Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 2000/05

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gender bias - survey?
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 18:06:25 -0400

From: "Emily S" <harvinet@-----.com>

> Tell that to some of those European conductors! Did you hear that story
> about that poor woman who played trombone? She was supposedly way better
> than everyone else in her audition behind a screen for a big European
> orchestra...but when they found out she was a woman...there she went. Sad.

That was Abbie Conant and the Vienna Philharmonic. You can read her side of
the story at http://metro.turnpike.net/~iwbc/ladies.html . I don't know
where to find the VPO's side.

Mark C.

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