Klarinet Archive - Posting 000246.txt from 1999/02

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Women and orchestras
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 04:32:33 -0500

I hope they make a better job of it than seems to have been done with
bird species.
rjs

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Mark Charette wrote:

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