Dear Sheila,
It is a pity you can't take advantage of the course after being the
most persistent in asking for it. With Susan moving up to the NE it
would have been perfect if she had taken it on for the Society but she
decided for her own reasons to do it as a private event. It disappoints
me that she did not take advantage of the Society's financial and
advertising support.
Colin
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From: bri...@aol.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:20
Subject: [NSP] the piping course
I really hate to prolong this discussion, but just want to point out
that in the
mid '90s I persistently begged and pleaded, in person, by e-mail and?by
snail
mail, ?with the NPS chairman and committee members to organize a
week-long
piping course such as Susan is now doing, and was told it was quite out
of the
question, for numerous reasons.? For the two (?) years that the
Northumberland
(Northumbria?) Festival took place, it would have been an
ideal?combination.???
As it was, there were all manner of wonderfully interesting events
taking place
in the evenings, but absolutely nothing during the day.??Dave Burleigh
and
Maureen Davison could not have been more helpful with suggestions for
places to
visit and things to do to make valuable use of the time, and for?most
generous
hospitality.???No one was interested in playing ?a couple of duets -
probably
fair enough - you don't just welcome with open arms every stray who
lands on you
doorstep,?but finally I was put in contact w!
ith Lance Robson, who could not have been friendlier.? And Colin Ross
was most
helpful in fettling the drone reeds he had installed a few years
previously and
which by then needed some further TLC.
At that point in time there were no other pipers in Western
Pennsylvania, and
there were fairly cheap, direct flights from USA to England.??And now,
ironically, over a decade later,? there is this course, which by all
accounts is
excellent, but air fares are much more expensive, there are no direct
flights to
UK from our local airport, and I have become so involved with musical
activities
in this area this autumn that I can't leave.?
Good luck, Susan.?? It is great that you have this course, now in its
2nd
year.?? Long may it continue.?? Hopefully I'll be better
organized?another year
and be able to join in.? And how would we all know about it if it were
not
mentioned on the Dartmouth NSP list??
Keep on smiling and keep on piping, (and, yes, there are now a couple
of good
pipers living close by, and I do play the pipes with lots of other
instruments)
Sheila???????????
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