Klarinet Archive - Posting 000185.txt from 2004/04

From: "Don Hatfield" <dhatfield@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Int'l Competitions w/out Int'l Jury
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:10:53 -0400

Oh, no...will this turn out to be a "light sound versus dark sound" thing???
Or are we talking the interpretive style, or even a combination of the two?
It's a queston I know was a factor for a friend auditioning for an orchestra
once, several years ago. He didn't get the job, and his playing style was
labeled the same.

Don Hatfield

<< it became apparent that those judges voted against me for concerns that
> my playing style was "too European" (whatever that meant). >>
>
> These aren't the same people that changed the name of the French Fries in
> the government dining halls, are they? :P

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