Klarinet Archive - Posting 000637.txt from 1999/02

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Competition of players of various States
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:53:25 -0500

Jason,
PMEA Districts 10 and 11, ever since before I was in high school 30+ years
ago, have auditioned (on a standard piece of solo lit) for district band,
orchestra and chorus. Regional and state levels are determined by a
composite of the original audition score and a re-audition at each festival
(the re-audition at the district festival helps determine who goes to
regional, etc...). The re-auditions (on the actual performance music in the
folders) were actually instituted after my high school years to try to
ensure that the players would be prepared for the rehearsals when they came
to the festivals, but serve also to give a kid whose original audition was a
little under par a chance to improve his/her chance to continue to the next
level.
The "system" you're describing in District 2 is one that might be useful
if there were VERY FEW schools in the district, all the directors knew and
trusted each other, and the concern existed that, if auditions were held,
not enough kids would actually take them and it would become hard to fill
the ensembles. Is District 2 very small (say, half a dozen or fewer schools)
or in an area of very sparse population such that the pool of players who
would come to an audition is too small to make the process worthwhile? Where
is District 2?

Apologies to those on the list who find this off-topic. It probably is,
and if other list members prefer, we could continue the discussion
privately. As a PMEA member and teacher in a Southeastern PA school
district, I find Jason's information surprising and interesting.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason L. Cable <cablej@-----.edu>
Subject: RE: [kl] Competition of players of various States

>That is PMEA District 2. When I got to college people from District 7 et.
>al. told me that they had to audition to go to districts. I found that
odd.
>
>Jason
>
>Jason L. Cable
>Undergrad. Music Ed. Major (Oboe)
>Mansfield University, Mansfield, PA
>cablej@-----.edu
>http://users.penn.com/~cabes/
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Karl Krelove [mailto:kkrelove@-----.com]
>> Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 6:19 PM
>> To: klarinet@-----.org
>> Subject: Re: [kl] Competition of players of various States
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Jason L. Cable <cablej@-----.edu>
>> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>> Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 5:27 PM
>> Subject: RE: [kl] Competition of players of various States
>>
>>
>> >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, are you talking about a PMEA district? This is so
>> uncharacteristic of
>> anything PMEA does it leaves me thinking that this is some other
>> organization.
>>
>> Karl Krelove
>>

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