[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: Abstractions
Colin Knowles wrote:
>I'm not really complaining because I know what a tremendous effort
> it is to organise even a small local event let alone a national event on the
> scale of the National championships at the RAH, but (yes there's always a
> but) the choices of test pieces seems, to me, an opportunity missed. With
> this being a new millennium pieces could have been selected to reflect the
> 19th, 20th and 21st centuries with some of the great 'old' pieces from past
> finals for the lower sections and to give the 1st and championship new
> compositions to show the future.
The NCC promised old pieces accross the board in 1999 and new ones in
2000 and that is precisely what we got! Why should the Championship
and First section bands have all the fun?
> I will be with a band playing Abstractions which, according to my
> dictionary, means 'absence of mind'. After the first run-through (and I
> know it is early to judge) 'absence of music' would better describe it.
Another definition of abstract is 'ideal'.
Cheers
David