Klarinet Archive - Posting 000644.txt from 1998/08

From: "Mark A. Bradley" <markb@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Conservatory prices
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 02:26:00 -0400

Mark Charette wrote:

> The answer is "yes". Depends on the conservatory & liberal arts
college.
> Public liberal arts colleges tend to be cheaper, but then again Curtis

> is dirt cheap.

I guess I'll have to look around then. I'm only a sophomore so I have
time. I'd love to go to Curtis, but I don't think I would be quite good
enough to get in...A horn player who is a friend of mine will audition
but since they only let one horn in a year, from worldwide auditions the
chances are slim. The price is right though.

David C. Blumberg wrote:

> The cost of being employed or not. Depends on what your main focus is,
and
> how good you really are at Clarinet. Here's some numbers from the Wall

> Street Journal that I read on the flight to the Columbus ClarFest
(pretty
> Ironic huh?).

> "Each year, more than 13,000 (thirteen thousand) hopefuls graduate
with
> performance degrees, but annually, fewer than 150 (one hundred fifty)
> symphony jobs come open".

> That is from page A14 of the July 7, 1998 Wall St. Journal.
> Written by Gwendolyn Freed, editor of Chamber Music Magazine,
Minneapolis.

> Are those numbers sobering enough??

Hmm, Maybe I should keep my options a little more open. I would like to
play in a professional orchestra like every other aspiring young
musician but I guess I shouldn't limit myself to that. Thank you for
the information.

Any thoughts from those who have gone to conservatories?

Mark
markb@-----.com

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