Re: Re: Limited # Invited for Singapore?


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Posted by bloke on March 04, 2004 at 10:04:32:

In Reply to: Re: Limited # Invited for Singapore? posted by craig on March 04, 2004 at 01:39:21:

Perhaps orchestra audition committees are seeking refuge out of desperation. Could it be that the endless parade of the clueless (I'm not labeling individuals, but only guessing at motives) has prompted a new routine of filtering down of the parade from 250 applicants to 25? The National Symphony apparently did this - without doing so overtly.

Obviously, from what members of audition committees have reported to us in the past publically and privately (occasionally on this forum), either the vast majority of studio teachers don't understand the excerpts well enough to teach them...or the vast majority of students don't understand what they are being taught.

Possibly, if routinely 200 of 250 applicants were deemed "worthy" - once heard, more committees would be more willing to sit through all of their presentations.


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