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RE: Orchestra Camp???

Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-11-20 00:00

There's NYSSSA in Albany, NY- with the Philadelphia Orchestra. It's an orchestral program and by audition. I was an alternate last year and hope to get in this year. There's a program at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts with the BSO that's run by Boston University but it's extremely expensive and not easy to get into (NYSSSA is cheap because it's run by the state of New York). They have both band and orchestra but I think you have to be 15 for the wind ensemble. I don't know about things more southern, I think there's somewhere in North Carolina that's fairly well known (???). Albany can't be more than about seven or so hours from Maryland and Lenox only a little further. In the same rough geographical area, I went to Hartwick this summer- it was a mixed experience, but maybe it would be good for you. It's less intense than the other two (unless they stick you in every orchestra and the best band at the same time with no practice time- this isn't personal experience or anything :D ).

I agree about orchestras versus bands. Orchestras are, for me, so much more fun. Band music is good enough, but compared to orchestra music, not very much is truly great or important. And I'm a violinist as well as a clarinetist and I really love strings. (Some wind players seem to have a sort of string-phobia.)

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