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Editorial

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Editorial

Happy holidays

This is the times for everyone to come up with new ideas, take fresh aim, think about the new artistic season — prepare for the future!

To all of you who have just finished a long season of concerts and/or teaching — BRASS BULLETIN wishes you a calm and peaceful period of dolce far niente. The youngsters will be off to seminars all over the world in the hope of gleaning new experience, making new friends and finding new influences; for them this is the season for first discovering the world.

As for us, we will see you again at the end of September for our next issue, with which — as always — we will take the greatest care.

Appeal for mutual aid

BRASS BULLETIN feels it must increase the proportion of its pages in colour (it’s so much nicer!) as well as building up its current editorial and administrative team, now increasingly overworked.

We would like to be able to offer you ever better and visually more attractive information to sustain or stimulate your passion for music.

BRASS BULLETIN has managed to set up an exceptional network of communication in 92 countries! Help us to develop it further, to nurture and sustain it, you who are already an integral part of it.

The only way — solidarity

Each of you, dear readers¹, should be able to find at least one new subscriber; a member of your section, a talented pupil, the institution where you work (orchestra, music college etc.), the society you belong to (brass band, wind band) or the other members of your brass ensemble.

Thank you for heeding this urgent appeal and for responding to it positively and spontaneously.

On the next page you will find two options:

a) a subscription card for you to have filled in by the new subscriber you yourself have found

b) a card where you can note the addresses of people (pupils, colleagues, friends) who might subscribe and whom you would advise us to contact.

Don’t forget to add your name in box C. For every (definite) new subscriber you find we will send you a little surprise to show our gratitude. Important: don’t forget to show what instrument you play, so that our surprise can be appropriate.

J.-P. Mathez

¹ Not all our readers are subscribers — far from it (each copy is read, on average, by five people). So, if you are one of the other four, take the decision — take out your own subscription.

Brass Bulletin 58, II / 1987 pages 7–8

All content is protected by copyright © Brass Bulletin 1987–2026

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