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 Re: Help! Band director doesn't understand the value of sectionals!
Author: Paul Aviles 
Date:   2015-08-11 12:33

I find the talk about "equipment requirements" interesting. It almost seems we left off at this being an issue relegated to over zealous, mid tier, American band directors.


I would hasten to point out there are some examples from where this happens at high levels in Europe. Word on the street was that in the 70's Karajan required his entire horn section to use Holton french horns. That aside, you ONLY see Kochtan oboes and Ulman french horns in the Vienna Philharmonic even to this day. And many German orchestras put a stipulation in their audition notices for the use of German system clarinet only, despite the greater use of Boehm system clarinet in Germany every day.


Taking things back home, there are plenty of professional orchestral audition stories of the recent past (the last 30 years) where players in final rounds were asked about their equipment and then dismissed. Only more recently has it become more customary for the auditioning musician to politely refuse to answer that question.


Though I have heard of such American band directors, they are fortunately in the minority by far. I feel no such autocratic overreach is productive, particularly in an educational setting where one should be discussing the primacy of musical concepts and playing together with regard to that.







.....................Paul Aviles
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