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Originally Posted by romey1
A horn player in the CSO has a theory that with smaller orchestras you are dealing with two problems........
1. Small orchestras feel inferior to big orchestras, so they tend to make their lists longer and MUCH more challenging.
2. The audition committees of smaller orchestras tend to be "caught up" on missed notes, rather than looking past a few clams to find the best musician.
There seems to be a lot more bullsh!t going on at small orchestra auditions, and the large orchestras tend to run their auditions in a "no-nonsense" and straight-forward manner.
This is because the musicianship of the committee members of the large orchestra is at a much higher level.
my 2 cents
romey
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Oh,if it were only true.
They seem to want a player who sounds like Herseth, never misses, is 20 years old and is incapable of speech(backtalk)
Audition committees quite often are made up of non-trumpet savvy string players.
At one audition I played the Concertmaster ran the audition.
He asked me to play Symphonia Domestica lightly and gaily
I asked if he was kidding............wrong question
You know I didn't get the gig.
There should be a master list for every chair in the orchestra, now wouldn't that be nice!
Wilmer