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RE: the quality of NYSSMA solo festival evaluation

Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-04-06 22:38

Well, I've never had a bad judge and I've done NYSSMA every year since 4th grade (10th now and I did three solos last year). I've never had a really bad judge. Most have been very fair. However, a friend of mine who plays the French horn got a really bad judge once who just wrote "tap foot" on his sheet and gave him a B.

I hope that my judge this year will not just care about lots of notes. I'm playing the Adagio of the Finzi Concerto and it's fairly hard but not showy at all. I have seen some people who can play the notes but not the music get very good scores.

As I've increased the difficulty of my solos, I start them earlier. I started my solo (level 6) this year in early February and the festival's in late May. When I was a 4th grader at level two, I only worked on it for a few weeks.

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