Klarinet Archive - Posting 000233.txt from 1999/11

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Which argument is right
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 08:03:49 -0500

Tony wrote:
Now on the one hand this was simply a deficiency of the audition system.
Someone capable of doing such a job to everyone's satisfaction is not
someone correctly to be eliminated in a first round, with two further
rounds to go. So since we happened to possess the information that he was
much better than he had seemed, it looked only sensible at least to pass
him on to the next round. On the other hand, this could be argued to be
unfair to the other eliminated candidates, who equally might have been
better than they demonstrated on that occasion. So, which argument is
right? And, what did we do?
Tony

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There have been auditions that Ricardo Morales did not get past the first
round. It does happen - a friend of mine took an audition in NY. in 1992
- Rochester I think. Was the same year he got the Met job. I understand
that Ricardo played well, but was not what they were looking for, got
knocked out in the first round.
Principal Trumpet of Boston Sym. Charlie Schluter told me that when he got
the Boston Job, he was playing Principal in Milwaukee (think that was the
job), and BSO called him to audition. He told them "I don't do nude
auditions", put me in the Orchestra, and I'll play for you. Was that fair?
Is life always fair?

David Blumberg
music@-----.com
http://www.mytempo.com http://www.mp3.com/mytempo for free samples
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