Klarinet Archive - Posting 000907.txt from 1998/04

From: Hat NYC 62 <HatNYC62@-----.com>
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V2 #78
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 06:05:28 -0400

>>Of course, if this exclusionary practice is common among full-time
symphonies now (which I refuse to believe until shown the contrary), and I
would love to know which other orchestras do this, then as teachers we
should advise our students to make "creative" resumes, and pull as many
back-door, "old-boys-club" strings as we know of every time we send a
student out for a first-round audition into these old-boy-clubs.<<

The only major symphony I know of that does not weed out candidates based on
resume or tape is the Chicago Symphony. Virtually all other major orchestras
require a tape or simply reject candidates. These include:

Cleveland Orchestra
Boston Symphony
Baltimore Symphony
Metropolitan Opera
Kennedy Center Opera
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Dallas Symphony
San Francisco Symphony

If you advise your students to make 'creative' resumes, you'll eventually want
that process to include removing your name. Personnel Mangagers do talk to
each other!

   
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