Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 2002/10

From: w9wright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: RE: [kl] Marching band --- not what I expected
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 14:27:49 -0400

<><> Gary=A0Van=A0Cott wrote:
These groups [flag teams, etc] have their own competitions where they
perform with recorded music. Better they come and listen to a regular
concert.

I'm biting my tongue a little bit, Gary.

Certainly it's true that none of us can have everything we want.
Resources are finite, and the best skills attract the best resources.
Many of us must settle for second best because we're not 'The Best'.

But the comment that I've quoted does have a flavor of "Let them eat
cake." I can think of one example where even the world's best perform
to recorded music (Olympic ice skating), but in general if performing to
recorded music was as good as live music, then all of us would do our
recitals to Music Minus One recordings.

I heartily recommend Neil's post in this thread just a few minutes ago.
He said it better than I did.

Regards,
Bill

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