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Re: Geographic Breakdown

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Subject: Re: Geographic Breakdown
From: Dee & Paul Rothery <rothery@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 12:06:44 -0600
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>
>>Is the music played by US bands of a similar type and standard to 
>>that in the UK? A player with and Australian band commented to me 
>>recently that brass music over there all tended to be loud and raucus 
>>and quiet melodic playing was almost unknown.
>
This is a generalisation but unfortunately pretty true. Many bands equate
loud and fast with exciting. Sometimes this is true but you must have some
contrast and it often doesn't happen. However I was at the NABBA contest in
Red Wing last year and I heard some great playing. In particular there was
a concert by the Army band which was great. Their solo horn (Dave Krantz I
think) had a massive sound and was a very solid player but I'd already
heard him playing a solo with the sightreading band 2 days before and heard
just how good he was on the quiet slow stuff. So there are brass band
players here, just few and far between.

Paul
Rocky Mountain Brassworks


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