Klarinet Archive - Posting 000647.txt from 1999/02

From: "Jason L. Cable" <cablej@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Competition of players of various States
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:53:35 -0500

I must say the same. I was a student of PMEA District 2 last year and the
year before. The district is quite large. Erie is included in it. I am
not sure exactly of how they pick, but do know that it is a TOTALLY random
process. I was chosen to go to districts after only me 4th month of playing
oboe. I had played clarinet for 7 years before that. BTW I was horrible.
The day you get to districts everyone is auditioned on their district music.
USUALLY the top people in each part advance to regions, BUT this is not
always the case. Sometimes, ie. oboe section, they pick the top two players
from the section to go on. The regional Eb clarinet is taken from either
district 2 or 3 for region 2? band. The best Eb does not necessarily go.
The 2 districts take turns sending one. That is all I know.

Jason

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 11:42 AM
> To: Clarinet List
> Subject: Re: [kl] Competition of players of various States
>
>
> I just know I'm going to be sorry I poked my nose into this. I
> should mention
> at the start that I am not a music educator, so I speak with
> authority from a
> position of almost complete ignorance.
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:25:27 -0700, Richard Bush wrote:
> >
> >...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?
>
> But is that REALLY the kind of thing we want in a high school
> music program?
> Yes, I certainly want my daughter to be exposed to a good quality music
> education, but I'm not at ALL convinced I want her band director
> feeling "real
> pressure" to insure that his students prepare successful audition tapes.
> Shouldn't we be worried about making musicians rather than making stars?
>
> I dunno; maybe I am in the minority here, but I tend to think
> there is little
> real difference between the district/regional concert band
> competitions and the
> marching band competitions we ragged on so thoroughly last fall.
> I don't think
> either of them necessarily produces better musicians. And aren't
> high school
> students under enough pressure these days?
>
> --
> - Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
>
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