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Re: Australian National Results

Well Bruce having just got home after the Nationals and read the mail (or lack
of it) on the contest I will add my dollars worth ,I'm not known as a" lurker"
and I was surprised by your criticisim of the lack of comment about your brother
and Hawthorns win.  Could it be that having heard the performance by Hawthorn of
the test people were gob smacked by the marks given to a performance that had so
many points to detract from it. Starting at the horn entry cornet coherency in
the very fast first var.letr B, Wrong finger by the top cornet in his solo,diff
in style shown within the troms at I etc. Now this does not say that they
were'nt the best of the    bunch but don't expect people to throw praise about a
decision they might not have agreed with.Whoever wins a contest, they are the
only band that are happy.Why talk about an unknown "Salvo boy" Whats so
special?  Barrie Gott, Howard Taylor and myself were unknown in contest
circles,now we all conduct the top bands in our states and country  also look at
the stats for the last five years and you will see that Willoughby and not
Hawthorn have been the most consistent performing band in the country.

 On a different note but still about the contest. When are the administrators
going to get their act together, once again we had an abuse of the rules
relating to the March on stage, if a conductor doesn't know the difference
between a contest march or one designated as a quickstep then the organising
commitee should. A Salvation Army Festival March would not fit either critertia.
I lodged a protest about this before the results were announced so that the
other bands could not say "sour grapes" As I knew it would be the protest was
dismissed because the march had been accepted by the music panel. This is the
third time since 1995 Nats that this has happened and on two of those occasions
my band were badly disadvantaged by this ERROR OF INTERPRETATION.

You people in England should think youselves lucky that you have organisers that
stand by the written word as unpalatable as that seems at the time.We are an
unsponsored band and our trip to the Nationals cost at least $16000 not counting
the money spent on" refreshments".

Our thanks to Monkey for carrying our banner ,but in case you think he's
changed, hanging from his belt was his mobile phone and I'm sure the local
watering holes were on speed dial in case he was overcome by the exercise and
needed a quick pint or two!!!!!!!

Ron Grice
Waratah Brass

Bruce Johnson wrote:

> As an interested reader if the brass band mailing list (and a self-confessed
> lurker), I am disappointed at the lack of comment on the Australian
> Nationals win by Hawthorn at the weekend.  Is it because it's "just another
> Hawthorn victory"? (Their 14th in recent times, I believe)
>
> I would have thought that their remarkable achievement in coming from a
> pretty sad situation 3 years ago (when things weren't going well and
> everyone thought they were dead and buried) to  a great Nationals win was
> worthy  of comment!
>
> And all this with an extremely young team, including a secretary aged 25,
> principal players all of whom (with one exception who is 60!) are well under
> the age of 30 (in fact, mostly under 25), and a conductor aged 28 (by a long
> way the youngest ever to win, I believe).
>
> It would seem that the misery merchants who were previously very open and
> cutting in their criticism of the appointment of the 'unknown' 25 year old
> Salvo boy to the position of Hawthorn's conductor 2 1/2 years ago must now
> be eating their words.  Good!  Because as an interested bystander I have
> seen the tremendous drive and passion with which Ross and the band have
> worked to rebuild the band from a very ordinary position to one which, by
> accounts from the weekend, has Hawthorn playing better than ever before.
>
> I for one am proud of the achievements of this, as they have proved once
> again, Australia's most successful brass band.
>
> Bruce Johnson
> [Proud brother of the conductor]
>
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