Klarinet Archive - Posting 000934.txt from 1998/04

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: klarinet-digest V2 #78
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 19:18:58 -0400

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Jonathan Cohler wrote:
> Tape is a different story. That is a valid audition of a person's playing
> ability. I was discussing orchestras which exclude people based on resume
> alone. Which is completely meaningless. A piece of paper tells you
> nothing of ones playing ability in orchestra or otherwise.

Tape is definitely not valid! For those of us who screen them all the
time for faculty searches and auditions for our local symphony, we know
the editing and substituting that goes on. We are even aware of a teacher
playing for his student on a tape. Resumes may be completely meaningless
to Jonathan, but they say a great deal - not only about a person's
experience and as a legal representation of what they have done, they also
show the person's personality - through the form and structure. I wonder,
if resumes are so meaningless, why do businesses continue to require them?

> I don't believe your list above is correct. I know, for example, that the
> Boston Symphony hears people who want to audition.

How do you know this? Are you basing it on only your experience or on
something published and available to all of us?

> Which of those exclude based on resume alone?

Well, you are the one who states the list is incorrect, you tell us!

Roger Garrett
IWU

   
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