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Adjudicators

To: Brass Band <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Adjudicators
From: Richard Luckhurst <rickl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 08:39:49 +1000
Organization: IPS Culgoora Solar Observatory
Priority: low
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Everyone

I would appreciate the list's thoughts on whether or not Adjudicators
should be given instructions by contest organisers.  

Over the years the Narrabri (NSW Australia) has run a number of 
contests and the standard of Adjudicators has varied from excellent
to terrible. We have had a fair bit of discussion, within our
Committee, about whether or not we have the right to give the
Adjudicator instructions. The results of the discussion seem to be
split 2 ways.

1) No we don't have the right to instruct the Adjudicator as this will
bias the results of the contest.

2) Yes we do as this will ensure a certain standard from year to year
and guarantee the Adjudicator has no preconceived ideas.

All of these thoughts come from a very bad experience the Band had at
the Australian National Championships, last year. The Band played
"From The New World" as its "Own Choice" in D Grade. We had received
very good comments from a number of Adjudicators prior to the contest
and were expecting a reasonable result. We were very surprised when
we received a very bad result. After listening to the Adjudicators
comments we found that he was expecting a performance very close
to the Orchestral version and he constantly made comments regarding
pieces missing from the Brass arrangement. Our MD spoke to the National
Band Council and we found that the Adjudicators receive no instructions
and are left to their own devices. We then spoke to a couple of other
Bands, who had the same Adjudicator, and they also found strange
comments on their Adjudicators tapes. 

It seems to me that the most basic instruction an Adjudicator should
be given is to adjudicate only on the arrangement in front of him and
not preconceived ideas or other arrangements.

I would appreciate other thoughts on this.

Regards

Richard Luckhurst

BBb Bass. Narrabri Shire Band


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