Klarinet Archive - Posting 000674.txt from 1999/02

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Competition of players of various States
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 23:09:27 -0500

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>

>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.

No conspiracies in the ARTS competitions. Tapes only were submitted, and
Freddy (a real nice kid from NYC) made it through. He's busy filling out
all sorts of essays now to see if he'll end up being a Presidential
Scholar.

BTW, Roger - Hawkins mouthpiece, Vandoren V12 #4 :^)
----
Mark Charette@-----.org/clarinet
"Cards by Aimee", http://www.sneezy.org/Aimee
"The phenomenon is too variable for proper study" often
translates from "I don't know how to get musicians to do
anything twice the same" - A. H. Benade

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