Thursday, August 9, 2007

interesting thought no. 2

Why is it that other countries' orchestras often offer national auditions to their own citizens before opening them up internationally, and an orchestra in the United States has yet to do that (to my knowledge)? It seems as though many countries do that. Why shouldn't we?

Many U.S. orchestras seem to be stressing the fact that you need to be able to work once you win a job, and that you must take care of visas, etc. beforehand if a problem is anticipated. From recent seminars I've been to, it seems as though managements don't want to even bother with the hassle to get these visas, etc. as it is a timely and costly process for the orchestra. So why not do this?

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