Klarinet Archive - Posting 000448.txt from 2003/07

From: "Jay Webler" <webler@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Met Clarinet opening
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:04:52 -0400

How can they say they're and "Equal Opportunity Employer" if they only let
the highly qualified apply. That certainly shuts me out.

Jay Webler

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Wolman" <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Met Clarinet opening

At 07:46 PM 7/15/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Metropolitan Opera
>
>CLARINET - Principal (possibly two positions)
>Résumé 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
qualified applicants should apply"? Do they expect some guy who plays his
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
bases? Where the person trained? Conservatory or college background? His
or her private teachers? Where this person has played before? Direct
experience with operatic repertoire, and in what level of company? All of
the above?

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

Ken

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