in this case,
Boosey Hawks.  

Here was a "golden" opportunity for Americans to be exposed to brass bands
in the most classiest fashion.  What ashame more people were not aware of
it.  For weeks after that , brass players were saying "I wish I knew about
the concert."
For those that were there, the concert was successful.  Do YOU think "the
concert went ahead successfully?"  I guess it depends on how you measure
success but let's not fool ourselves.  Sorry for the lenght of this reply
Alec, but I couldn't pass this one up.

Mark Freeh  (New York City)


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> From: Alec Gallagher <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Brass Band Mailing List <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Bass Trom article in the Daily Telegraph
> Date: Monday, June 01, 1998 7:05 PM
> 
> Last Saturday's (May 30) edition of the Daily Telegraph (UK) carried a
> substantial article in the reviews section of the story behind the
> 'Proclamation' (Douglas Yeo) CD of bass trom solos.
> 
> 
> 2) (Apologies if you've heard this one before)  "In 1993, Carnegie Hall's
> management seemed unwilling to publicise the (Black Dyke Mills Band)'s
New
> York concert.  Only 20 tickets were sold until (Douglas) Yeo organised a
> protest letter from musicians, pointing out that the name Black Dyke
Mills
> Band was 160 years old and not calculated to offend Afro-Caribbeans or
> lesbians.  The concert went ahead successfully.
> 
> 3)  Mr Green seems to have had a nervous breakdown in the process (!)
> Shouldn't laugh, really.
> 
> Just thought I'd mention it.  There's so little coverage of brass in the
> general media, this article rather stood out.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alec
> 
> ________________________
> Alec Gallagher
> alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
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