Some of the contents of the pages on this site are Copyright © 2016 NJH Music | [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: fun and games in Australia
Thanks for the info Phil.... Philip Anderton wrote: > Report on Australian Nationals > > Goff Richards gave the A-grade Championship to Kew band (Melbourne, > Victoria), displacing 2 A-grade New Zealand bands. It is good to have the > "Fireman's helmet" return to Australia (The A-grade trophy is a mounted, > silver-plated fireman's helmet, I guess in honour of the Melbourne Fire > Brigade Band which, I am told, dominated the Nationals years ago). Who conducts Kew these days? Tom looks after the juniors I think now doesn't he? > His comments were that the top three bands could easily compete at > Championship level in the UK, however the lower end of A-grade reminded him > of UK 1st and even 2nd division performances. A wide range then eh? Do you know how Excelsior did - I believe Russell Gray was playing for them............how did they manage that if Hawthorn had all these problems with Sheona? How did Russell do in the Gala concert? > About 400 people were kept waiting for about 50 minutes around midnight on > Saturday night as a decision was made about a protest from 7 of the 14 > competing bands regarding, amongst other issues, the eligibility of the > registration of one player from Hawthorn band. The protest was upheld and > that band was disqualified. I do not know the full details. I hope Chris > Earl will provide full details for those interested on his "Australia's > Band World" home page. hope so........ > If you want to experience something of the prevailing atmosphere, rent a > copy of the good Australian film "Strictly Ballroom", and settle down to > watch it with a few beers. It's a good movie about people who lose the > artistic plot and become obsessed with petty detail and winning in amateur > artistic competitions. Really, you will find many of the characters you > know from Band Competitions in this movie. > > Fortunately the music was generally excellent, and offset the somewhat > negative vibes otherwise prevailing. Goff Richards was a pleasure to play > for and listen to, a real gentleman. Good bloke eh? > We now have a recording of our > performance, with his very positive and useful comments over-recorded. > > It was a disappointing year for Warringah: 8th in the Test (185) and last > (179, ouch!) in the O/C. We were placed 11th I think. Oh dear - all those good reports you gave me Phil..........what happened? > Ensembles and sols were yesterday (Easter Monday). Our first quartet > (tuba, "Spritual Hazz Suite, Lennie Niehouse - Phil Anderton - BBb bass, > Steve Packer - EEb bass, Steve Pell-eupho, John Saunders - eupho) was > placed 4th in 8, and our quintet ("Morning Noon and Night Overture, arr > S.Packer - Steve Packer - bass, John Saunders - eupho, Michelle Breglec - > Eb tenor horn, Christina Saunders - flugel, Joanne Woosey - cornet ) was > placed first - the only other competitor was a quintet from Kew, the band > which won the championship! So we must be doing something right!! Good on ya's > The other disappointment is that the famous pub meeting never > eventuated, > but most of the internet banders did manage to catch up with each other. After all that promise - who can we blame for that then? Well done again Phil on your 'report' Monkey -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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