Klarinet Archive - Posting 000181.txt from 2004/04

From: "Film & Music Promotion Management" <FilmPromotion@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] re:Int'l Competitions w/out Int'l Jury
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 20:02:38 -0400


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"Bryan Crumpler" <crumpletox@-----.com>
Subject: Int'l Competitions w/out Int'l Jury
Message-ID: <BAY13-F37v7QqsQIkQs00055cc9@-----.com>

Just thought I'd throw out this topic for discussion...

What do you all think about international music competitions that
don't have
an international panel?

I'm bringing it up because I was kinda disturbed that in two of my
most
recent challenges, there was only, like, 1 or 2 judges; and in
reviewing my
comments, it became apparent that those judges voted against me for
concerns
that my playing style was "too European" (whatever that meant).

I know we all have classic, "stereotypical" styles in different parts
of the
world for clarinet and everything, but I thought that was a rather
thick
comment to make at a so-called "international" competition. And you
all know
that since these things are subjective, a comment like that makes a
world of
difference as to placing in the finals or not even advancing from
quarterfinals... especially when there're no checks and balances from
a
1-judge jury.

Any thoughts?

Bryan

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At the Belgian Intl. Clarinet Competition (1993 if I recall the year)
I coached one of the Finalists of the ICA Competition (Rick Hulls from
the Netherlands who hadn't played the Copland Concerto and was at a
distinct disadvantage of not being familiar with the style of one of
the main works in the Competition). Afterwards he shared the Judges
Scores with me and on Dynamic Range one Judge gave him a 1 out of 5
points, another gave him a 5 out of 5 points - FOR THE SAME TASK.

The legendary Guy Deplus was one of the Judges and Michele Incenzo
from Italy was the other one.

It sure isn't like Olympic Swimming Scoring!!!! (8.5, 8.5, 8.5, 8.5)

At the risk of offending any of our European members, the Judges were
possibly inferring that your tone was too dark, too weak, too polite -
who the hell knows....

They really should have explained just what the heck they were
referring to.

But then again, we do have the "World Series" of
Baseball..................

David Blumberg
http://artists.primetones.com/blummy

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