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: Instrumental straightjackets
Alec Gallagher wrote: >(not to mention the contest piece time constraints, which almost alienated one >of our own composers recently, but that's another topic for discussion!) > Who was this last-mentioned person, please? Edward Gregson, concerning "Of Men and Mountains" chosen for the National Finals a few years ago. The committee withdrew it, saying that it was "Too long"...... There's vision for you! > And what a pity our predecessors did not take this advice 90 - odd years > ago. Here in the UK, the brass band fraternity have been so preoccupied > with the futile activity of contesting, that they have let world-class > composers slip through their fingers. What do we have to show for rubbing > shoulders with the great composers? Elgar (one piece), Holst (one piece), > Vaughan-Williams (two pieces, one of which never saw the light of day until > the 1980s), Tippett (one piece - or was the Festal Brass & Blues taken from > something else?), The blues section of Festal Brass with Blues is taken from his Third Symphony, the solo cornet part in this case being originally scored for Soprano voice. > If bands want "to be taken seriously", as the phrase goes, they could > do a lot worse than play the music of composers with which the concert-going > public are familiar. Then, people might think that bands are relevant in > the big wide world of music. I couldn't agree more. Cheers, Adrian J. Raven -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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