Any Job openings?

Joe Baker · Post by **Joe Baker** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:12 pm

How's this:

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Joe Baker, who is kidding... sort of...

ThomasP · Post by **ThomasP** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:43 pm

The guy is doing an English class assignment, NOT looking for career advice.

Joe Baker · Post by **Joe Baker** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 4:54 pm

Yeah, we should have told him to look in the Classified section of his local paper, under "Help Wanted: Tuba players".

The McDonald's thing was just a joke, and even in retrospect I think it's funny. Surely the original poster knows that a tiny minority of tuba majors wind up playing tuba for a living. If not, are you really suggesting that we should keep it a secret??
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Joe Baker, who suggests looking at the other "Auditions" posts, many of which quote from or link to announcements of openings.

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:04 pm

As an OU Alumn (class of '81- Industrial Arts Ed) I have to agree with teaching.
I also would recommend a cursory view at the USMC....possibly even the Presidents Own USMC Band.

Here's a link -
http://www.marineband.usmc.mil/

They do have a tab about auditions......
and snappy outfits!!!!!

ThomasP · Post by **ThomasP** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:36 pm

I'm not suggesting keeping it a secret, what I am hoping is that tuba players getting a performance degree realize this. And I'm suggesting to stay on topic. With that said....I don't know of any jobs open right now, but with all the things happening lately there will be a few open soon I would think.

tubarepair · Post by **tubarepair** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:33 pm

The McD's ad was funny, at least to me. A quick google search for tuba player wanted landed this result as #1

need good, solid, improv tuba player to play with working, acoustic blues/rag player in PDX area. possible touring.
this is in or around Portland, OR

Daryl "who usually finds Joe's sense of humor right on the mark" Hickman

anonymous4 · Post by **anonymous4** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 6:57 pm

While the philosophical debate continues, here are some jobs outside the US that you can check out:

http://www.musicalchairs.info/Orch%20Jo ... nglish.htm

Not much happening in the states right now.

Good luck!

Gorilla Tuba · Post by **Gorilla Tuba** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 8:17 pm

http://chronicle.com/jobs/100/100/4000/

http://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/sea ... JobCat=124

Dean · Post by **Dean** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:21 am

The "regular" military bands have openings periodically.

The Navy and Air Force has about 15 bands or so (some are overseas). The Navy has about 15 as well, again some are outside continental US. The Army has the most with around 30 bands. The marines I know nothing about, nor do I care to research them further.

These bands regularly have openings, simply because there are so many of them. Perhaps, for the sake of your project, you can simply have an entry for "military bands"?? When I was looking, I would have considered all these branches.

Symphony gigs and premier military bands do come up, but not often enough to be "reliable," often with several years of nothing before a job pops up. These bands have so many tubists (put together) that an opening does come up regularly. These branches have their differences yes, but not to any huge degree.