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Re: The Future for Bands

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Subject: Re: The Future for Bands
From: Roger Menning <Roger_Menning-G10891@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:23:11 -0500
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Andy, I think you've missed the point of Barb's email.  Of course SA bandspeople
practice to become perfect, and they enjoy being good, but the motivation is
different.  For the people in SA who are sincere in their faith, and I believe that
includes the vast majority of them, working hard on their music is part of their
contribution to their worship services.  That weekly obligation to perform well is an
important factor when as children learning to play they need to be coaxed to practice
every day.  (Same for adults!)  They also have excellent teachers from an early age,
and are exposed to great staff band concerts from time to time.   In the USA, SA bands
are the only organizations in which it feels "normal" to play in a brass band from an
early age, and the only place where a kid can assimilate the brass band sound and style
when first learning their instrument.  Also, in the public schools in the USA, kids are
often taught only enough to play their concert band parts, but not the full mastery of
their instruments.  SA programs are designed to develop all aspects of brass
performance.  Maybe in the UK it's different, but here in the USA, a lot of kids have
never even heard of the Arban book.

Just my $.02.

Roger Menning
Prairie Brass Band
Arlington Heights, IL

Andy Robinson wrote:


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