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Re: First Chair Etiquette

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-05-02 13:05

The first chair player has prerogatives, and I completely agree with Ken that the first chair plays the solos, period--but the conductor also has prerogatives, stronger ones, especially when directing a school group. What was this director thinking? Letting the second chair player subject the first chair player to bullying diva demands not only undermines the first chair player but diminishes the teacher's authority, too. What's next? Will somebody farther back in the section demand and get equal time on the solos because --sob!-- *it's just not fair*? When the director says, "I want a bigger crescendo at letter A," will the ensemble give a collective shrug and ignore the direction?

Lelia
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