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Author: MSK
Date: 2018-01-27 05:39
My Senior year of high school there were two of us in close competition for first chair. However audition results placed us both below the person all expected to be third. We both challenged him and placed 1-2 ahead of him, with me in first chair. The band director permitted monthly challenges and the other person proceeded to challenge me monthly all year. I go so sick of it, but probably would have done the same thing in his place. It was a tfriendly rivalry and probably made us both better players. The other person had a slight edge over me in fast technical passages and I had the advantage in tone quality and musicality. It forced us both to improve our weaknesses.
Now my high school age son is in a band where they can't challenge. Auditions take place in the spring of the prior school year - about six months before concert band season starts. It can be quite frustrating for the person who had an off day at auditions - or worse yet made significant improvement in the intervening time. I think it probably makes the students a little lazy too. It seams like there should be a middle ground between no challenges and constant ones.
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2018-01-25 07:52 |
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2018-01-25 09:32 |
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2018-01-25 10:36 |
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MSK |
2018-01-27 05:39 |
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Musikat |
2018-01-27 06:35 |
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donald |
2018-01-27 07:17 |
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Ashle TK |
2018-01-28 22:41 |
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dorjepismo |
2018-01-29 09:25 |
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apaul001 |
2018-01-30 23:55 |
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