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Re: Contests Utterly Futile?? - from a percussionist's point of view.

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Subject: Re: Contests Utterly Futile?? - from a percussionist's point of view.
From: Vicki Aumann <vicki@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 08:53:27 +1000
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I'm a bit of a fence sitter when it comes to contests.  I don't particularly
like them but I wouldn't want to see them abolished either.

However I would like to comment on the recent Aussie Nationals. Firstly, the
positives to come out of it for my band was the fact that we worked hard and
cemented our place as one of the higher ranked B grade bands.  The weekend from
a social point of view was great fun and I think we all became closer as friends
too.  Everyone seems quite enthusiastic about competing in future contests.

On the negative side I was disappointed with the adjucator's comments.  They
were hand written crit sheets - not the tape - and they were extremely
generalised and cliched (IMHO).  Percussion never got ONE mention at all.
Nothing, zilch, zero.  The test piece went off without a hitch for percussion
but I know I made a few blunders in the own choice and so did my colleague.  Our
own choice was Connotations and has quite a varied and difficult part for all
sorts of percussion.    As I listened to our MD reading the crit sheets out at
band practice, I actually wondered why I even bothered making the effort with my
percussion parts.  So from my percussion point of view, the contest itself was a
bit "futile".

Vicki A.
City of Greater Dandenong


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