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 Re: ATL Symphony Principal Clarinet
Author: HeyHoHey 
Date:   2022-12-01 13:26

m1964,

A close friend of mine was a player who was unfairly dismissed at that particular audition 20 years ago. And he quit the clarinet shortly there after, so you are absolutely correct. Interestingly, blind auditions that are manipulated and finally show nepotism do kind of end up separating the players who will continue and press on no matter what from the players who will quit when their self-respect and dignity are destroyed by something like that. Many of the players who end up making it to major positions have had their dignity and self respect destroyed multiple times by unfair auditions, but they keep going because it is a calling.

I’ve also seen those New York Times articles about the removal of the curtain, and while it’s an interesting discussion to have, I personally think that it’s entirely misguided.

Most of the orchestras in the country that I live in do not use the curtain. The result of almost every audition is an open celebration of nepotism— they don’t even try to hide it or sugarcoat it. The winner is almost always the clarinet jury members’ best friend from college— in the country that I live in, usually, the clarinet section only judges the preliminary rounds, and it is not screened. Normally the people who pass are the clarinet sections’ best friends from college.. I had no idea 15 years ago when I won an audition here that this particular audition was one of the only strict blind auditions in the country.

It would be a terrible mistake to remove the curtain in America, IMO. I hope they don’t do it.



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