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Re: Test Pieces

To: <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Test Pieces
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:13:51 +0100
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Todd <john.todd@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05 September 1999 11:05
Subject: Re: Test Pieces



>David Williams wrote:
>
>> Colin Randle is right about the "old" test pieces.  It  was possible to
>> listen to most bands playing Gilbert  Vinter's compositions...enjoy them
>> immensely and remember them !  And "Les Preludes", Resurgam...


>I think you'll find that the piece you listened to a few times is well over
25
>years old. Many of the ideas in it can be heard in the composers Partita,
>written in 1947, which came well before Vinter had thought up any of his
nice
>tunes.

...and indeed predates Resurgam (1950).

Alec


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