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David W. Buckley wrote: > This is the problem with making contesting the centre of the universe. "Ere, ere.........it's a game / sport that is judged by an individual. What other comparable event is judged like this? A game of soccer / rugby etc. - it's up to the players how well they do. A game of tennis........the person in control is yourself. How can it be humanly possible to get the right result when someone is locked up in a box for hours listening to exactly the same thing maybe up to 25 times? > Obviously adjudicators have to have some idea of how the music should go > and something to judge against. Why hold this against them? > In 1994 Horowitz made a major point about the importance of very subtle > tempo chamnges in the test piece and IMHO, BNFL got savaged in the > marking because they pretty much ignored the markings. A wonderful and > exciting performance was not even in the top 6 Thanks David! > and Blsck Dyke won for a > much inferior job but faithful tempos. "Ere, ere........... > But that's contesting. Absolutely right. At the end of the day players are competing in a lottery. We all know this before we start the contest though. > Brass bands need to forget contests and get on > with music. Hey, come on...........surely we don't want to be interested in 'MUSIC' do we? What on earth next? > A way too much energy goes into writing music never heard > again in order to test players. And into rehearsing it every night for a fortnight! > Has resulted in great playing standards > for what are still more or less amateurs but its time to move on. > Just my opinion. Maybe just your opinion but it's also mine and has been for years! Monkey -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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