Re: Most underrated orchestra


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Posted by Joe S. on July 05, 1999 at 18:00:19:

In Reply to: Most underrated orchestra posted by Aaron on July 04, 1999 at 22:16:18:

I believe that as more and more people like Mr. Lamb (and many more of you) graduate from very rigorous performance degree programs, the quality of the performance levels of orchestras across the U.S. and the world (regardless of the individual local budgets) will continue to get higher and higher and become more and more similar in excellence.

Supply and demand sort of dicates this. As long as they ain't making too many more orchestras but they keep making more and more superb performers and conductors, the performance level of all professional orchestras just about has to rise, and to levels that will eventually (if the trend continues) become just about indistiguishable in quality from an AA budget orchestra to an AAAAA budget orchestra. The old Chicago
Symphony tuba audition discussion (below) backs this up, I think. How much "worse" would the Chicago Symphony sound today if they had selected 18-year-old Tony Kniffen, rather than recruiting the very-experienced Mr. Pokorny...?

The only possible variable in this equation of equivalency of quality from bottom to top budget orchestras: ENOUGH SUPERB FIDDLE PLAYERS TO GO AROUND


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