Klarinet Archive - Posting 000673.txt from 1999/02

From: "Jason L. Cable" <cablej@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Competition of players of various States
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:09:26 -0500

>>Shouldn't we be worried about making musicians rather than making stars?
>
> amen!
> there's a high school musician I know of that practices so hard...has such
> discipline..it's amazing. but the thing is..when all state auditions roll
> around, they don't get the chair they expected to get. They beat
> themselves to death! They want to give up music, and playing all
> together!

Here! Here! Part of the reason I switched to oboe from clarinet was so that
I could get a chance to go to districts. Then while applying for colleges,
the place I wanted to go told me that I would have 100% chance of getting on
oboe and 0% on clarinet. I auditioned on oboe and did not get accepted.
Now I am a freshman music ed. oboe major somewhere I don't really want to be
and am considering changing to clarinet. I have finally come to the fact
that I don't like oboe that much. Next semester I may be clarinet...I am
working on Mozart's Concerto right now as an audition piece.

SOOOOOO...never let anyone convince you to do something you aren't sure
about. That is the best advice I can give to all the high schoolers on this
list. Also, competition is rarely as fair as it ought to be. AND...from
having hand problems....always get a second opinion from a credible source.

Jason

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

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