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All Quiet on the Audition Front

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:29 pm
by dante jones
Rumors of auditions and positions abound, but so far it's been a quiet summer in the world of professional tuba, a world whose inhabitants could make up possibly the world's smallest and most haphazard nation state.

So let's air some thoughts out.

What are you, the professional tubist, doing in this recent dry season to keep the chops up? brass band and practicing in my school band building - i'm a teacher not a kid or a weirdo

What rumors are you hearing? that we all live inside a dream

What foods are you avoiding? beets and olives for me

Re: All Quiet on the Audition Front

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:42 pm
by THE TUBA
dante jones wrote:that we all live inside a dream
...but who is the dreamer?

Re: All Quiet on the Audition Front

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:06 pm
by Tuboxchef
I heard there's going to be an opening in New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Phil, Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Houston Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, London Symphony, SOON...in the next 50 years. :? :lol: :twisted: :D

Re: All Quiet on the Audition Front

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:18 pm
by Three Valves
I recon if I just goof off at my square job all day I got just about as good a chance as anyone who actually tries!!

:tuba:

Re: All Quiet on the Audition Front

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 4:40 pm
by Watchman
bloke wrote:I heard a big fat B♭...
Whoever that was probably spent weeks diligently practicing those excepts, only to be undone by that tricky B, with no courtesy accidental, that they had no idea was coming. If they are going to use something arbitrary like that to pick the winner, they should do it like the old school military band auditions and just go all sight-reading for every round.

No disrespect intended Bloke. I'm not hating the player, but the game. Auditions suck.

Re: All Quiet on the Audition Front

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:14 pm
by dante jones
THE TUBA wrote:
dante jones wrote:that we all live inside a dream
...but who is the dreamer?

Monica Bellucci of course! I bet neither she nor anyone in her family knows any tuba players