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Re: March definition

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Subject: Re: March definition
From: David Taylor <dtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 11:50:19 +0100
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In message <115403@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nigel Horne
<njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>In message <37EB2C6D.5FFA2066@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Peter Younghusband writes:
>> How about issuing a list of acceptable marches?
>
>As musicians we should be encouraging new music and new composers, not be
>putting up barriers for development.

But encouraging composers to write marches??? 
Surely we have enough of this rather archaic form to satisfy our needs,
and should be encouraging them to write in more subtle and interesting
ways. (Of course, if a composer had a vision which could only be
expressed as a march, then that's different...)

Dave Taylor

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