Klarinet Archive - Posting 000617.txt from 1999/02

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Competition of players of various States
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:25:27 -0500

"Paulette W. Gulakowski" wrote:
>
> Nah, they do it like a football player draft - what you said and then
> "I'll trade you a trumpet for your bass clarinet and a future player to
> be named..." etc! The size of the band/or school district determines how
> many players each band director gets to send.
> <]:o) with tongue only partially in cheek.
> Paulette
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:27:40 -0500 "Jason L. Cable" <cablej@-----.edu>
> writes:
> >I know for sure that in PA District 2 names are drawn from a hat as to
> >who
> >goes to districts. It is us to the individual band director to submit
> >the
> >names of the students he thinks fit to go to districts. Then, the
> >names are
> >basically chosen at random.
> >
> >Jason
> >
> >Jason L. Cable
> >Undergrad. Music Ed. Major (Oboe)
> >Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA
> >cablej@-----.edu
> >http://users.penn.com/~cabes/
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ben Stutzman [mailto:benstutzman@-----.net]
> >> Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 3:59 PM
> >> To: klarinet@-----.org
> >> Subject: Re: [kl] Competition of players of various States
> >>
> >>
> >> I definitely agree. My teacher says that my district (District 7 in
> >PA)
> >> has about the same level players as our Region band. I could have
> >gone
> >> to Regionals if I were in a different District. Because of the
> >> variation, saying you made states doesn't mean a whole lot. It
> >makes it
> >> hard to compare with someone not in your own area.
> >>
> >> ________
> >> Ben Stutzman
> >> benstutzman@-----.net

It's all very interesting. If they were to hold blind auditions or taped
auditions for all who wanted to try out and then had an independent
committee choose while also keeping in mind the required
instrumentation, the chips would probably fall into a much different
pattern. There might be some schools that would have a lot of
representation and then there might be some schools that just wouldn't
meet the standard and have few or no representatives. Of course that
would be putting some real pressure on the band directors and their
programs wouldn't it?

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