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Re: Competition article

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-04-22 12:58

Finally got around to reading Michael Johnson's article -- David, yes, it's interesting; but I'm not so sure that competitions are really any more dishonest now than when I was a student half a century ago. In the 1950s and 1960s, my piano teacher used to brag that all of his students submitted tapes of their own playing, not his, with their applications to competitions and to schools such as Juilliard.

The fact that he even considered it noteworthy to boast that his students didn't cheat on their pre-selection tapes indicates how widespread (nearly universal, according to him) it was in those days for a teacher or a professional to record a tape and submit it with the student's application. Today, students submit videos instead of audio tapes. It takes more-sophisticated movie-making skills to Milli Vanilli a video, but I'll bet there's some of that going on, in addition to the shenanigans Johnson reports.

Lelia
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