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 Re: First Chair Etiquette
Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date:   2007-05-02 00:53

If you're the first chair player, you play the solos. Period. If you're the second chair player, you practice until you win the first chair.

It's what everyone expects, and the hierarchy of the section is set up that way. "Giving" a solo to the second chair player violates the etiquette, and creates the problem you've found. Do it once and you'll be expected to do it again.

Don't feel guilty about playing the solos. You earned it. Stanley Drucker has been playing all the solos in the New York Philharmonic for 47 years. Sometimes he takes off the second half of a concert, and Mark Nuccio gets his chance, but Stanley sits second to nobody.

Ken Shaw
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