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Re: Variations on an Enigma

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Subject: Re: Variations on an Enigma
From: David Buckley <davebuckley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:48:03 -0400
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References: <199910160026.NAA30103@mail.wave.co.nz> <LGNxSDAFSLC4Iwhh@fylde.demon.co.uk>
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Part of every brass band piece reminds me of something else. There is so little
that is truly musically original that it is pitiful. Probably won't change until
we stop contesting with its emphasis on technique, technique and technique.

Probably just feeling curmudgeonly after playing in a wonderful performance of
New World last night, the real orchestral score. The entrance to the chorale
ending the 2nd movement must be one of the more nerve racking bits around, but
it is there not to find out if you can do it but to make beautiful music. Right
in the middle of the register too!

Dave.

Tim Morgan wrote:

> In message <199910160026.NAA30103@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Simpson
> <annes@xxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >A Norwigan Guy told me the test piece that the Enigma is based on.
> >
> >>It all makes sense now!
> >>
> >>Is anyone interested?
> >>
>
> Bits of it remind me a lot of Contest Music by Wilfred Heaton.  There's
> one particular motif that is blatantly lifted from this earlier test
> piece.  Is that the piece the Norwegian guy said?
>
> --
> Tim Morgan, Bass Trombone, Woolley Pritchard Sovereign Brass.
>
> --
>
>	 unsub brass-band
>	 end

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