Originally Posted by Hags888

While yes, this is a "rant", please remember, I have no false conceptions about my audition. I simply didn't play well enough. Was I not given ample warm-up space and ample warm-up time? No. Was I not kept informed of the daily proceedings so that I could remain both mentally and physically prepared to audition? No. Would it have mattered if I was given all those things? We'll never know. I'd like to think that what is already a total crap shoot to begin with, might have been less so if the audition was handled more professionally. But for an orchestra to completely botch the audition process like this to the point where I even question the authenticity of it in the first place is completely uncalled for, especially in an age where dirt poor musicians spend hundreds of dollars traveling to audition for what is essentially not a livable wage.