Klarinet Archive - Posting 000671.txt from 1999/02

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Competition of players of various States
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:54:29 -0500

At 08:02 PM 2/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>There's also the whims of the judges to contend with. A young man I know
>won the ARTS competition for clarinet this year - but isn't in the
>orchestra at Interlochen Academy (he's co-principal of the Academy
>band). None of the orchestra players made it past the initial round ...
>
>Mitchell Laurie was judge this year, and he must have been listening for
>something other than what the Interlochen chair committee was listening
>for.
>
It is, of course, just possible that the band player is actually BETTER
than the orchestra players (oh, heresy!). Or maybe he just smoked the
audition, while the other guys booted it. It doesn't HAVE TO be whims or
conspiracies.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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