Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 1999/02

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 22:29:56 -0500

From: DHmorgan@-----.com>
>Even if it is the least important factor in
>influencing a musician's playing style, if such differences COULD BE
PROVEN,
>MORE OFTEN THAN NOT to trigger bias in the audition process, even in a
double-
>blind scenario, then that would be really unfortunate for the people
being
>systematically excluded, wouldn't it?

I don't understand why it would be unfortunate. They'd be excluded on
playing style. That's all - not based on anything but style. The purpose
of the audition, no less, assuming basic competency.

There was an article recently in SciAm (within the last year) on race.
Race is hardly quantifiable by skin color or physical measurements - DNA
_is_ being used as a new classification method. It is reputed to be much
more reliable in showing similar groupings than the older methods. If
your definition of race is based skin color, then it's a very different
definition than mine.
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