Champ/First : Broseley Brass MK

[TheMusicMan]

Weston-Super-Mare – Own Choice Contest - 2007

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Section Entered : Championship/First
National Grading : First Section
Order of Play : 7
Musical Director : Paul Fensom
Chosen Test Piece : Journey into Freedom, Ball
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Solid opening, very bright and articulate, very impressive. Nice muted cornets - it works well. Horns excellent in triplets... shot notes spot on... :tup

Maintaining a high standard of playing in this opening movement, the short 'concert march' section is sprightly... very well played. I hear superb Flugel in there somewhere too!! Very impressive playing...

Super work on Soprano on semi's... you never falter... the band remain totally together in their playing with no issues at all thus far. This is really good stuff... cornets on high runs are superb... as are horns on triplet runs... what a fantastic section this was... well done.

Cornet solo nicely played, very expressive... I like the gentle backing given by the back row. Soprano takes over smoothly too... you are all in tune with each other (and I don't just mean in the intonation sense!!)... lovely Eb Bass... and your Steven Mead lookalike (from the back of the hall anyway) does well on Euph (no offense meant sir) :)

Nice Flugel again in 3/4 section before accel... Unison cornets very well played indeed... awesome playing, and you simply must have rehearsed this numerous times to get that played so accurately together - well done. This is running along smoothly and into the Waltz section is sublime. The balance is excellent... gorgeous sound too! Great Bass work... and when horns then cornets come in the balance is maintained... this listener is enjoying this a lot. I am not the man in the box, but if I were, you'd be up there.

Impressive performance... I'd predict a top placing somewhere.... thanks.



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[Di]

We have offered our opinion of the bands performance based on the music, and on what we hear; and not on the technicalities of notes and other musical markings in the score etc.

Please don't be offended if you don't agree with what we write. This will simply be a combination of a report of our opinions on how we felt the performance went on the day, and of what's happening at the contest.

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[Scottyeuphoria]

Many thanks for your kind comments. We were pretty happy with the way the performance panned out too. And I think we're fairly pleased with 4th place aswell given the standard of the competing bands.

It was only our second outing to Weston but I think it's going to be an annual visit for us in future. Very well run once again, friendly atmosphere and some excellent bands to test ourselves against. Plus the sun was shining this year.

Only one criticism really; having abstained from alcohol for the day and then having to go on last it was a tad disappointing to find the bar closed as we came off stage :frown:

If anyone was wondering why there were only a couple of our members in the hall for the results - the rest of us had set off to the pub for a well earned pint - or six !

Very much hope to be back in Weston again this time next year!

Dave
(The Steven Mead lookalike on Euph) - no offence taken by the way

[TheMusicMan]

Haha, nicely taken Dave - thanks for the good spirit. Glad you appreciated the comments.