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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: "Dave White" <bang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 16:28:24 +0100
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>Funnily enough, I had Blitz in mind when I wrote the above comment.  A
>couple of weeks ago I heard Dyke play Blitz at a concert in London.  It was
>sensationally good, as the reaction of the audience confirmed.  One of the
>reasons why it was good was because much of the fast stuff was taken at a
>pretty brisk pace, which made it very exciting.  Yet a few weeks earlier,
>the band had come quite a long way down the order in the Yorkshire area
>contest.  The reason for this, if comments on this list were anything to go
>by, was precisely because they *had* taken it up tempo, as opposed to
>sticking to the exact tempi written on the score.


The very reason which I find contesting so irritating (I don't want to stop
doing it) is that we played Blitz too at Darlington, stuck to the tempos and
lo and behold despite a reasonable performance (we were much the underdogs)
got marked down for 'not having enough pace'! This is the problem for me how
inconsistent can you get?

Dave White

Aunt Bessies East Yorkshire Brass.


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