| dj,
I was trained in a New York freelance environment. If you didn't play, you didn't get paid . . . so you toughed it out. No problems there.
Conversely, I remember playing the Berg Chamber Concerto once in Holland (on TV as well) with a screaming bronchial infection and catching a load from my colleagues who (correctly) pointed out that the Rotterdam, like most European orchestras, had 2 first trumpets and that I didn't belong onstage.
The moral of this little story is to either find employment in a section of five or know a good pharmacist.
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