Isn’t it stimulating to know that these lines are being read from Santiago de Chile to Vancouver, from Melbourne to Singapore, from Beijing to Reykjavik, from Moscow to Madrid, from Tehran to Cape Town, from Rome to London, from Cuba to Stockholm and from Paris to Budapest etc? And all because thousands of brass players like you and me have understood that in this way they are helping us to respect one another, tolerate the differences and generally raise the level of musical knowledge and consciousness in the artistic activities of our family of instruments.
Your letters of encouragement, so friendly and so numerous, constantly strengthen our will to continue our work and to make BRASS BULLETIN an ever more impeccable and effective reference work, source of pleasure and interest, and means of communication.
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Our new colleagues:
Alessandro De Santis
Alessandro De Santis is the man who came here this summer from Rome to plead — with fervour and conviction — the case for an Italian translation. We were won over. He will be our permanent contact in Italy and will undertake some of the translation.
Carlo Arfinengo
The distinguished trumpeter from Turin has been so good as to accept the onerous post of translator. We are honoured that this man — so cultured, and so knowledgeable in the brass field — has undertaken this task and we know he will ensure the best possible quality.
Adolpho Vela
Mr. Vela teaches Spanish at the College in Bulle and has already demonstrated his skill and commitment in producing our Spanish translations. The fact that he lives close to our offices greatly simplifies matters.
We welcome all these new colleagues! They are the craftsmen who will forge our communication network.
Soon we will also have correspondents in Spain and the Latin American countries too.
Happy New Year!
On behalf of this new team, as well as the previous one, I send you all, my dear readers, our best wishes for the New Year. I hope you “deck the halls with music jolly” — happy and serious, strong and gentle, for the good of mankind and peace in the world!
Jean-Pierre Mathez