I have no opinion whatsoever on the truth of the assertions made in
this recent posting.
However, I believe it is indecent for a child to be publically
criticised in this forum.
Francis Wood
On 13 Apr 2009, at 10:45, lisa ridley wrote:
Apologies, I was under the impression that the pipers list was a
forum
for self expression and discussion. I was not aware there was a
required censorship in case "the truth" about these pretenders
reaches
the "public" domain.
The Newcastle Journal is a publication with a weekly circulation
of 289
000, and hence a VERY public forum, and I doubt this reporter
stumbled
upon this story herself but rather that it was fed to her. The
Bellingham show is also a public event and I have witnessed first
hand
the attempts by the child's family to compromise the integrity of
the
competition by niggling at the judges and making loud stage whispers
from the audience "you were the best - you would have won if it he
(Chris Ormston) hadn't been judging". I'm told that Adrian
Schofield
was given an even more torrid time the previous year. Such
behaviour
is not worthy of our support.
LR
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:48:33 +1200
To: lisaridley6...@hotmail.com; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
From: helen.ca...@paradise.net.nz
Subject: [NSP] Re:
I have often been misquoted in the press, to my embarrassment. I
think we
need to be very careful not to be seen to be unsupportive in the
public eye,
and this is after all a relatively public list.
Helen
----- Original Message -----
From: "lisa ridley" <lisaridley6...@hotmail.com>
To: <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 6:59 AM
I'd like to share with you all some quotes from an article in the
Newcastle Journal newspaper about Jessica Lamb. The paper has an
article entitled "school girl piper Jessica a star in the making"
I picked them up and within no time at all I was playing a tune."
I could play by ear and I just took to them straight away. From
there I
got better and better and now Im so proud of myself. Im brilliant
and
Kathryn Tickell has high hopes for me."
Some of you may be aware of this 14 year old precocious nay
dillousional child. This is the child who has been repeatedly given
feedback by pipers who ARE brilliant and has ignored it; year on
year
she has had the same feedback yet listening to the video attached
to
the article is still ignoring it. Chris Ormston & Adrian Schofield
have
both given this girl advice but clearly she feels she knows better
than
those who are recognised by us all as true masters of the pipes.
This
girl has a long,long way to go before she can claim to be
"brilliant".
The comments of her mother (the typical pushy mother) show where
the
girl gets it from - "Jessicas mum Catherine Lamb, 42, a nursery
nurse,
said: As soon as Jessica picked up the Northumbrian pipes she was a
little genius. She could play a tune straight away. We just knew
she
was going to be fantastic at it, she was a natural.""
The absurdity of the whole article is summed up by the papers
suggestion that the northumbrian pipes were an unknown instrument
until
K Tickell came on the scene..................sums up their naiivety
really!
[1]http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/04/11/
schoolgirl-piper-jessica-a-star-in-the-making-61634-23362451/
LR
__________________________________________________________________
Share your photos with Windows Live Photos Free. [2]Try it Now! --
References
1.
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/04/11/sch
oolgirl-piper-jessica-a-star-in-the-making-61634-23362451/
2. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/
To get on or off this list see list information at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
__________________________________________________________________
Windows Live Messenger just got better. [1]Find out more! --
References
1. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665230/direct/01/
