Klarinet Archive - Posting 001280.txt from 2000/10

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: RE: [kl] A curricular issue
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:53:51 -0400

At 06:29 PM 10/26/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>You wouldn't think students who can't play well
>enough for the least select ensembles would be admissible as fully
>matriculated students. If there are "too many flute players," I'd think
>someone should have thought to limit the flute admissions. And if it's only
>one or two kids who are in some kind of crack, surely, they can be
>accommodated in one of the available large ensembles with no real harm to
>the group's balance.
>
>Roger, I'm not a college teacher, so I can't really identify with this
>predicament first-hand. I'd be interested to read more examples of how this
>kind of situation can legitimately arise.
>
>Karl Krelove

Karl,

You've asked good questions. Assume that there is no way to know about the
"walk-on" student (non-music major) who decides to play that no one has
heard of. We have a policy that allows any qualified student to audition
and make any ensemble. We don't discriminate (not that I am trying to
imply that other would be) against a non-music major. It's a competitive
world, and the best players make it in. Let's say you have 12 flute
openings in two wind ensemble (each a 48 piece ensemble - designed to fit
on the stage and to accomodate the general size of the School of Music),
and there are 20 flute auditions. Let's then say that the music major who
did not make it in was 18th out of 10 majors and 10 non-majors.

Does this help?

Thanks for asking the questions!

Sincerely,
Roger Garrett

Roger Garrett
Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Head, Recording Studio
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
(309) 556-3268

"A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes
another's."
Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825)

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