I've heard better (most of you) and worse (I do listen to myself, after
all).
While I realise that many of you will know her and have heard her play for
real, that Youtube recording is such bad quality I think my dog would have
sounded better.
Are we suggesting that she is (a) a bad musician, (b) she doesn't play the
pipes in the correct manner - ie as they were designed to be played, (c) she
"does her own thing" with them as some others do (ie not traditional)?
I'd ignore mother's comments. I have yet to hear a mother say anything
adverse about their child - even if they are really BAD. You kid is always a
genius - it comes with parenthood :)
I'm presuming, from the comments made, that, although she has been given
good advice she has chosen to ignore it (rather than not be adept enough to
follow it) and, consequently, been marked down at competition level and play
as she thinks fit (reminds me of comments passed on someone else mentioned
in the same article).
Excuse the silly questions but, living as a hermit on a small, isolated
mountain and not having had contact with another piper for some time, I
sometimes worry about the vehemence which greets some players at times.
It is worrying when some pipers seem to get all the publicity - especially
when they are more out of the main stream - but maybe these pipers (because
they are doing their own thing) seek it out more to get their "style" more
widely recognised?
Certainly, here in the NW, very few people are aware of the NSP but those
that are generally know only one name.
I have to agree with Helen that, on a public list, it can sound like sour
grapes (I know it's not so don't shout).
Yes, there very pushy parents and they often do their children no good at
all as they make enemies and won't take any criticism of their wonder
child - to the detriment of the child, of course.
Alas, the general public go by what they hear and pay little attention to
the skills that should be there (musically speaking - remember Roy Castle
playing the hosepipe and the response he got?).
The general public just isn't aware of what should be done and what
shouldn't.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "lisa ridley" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "pipers list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:45 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Re:
Apologies, I was under the impression that the pipers list was a forum
for self expression and discussion. I was not aware there was a
required censorship in case "the truth" about these pretenders reaches
the "public" domain.
The Newcastle Journal is a publication with a weekly circulation of 289
000, and hence a VERY public forum, and I doubt this reporter stumbled
upon this story herself but rather that it was fed to her. The
Bellingham show is also a public event and I have witnessed first hand
the attempts by the child's family to compromise the integrity of the
competition by niggling at the judges and making loud stage whispers
from the audience "you were the best - you would have won if it he
(Chris Ormston) hadn't been judging". I'm told that Adrian Schofield
was given an even more torrid time the previous year. Such behaviour
is not worthy of our support.
LR
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:48:33 +1200
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: [NSP] Re:
>
> 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" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> 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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