 The Clarinet BBoard
|
Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2012-07-07 01:52
Groan!
What a bummer to have accomplished so much, to have worked so hard and then have some bad luck --something not directly related to one's musicianship.
Bob Phillips
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: michael13162
Date: 2012-07-07 06:42
That was a very interesting read. The life of a musician...
What do you call a musician without a significant other?
Homeless.
^^ huh, huh get it? ;D
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2012-07-07 11:53
Gregory Smith wrote, in the comments section below this article:
>> Have to add that after serving on many an audition committee for my orchestra during my almost 30 years there, including the hearing of literally hundreds of principal clarinet candidates over the last several years coming from all corners of the globe, there seems to be a misperception among some that as committee members, we are seeking the “perfect playing” candidate and that no mishaps (unless they are repeated enough to cause question) are allowed. Nothing could be further from the truth – in fact just the opposite is true from my own personal experience. We are rooting for and are on the edge of our seats FOR the candidate to do their best. In our case, it took 4 separate yearly auditions and several in-orchestra trial periods for several candidates to find that “perfect” candidate. But the part that always gets left out about this “perfect” candidate is that they are not “perfect” in the literal sense at all – they just happened to be “perfect” for OUR particular orchestra’s style.>>
I wrote something very similar in:
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=275036&t=269533&v=t
Tony
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2012-07-10 02:47
Very neat read. It occurs to me after a conversation at work about the tire industry, that (this is no earth-shattering thought) the music industry is commoditized these days. It's extremely unfortunate. I really see it while looking at the annual salary for the Louisiana Phil principal clarinet position - just over $25k. I'm shocked by that fact that a full time, highly trained, professional musician would only garner that amount. I can recognize that Louisiana isn't the biggest hot bed of classical music, but the principal position in a pro group - yikes.
I had many a friend who were music majors wanting to perform for a living and this makes me not-envious toward their position, nor toward their student loan debt that I'm sure is mounting.
To any music illiterate, it should be a very humbling statistic. In the consumer industries, as products become so good as to be nearly indistinguishable, it all comes down to cost and I see attributes of that tragic world in the professional musician world. Sad.
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
The Clarinet Pages
|
 |
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
.jpg){kind=small}
