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Re: Registration - to be or not to be

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Subject: Re: Registration - to be or not to be
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 01:04:51 +0100
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Wooler <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Brass Band List <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 06 April 1999 22:53
Subject: Registration - to be or not to be

Andy Wooler wrote:

>Registration - many of you may know me as an evangelist for the total
>removal of all registration systems, a view I still hold.

I have an even better idea.  Abolish all contests.  They stifle creativity;
they prove absolutely nothing, because any adjudication in a brass band
contest is necessarily subjective; they have restricted the repertoire; they
have restricted the instrumentation;  they have hindered brass bands in
gaining respectability and credibility as a musical medium;  in 99% of cases
they cost the competing band money;  they are of absolutely no interest or
consequence to anyone outside of those directly or closely linked with brass
bands; in short, contests have held brass bands back from the day they were
invented. They are utterly futile.

I don't think you're evangelical enough, Andy!

Alec

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