IT SEEMS THAT THE OVERALL QUALITY HAS DECLINED . . .
All the more reason to send your best to the Festival to raise the level of work.
It
would please me no end if last year’s Festival was never better than the
next. The way we get the very best work to the Festival is by
having the best entered and by having the best faculty seeing it, responding
to it, and making administrative decisions about it on Regional governing
councils. If don’t lead and
you pull away, your voice cannot be part of the process and the quality will
certainly suffer.