Klarinet Archive - Posting 000185.txt from 1999/02

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:11:26 -0500

From: DHmorgan@-----.com>
>Ah, but here's the problem. They've done studies that show that even
in
>double blind situations, evaluators will rank the performance of people
of
>their race and gender HIGHER than other races and genders. The
examples I'm
>thinking of have to do with writing, but I wouldn't be surprised if it
weren't
>the same with music.

I would hesitate greatly before making that jump. _Possibly_ it may have
something to do with a teaching tradition common to a nationality or
area, but it probably has nothing to do with race per se. If I were to
audition in, let's say, Germany, they may be looking for stylings and
musicality foreign to what I've been taught. I wouldn't blame race on
it.
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