Editorial

A careful observation of the number and the standard of activities available to brass players to maintain and improve their position in the music world leads to an unequivocal diagnosis: our musicians are realising their ambitions with eagerness and enthusiasm. All over the world we are seeing the start and the development of centres where brass players can learn new things, where new contacts can be formed, and where the artistic currents are taking shape which will carry our venerable instruments into the 21st century (marking more than 500 years for trumpets and trombones, 300 for horns and, soon, 200 for tubas).

It is against this background that the actions of someone like Giordano Fermi, in an Italy now enjoying another kind of renaissance, takes on its full importance (see page 40).

BRASS BULLETIN is taking an enthusiastic part in this welcome artistic development. This is the reason why we have taken an important decision on widening our circulation. Starting with no. 60 (December 1987) we will supply a complete translation into Italian and Spanish of all the articles so that the very many brass players in Italy, Spain and Latin America can have access to a more and more complete source of information as well as an opportunity to express their point of view. We know that they have been waiting impatiently for us to open up this channel of communication and several thousand of them will now join our readership.