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Editorial

Editorial

On the threshold of another new year I would like to thank all our readers, advertisers and fellow workers for their faithfulness. To this I add my warmest personal wishes and hope that 1985 will be a positive and fruitful year for all of you. May music unite us across all frontiers.

In this issue, for the first time, you will find several pages in colour. This is the beginning of a scheme to introduce more and more colour so as to make our magazine more attractive and more lively. Our Composer Presentation Supplement, on the other hand, will be discontinued in 1985.

May 1985 will be our fiftieth issue. It feels as if we have been here for ever! This will be a splendid jubilee edition — not to be missed!

Don’t forget to renew your subscription (if you are hesitating, write and tell us why; we will try to put it right). We have not changed our prices and we still have our special rate for two-year renewal.

If you like BRASS BULLETIN, write and tell us that too and don’t forget that it is thanks to you that this magazine exists and improves. Help us to find still more subscribers. Try to find at least one for 1985 or give a subscription as a gift*. Thank you!

* If you are a subscriber and you give one or more “gift” subscriptions, we will charge you the student rate for these. Just send us the name(s) of the intended recipient(s), not forgetting to add your own name so that we may bill you...

Brass Bulletin 48, IV / 1984 page 3

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