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Subject: Re: Area Pieces (a reply)
From: D4VIS@xxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 13:24:04 EDT
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hi colin and all that have taken this topic   up for debate

firstly thanks for the compliment  I too am an admirer of your band who with 
have riddings have always enjoyed the fellowship of at the contests we have 
played in together.

you mention the excellent gilbert vinter in your reply and i feel that this 
just goes to prove my point.  What am I going to get nostalgic about if we 
don't commission new works.   yes i conceded that not everything written will 
be good, or even used again, but isn't this the case throughout the history 
of original brass band music.   for every gem there must be a lot of 
mediocrity just look at a contest programme from the 60's and see how many 
pieces you have heard of.

To possibly reopen a contentious topic though, good music doesn't have to 
contain something you can hum along to.  if the music contains atmosphere 
generated by the use of tone colours and harmony or rhythmic effects is this 
bad music?

as we all know beauty is in the "ears" of the beholder when it comes to music 
and long may this continue.

and finally to close wasn't gilbert vinter's music considered modern and way 
out in the 60's and 70's when it was written, considered too avant garde by 
the bandsmen of today, and now this excellent music is generating nostalgia   



so what am i going to get nostalgic about if no new music is written :-)))

regards to all

John Davis

PS if you are coming to the finals at Nottingham say hello and put some faces 
to the names


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