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Re: Auditions

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2016-05-25 17:06

In my experience having listened to several professional auditions as a member of an auditioning committee I can state this. Many members of the committee, we always had nine in the Baltimore Symphony, had different opinions of a player in the preliminaries. Usual about what they thought was "musical". Intonation and rhythm ware pretty much unanimous. Opinions of tone quality often differed as well. For me, if I don't like someones tone that was enough for me to say no. If intonation or rhythm was not accurate I'd say no. If a player overpraised or played dull, I'd say no. If a player did not have very clean technique, I'd say no, that doesn't mean missing a note. Once players moved up into the semi and the finals the players would be more scrutinized for their musicianship, blend and perfection. When you prepare for an audition there is no such thing as one aspect of your playing in more important than another. You strive for perfect rhythm, intonation and technique. Then tone and musicianship, phrasing, becomes a matter of opinions with individual commettie members and ultimately the conductor. I was at one audition that our committee moved three players into the finals. When the conductor then "conducted" the players in some passages the conductor stated to the committee he would not hire one player because they "didn't respond to his gestures".

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