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Subject: Adjudicators
From: "George.Fairhurst" <George.Fairhurst@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:09:45 -0000


Once again we are that time of the year when several hundred bands in
the country are upset with the quality of adjudicators at the area
contests.
There will be a small number of bands who think that they are the best
adjudicators in the world.
We as an organisation tend to let ourselves down, I feel, in that we
accept that the people chosen to judge us at contests are beyond
reproach and that they are all knowing where bands and test pieces are
concerned.
"Who tests the tester, what are their backgrounds,?"
In every area that I can think of before you can sit in judgement of one
person or group of people then an examiner has to pass some type of exam
to prove that they have the knowledge and quality to pass comment on
another's ability.
I am one who has said "Well that's Banding for you." gone away and
eventually got over the results good or bad.
I put these thoughts down as after a Contest,a none playing person not
attached to any band but who loves music said, "I find that your
organisation is very amateurish in the way you decide who has played the
best. Do they know what they are doing?"
Isn't it time that we had a panel of adjudicators who have passed some
type of exam and proved themselves to be worthy of the difficult task
that is put on them.
I suspect that on occasions our heroes listen to the test piece of the
day on a C.D. played by a top section band who has spent several hours
recording the music and then several more hours taking out and adding
notes in when they were not correct and judge all the performances on
that rendering rather than on the interpretation of the musical director
and the bands on the day of the contest.
Well soap box away now and I look forward to reading any other persons
views, or ideas.





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