This may have been true in the UK many years ago but at the higher level of brass band playing it is no longer the case. There have been very many "modern" works written for the genre and most of the top section bands include such pieces in their repertoire.
At the small town level, yes, this is still true but at small town level lots of things go on which serious musician bandsmen might wish not to be associated with. Amongst the list of high quality british bands, I am surprised no-one has mentioned Besses Band who rehearse about five minutes drive from my home and whose ex-solo cornet, Brian Mather I am proud to have as a colleague at our music school. Cheers, Lawrence On 2 July 2011 17:13, Joseph Dymit <joedy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings! > > > The Brass Band community is strangely conservative in it's musical taste. > You may experience a bit of resistance to anything 'avant garde'. I think > this is a function of long tradition and a universal respect for the > accomplishments of our ancestors! > -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
