Klarinet Archive - Posting 000375.txt from 1998/08

From: Jacqueline Eastwood <eastwooj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 11 Aug 1998 08:15:03 -0000 Issue 384
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:05:59 -0400

On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 Cheddar99@-----.com wrote:

> Thanks! I read the article and it was very helpful. I feel really good about
> my audition now, becuase I've done a lot of the things suggested in other
> ways, like after I visited the music school and had interviews with the people
> in charge of each department, I wrote them all thank you letters and things
> like that. I guess for the scales I'll send an e-mail to the Admissions person
> and see what she suggests... I just wasn't sure about doing that before
> because I thought they might think I was, well, stupid or something. I just
> didn't think I should do it. thanks!
>
> Karen D
> Los Altos, Ca
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Words of advice for auditions and life in general: don't be afraid to
ask! If you need clarification to get something important done right,
people will respect you more for having the guts and common sense to ask
questions than if you barrelled ahead blindly and did it all wrong.

I find this crops up in my work a lot -- accounting requires precision and
accuracy. Training people in years past (and probably again later this
year) has been frustrating when they are afraid to ask for instructions.
I end up spending twice the amount of time to correct a mistake than it
would have taken me to simply do the job myself in the first place!

OK, I'm getting down now........

Jacqueline Eastwood
University of Arizona/Arizona Opera Orchestra
*and now* Double Ring Cycle Survivor
eastwooj@-----.edu

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