Klarinet Archive - Posting 000415.txt from 1999/05

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Music Ed vs. Performance
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:41:43 -0400

On Tue, 11 May 1999, David Blumberg wrote:

> "Each year, more than 13,000 (thirteen thousand) hopefuls graduate with
> performance degrees, but annually, fewer than 150 (one hundred fifty)
> symphony jobs come open". That is from page A14 of the July 7, 1998 Wall
> St. Journal. Written by Gwendolyn Freed, editor of Chamber Music Magazine,
> Minneapolis. Are those numbers sobering enough??

150 jobs? Sounds optimistic. Perhaps the figure includes
all of those little $70/service community orchestra gigs,
where a section member leaves the group in order to enroll
in grad school or take a promotion at his/her day job in
another city.

-- Neil

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