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Re: majoring in music

Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-09-20 13:05

And even when they are "employable" it is still an infinite numbers game. That's one of the major problems is that players who are monsters still get hit with the numbers game and most loose it.

Here's an example of 2 friends of mine:

Both were at the very top of the McDonalds All-American Band (Principal and 2nd Chair). The one who was 2nd chair was also Principal Clarinet All Virginia Band for 3 years and as a freshman got upper 2nd Clarinet Section.

He graduated with a degree in performance (BM) and for 10 years delivered Pizza for Dominoes (daytime no less!!!). Fortunately he finally got a job in the Naval Academy Band 10 years after graduating college.

Other guy played in the Presidents Marine Band as a soloist and now sells Real Estate (left the Marine Band after about 6 years and doesn't play at all anymore) - he was a performance major and had aspired to play in an Orchestra full time.

Other times it can be a case of the jobs out there not being worth getting - someone who is starting a family usually can't be taking a gig paying under $20K for only a 1 year position.

There are some who will get jobs in Performance, but the "cranking out as many Performance Majors as the School needs the income" is to me criminal.

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