Klarinet Archive - Posting 000277.txt from 1999/11

From: "Jay D. Webler" <webler@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] More about 'that' audition
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:49:51 -0500

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Please excuse me while I jump in and expose my ignorance, once again. =
If you have a Clarinet player that is already playing in the =
organization, and everybody is happy with him/her (must be politically =
correct) then why have an audition anyway. If you say that your just =
trying to get the best player, isn't that the one that everybody is =
happy with. If you say that your just trying to be fair to the other =
Clarinet players in the world, than I say you need to get into to the =
real world for awhile. As I have tried to teach my children, "Life just =
isn't fair, What may be fair to you, is not fair to the person who =
doesn't get the job."

Please enlighten me so that I can be a little less ignorant.

Jay Webler
Jay's Clarinet and Percussion

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [SMTP:Tony@-----.uk]
Subject: Re: [kl] More about 'that' audition=20

David Blumberg wrote:

> Tony wrote:
> =20
> > Well, you're right, he didn't get the job. But my question was
> > rather, should we have passed him into the second round, or not? And
> > that's a question you're as qualified as anyone to have an opinion
> > on. The 'guess' -- and, because it's water under the bridge, it's
> > just a fun thing really, though at the time it obviously wasn't fun
> > for him -- was, *did* we pass him into the second round?
>=20
> The player who was already playing the gig should have been passed to
> the 2nd or final round without playing in the preliminary "cattlecall" =

> Audition. It happens all of the time.

Yeah, but he *wasn't* so passed.

So what should we have done *then*?

I really think that this is an interesting question precisely because it
makes us consider what an audition is *for*.

Is it to be fair to the community of clarinet players at large?

..or is it to try to find the best player for the job?

If the latter, to give *any* player the benefit of the doubt, and pass
him/her to the next round, can only increase the likelihood that we find
the best player for the job. It can't *decrease* it.

Tony
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