Klarinet Archive - Posting 000446.txt from 2003/07

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Met Clarinet opening
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:31:58 -0400

At 07:46 PM 7/15/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Metropolitan Opera
>
>CLARINET - Principal (possibly two positions)
>R=E9sum=E9 Date - August 15, 2003
>Audition Date - Late November 2003
>Starting Date - Winning candidates to start at earliest availability
>General Information - Only highly qualifed applicants should apply.
>Equal Opportunity Employer.

I love how they wrote this: it's pure Personnel Department. "Only highly=20
qualified applicants should apply"? Do they expect some guy who plays his=
=20
squeaks off-key in the subway to walk in and ask for audition time?

Seriously--if a resume is involved, who evaluates the resumes and on what=20
bases? Where the person trained? Conservatory or college background? His=
=20
or her private teachers? Where this person has played before? Direct=20
experience with operatic repertoire, and in what level of company? All of=
=20
the above?

I knew about Morales going to Philadelphia. Who's the other=20
possibility? Rabbai? Ognibene? The person who was hired to replace Sean=
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Osborn? A hell of a plum job, whatever it is: you get to sit in the middle=
=20
and watch gallons of sweat pour off Valery Gergiev:-).

Ken

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