Klarinet Archive - Posting 000939.txt from 2000/04

From: "Diane Karius, Ph.D." <dikarius@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Community Bands...
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 08:04:13 -0400

Lorell G. asked about auditions/seating issues in community bands
(post included below):

I currently play in three community groups, one of which
auditions (for entrance and seating). The music director of that
group just announced that prior to the beginning of our next season
_everyone_ will be reauditioned for seating. I don't know if he
plans on doing that on a regular basis (we're only in our second
season, so there's no real history to go by), but it certainly seems
tough to argue with, since everyone is re-auditioning.

The two groups that don't already have an audition policy are
harder to deal with. I too will be interested in hearing how other
bands who don't audition handle this.

> Any listers out there involved in community bands, please respond...
> I am section leader in my local community band, and am interested in how
> others in community bands handle the sticky "seating" issues. Audition is
> an "eight letter word" in our community (for adults that is) but all the
> high schoolers and some middle schoolers have either a challenge system or
> audition for chairs. The notion that people don't need to play for the
> director and/or section leader at some point to determine seating is foreign
> to me, having had to do it that way through middle school, high school, and
> college myself.
> Would appreciate anyone's take on this. To be fair to the stronger players
> and keep a good balanced sound in the section we are currently rotating
> people, giving various players, if competent and comfortable doing so, the
> opportunity to play different parts at different times, always keeping one
> or two real leaders in every section.
Diane R. Karius, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
University of Health Sciences
1750 Independence Ave.
Kansas City, MO 641o6-1453
email: dikarius@-----.EDU
http://uhsweb.edu/physio

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