Klarinet Archive - Posting 000634.txt from 1999/02

From: "Jason L. Cable" <cablej@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Competition of players of various States
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:53:22 -0500

Actually the school hosting the District Conference gets the most entries
into the conference.

Jason

Jason L. Cable
Undergrad. Music Ed. Major (Oboe)
Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA
cablej@-----.edu
http://users.penn.com/~cabes/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Bush [mailto:rbushidioglot@-----.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 9:25 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Competition of players of various States
>
>
> "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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