| Re: sticking it out in school??
One of my good friends faced the exact situation that you describe, except he had won a job just prior to leaving for school. Here is an excerpt from an article in the Phoenix Gazette…
Benitez played fourth trumpet [in the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra] for a year while planning to study elsewhere [he won this position as a senior in high school]. In August 1976, his bags were packed for New York City, where he’d been accepted as a student of William Vacchiano.
But before he left he decided to audition for the PSO’s third trumpet “for the experience.” Unlike fourth trumpet, third was a permanent, full-time position.
When he won the audition, he didn’t know what to do – take the gig or go to school. Someone else had an answer.
“I called Vacchiano. I told him, ‘I got a job with the Phoenix Symphony, but I still want to study with you.’
“He told me, ‘If you come here you’ll just work hard for four years and then hope to get a job like the one you already have. So stay there. If you show up in New York, I’ll kick your butt back to Phoenix!’”
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona |