[TPIN] Taps
Ellis Workman
elw at workman-net.org
Thu Jun 1 19:51:18 CDT 2006
There's a mislabeled theme and variation based of that tune
in my Arban, pp 245-245.
-Ellis
> Fantasy on "God save the Queen." This is a piece of music played on
> cornet.
> Is it *kosher* to mention it on TPIN?
> Jim :)
>
>
> On 6/1/06, Scott Carson <carsond at ohio.edu> wrote:
>>
>> > On 1 Jun 2006, at 12:51, Joel Eymard wrote:
>> >
>> >> TPIN means "Trumpet Players' International Network".
>> >>
>> >> So this is an INTERNATIONAL list. According to TPIN info page:
>> >> "The topics of discussions are quite varied, including such topics
>> >> as pedagogy, equipment (of course), performance practice,
>> >> recordings, improvisation, famous and not-so-famous performers,
>> >> literature and others. Instruments and accessories have been
>> >> bought and sold on the network and many collegial friendships have
>> >> been formed."
>> >>
>> >> I left Rec.music.makers.trumpet because I was upset by discussions
>> >> about religion. I would not like to find here something similar.
>> >> So please let us talk only about trumpet (or cornet, flugel,
>> >> picc...), bearing in mind that TPIN members live in any country.
>> >
>> > With all due respect, the allegedly "offensive post" was not a
>> > "discussion about religion", it was merely a post in which the
>> > author of the post expressed a wish that had religious and, some
>> > would say, patriotic, sentiments.
>> >
>> > While I agree that TPIN is, first and foremost, a forum for the
>> > discussion of the trumpet and its repertoire, I think we must also
>> > be adults about the fact that there are other people out there in
>> > the world--especially in the "international" world that is being so
>> > handily bandied about--whose views and attitudes are different from
>> > our own, and they are free to hold and to express those views
>> > whether or not their views make us happy, just so long as they
>> > don't use this forum as an instrument for the promotion of those
>> > views. As the info page states, "many collegial friendships have
>> > been formed". It will not be possible to form anything like a
>> > collegial friendship if people are not permitted to get to know a
>> > little bit about the personalities of the other posters, that is,
>> > if folks are not even permitted so much as to mention what their
>> > personal beliefs happen to be.
>> >
>> > It is a delicious irony that the same folks who find it offensive
>> > that someone would mention his religious belief and patriotism--in
>> > passing, mind you, and not at all as part of some sort of
>> > jingoistic reproach to the rest of us, such as the one we were
>> > treated to earlier today from the UK--are so willing to enforce
>> > their own peculiar subjective beliefs on everyone else, for no
>> > other reason than to maintain their own personal comfort level.
>> >
>> > To those folks who are offended and find it uncomfortable to be in
>> > the company of those whose beliefs are different from their own, I
>> > would make two suggestions: first, try to read just those parts of
>> > the post that are about the trumpet and its repertoire--presumably
>> > posts in which there is no such content will not be permitted. If
>> > you cannot do that, then try to be mature if you happen to
>> > accidentally read something that you don't personally agree with.
>> > Second, try to remember that not everyone will find your beliefs
>> > and attitudes all that congenial either, but we tolerate you having
>> > them and expressing them anyway.
>> >
>> > Scott Carson
>> > http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~carsond
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