midwalesman
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Well...u have a point!!
True, that concert was well balanced and the music chosen wisely and yes it does become tiring when ur expected to play a piece at every concert and yes old cheese gets moldy!!
As for the programme itself, the Lohengrin was a transcription if I'm right was at least 40 years old and the others ( except the Elvis ) are much the same. The Floral Dance, Derek Broadbent's Floral dance is 26 years old and the tune itself has existed in the folk music scene a lot longer.
I don't mind playing cheese, audiences on the whole like cheese, as much as I would like to vary a programme more with serious music cheese wins everytime.
Just looking back at transcriptions, those were the test pieces of the 1800's and early 1900's and we still play them now. Vinter wrote pieces for contests, i.e Spectrum, but how often do bands play his pieces ? Let alone pieces which have a universal musical language such as Phillip Sparke.
When I suggested a programme of original music I did not mean 4 contest pieces...2 would be stretching it. What I meant was music by say Peter Graham that are actually written for the brass band and not ripped off from films or the musical mainstream.
I appreciate that people come to band concerts to be entertained but do the players ever get entertained ? And if the players don't get entertained or kept interested, does it not show in the music itself ?
True, that concert was well balanced and the music chosen wisely and yes it does become tiring when ur expected to play a piece at every concert and yes old cheese gets moldy!!
As for the programme itself, the Lohengrin was a transcription if I'm right was at least 40 years old and the others ( except the Elvis ) are much the same. The Floral Dance, Derek Broadbent's Floral dance is 26 years old and the tune itself has existed in the folk music scene a lot longer.
I don't mind playing cheese, audiences on the whole like cheese, as much as I would like to vary a programme more with serious music cheese wins everytime.
Just looking back at transcriptions, those were the test pieces of the 1800's and early 1900's and we still play them now. Vinter wrote pieces for contests, i.e Spectrum, but how often do bands play his pieces ? Let alone pieces which have a universal musical language such as Phillip Sparke.
When I suggested a programme of original music I did not mean 4 contest pieces...2 would be stretching it. What I meant was music by say Peter Graham that are actually written for the brass band and not ripped off from films or the musical mainstream.
I appreciate that people come to band concerts to be entertained but do the players ever get entertained ? And if the players don't get entertained or kept interested, does it not show in the music itself ?
