I have often been misquoted in the press, to my embarrassment. I think we
need to be very careful not to be seen to be unsupportive in the public eye,
and this is after all a relatively public list.
Helen
----- Original Message -----
From: "lisa ridley" <lisaridley6...@hotmail.com>
To: <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 6:59 AM
I'd like to share with you all some quotes from an article in the
Newcastle Journal newspaper about Jessica Lamb. The paper has an
article entitled "school girl piper Jessica a star in the making"
I picked them up and within no time at all I was playing a tune."
I could play by ear and I just took to them straight away. From there I
got better and better and now Im so proud of myself. Im brilliant and
Kathryn Tickell has high hopes for me."
Some of you may be aware of this 14 year old precocious nay
dillousional child. This is the child who has been repeatedly given
feedback by pipers who ARE brilliant and has ignored it; year on year
she has had the same feedback yet listening to the video attached to
the article is still ignoring it. Chris Ormston & Adrian Schofield have
both given this girl advice but clearly she feels she knows better than
those who are recognised by us all as true masters of the pipes. This
girl has a long,long way to go before she can claim to be "brilliant".
The comments of her mother (the typical pushy mother) show where the
girl gets it from - "Jessicas mum Catherine Lamb, 42, a nursery nurse,
said: As soon as Jessica picked up the Northumbrian pipes she was a
little genius. She could play a tune straight away. We just knew she
was going to be fantastic at it, she was a natural.""
The absurdity of the whole article is summed up by the papers
suggestion that the northumbrian pipes were an unknown instrument until
K Tickell came on the scene..................sums up their naiivety
really!
[1]http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/04/11/
schoolgirl-piper-jessica-a-star-in-the-making-61634-23362451/
LR
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2. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/
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