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-----Original Message----- From: Richard Cookson <RichardCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: INTERNET:brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@smsltd.demon.co.uk <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@smsltd.demon.co.uk> Date: 09 May 1998 17:57 Subject: Brass-band Digest V4 #125 Message text written by INTERNET:Alec Gallagher >Isn't up to you, the musician, to provide the challenge to the public? Music would never develop if musicians and composers did not provide the listening public with new challenges. Lead, man, don't follow - it's your duty!!< All very good in theory, but the fact is, the park concert going public don't want to be challenged! I disagree - I don't believe that the park concert going public know what they want. The typical park audience, in my experience, consists for the most part of people who went for a stroll in the park, just happened to find the band there, and stopped to listen. For that reason, they are not particularly critical of the music you play, provided that it is relatively tuneful, entertains them and holds their attention. After all, for many, perhaps even most of them, a live performance is a novel experience - it is perhaps difficult for people like us, who make live music twice a week, to understand that, for so many people, experiencing live music is a rarity. When I go to park concerts I expect (and want) to hear marches, overtures and selections etc. (As an aside I would like to say that I also used to like hearing the classic 19th century waltzes but brass bands sadly seem to play these much less in the last few years.) Oh dear. There is nothing wrong with the music described above, of course, but it does rather reinforce the perception that, as some enlightened souls are trying to drag brass bands, kicking and screaming, into the twentieth century, the rest of the musical world is about to step into the twenty-first. I'm not suggesting that we should be playing 'Now That's What I Call Atonal Music 94' on the bandstands this summer, but most bands will, I think, be doing *some* items which the Victorians would not recognise - e.g. Gershwin, Berlin, John Williams, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gordon Langford, lighter items from our 'home-grown' composers such as Philip Sparke, Goff Richards, and so on. Not *too* radical, I think. Richard Cookson EEb Bass Besses o' th' Barn Best wishes Alec ________________________ Alec Gallagher alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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