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Contesting, again

To: "brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Contesting, again
From: Robin Oye <rlopmo@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 18:34:52 -0500
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Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

	I have one or two points to make in rebuttal to David Lancaster, but
they are mostly by way of clarifying my previous remarks.

	First, I am well aware of the role brass bands have played in the social
history of Britain, and this has been one of the attractions of banding.  I,
myself have spent a long while in the union movement in the US, as a member of
unions, and as an organiser.

	Second, as a composer, I am personally well aware of the challange of
limitations.  Virtually everything I have ever written has been constrained by
available players.  Indeed, the task of writing for band is daunting, as there
is such a large palette compared to what I has been available to me in the past.

       I have played team sport, too (even cricket!).  I suppose what I meant by
my remarks on competition is that there is a time and place for everything, and
maybe sport is, and music is not it. I was very competative on jazz stages as
young man, but I don't play that way anymore..  I don't think that it is a
question of having outgrown it, but I am not competative that way now, and I
don't regret it.

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