Author: oboesax
Date: 2011-11-09 13:42
The issue of being distracted is an interesting one. Last weekend my daughter performed the English horn solo in Dvorak's New World symphony with a large youth symphony in a large symphony concert hall. The youth orchestra recently added a double bass player who has Asperger's syndrome. Since the youth orchestra is a charitable organization perhaps they felt they should accept this student. Overall the youth orchestra plays at a high level, but this young man not only cannot play the notes, he plays a 1/2 tone off and also makes many random noises and plays during some silent pauses of the music. Right before my daughter's first solo in the 2nd movement, the bass player (who stands right next to her in the orchestra), started tapping his foot loudly off beat, and humming some tune that was not Dvorak. It can be heard on the recording. My daughter still pulled off the solo well, but she said she was very very distracted.
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