Presidents Marine Band Tuba CANCELLED

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Presidents Marine Band Tuba CANCELLED

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What happened?

"The Tuba audition previously scheduled for Jan. 7-8, 2019, has been cancelled and will not be rescheduled."
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I'm still retiring next year(wow, that's hard to type!),but the tuba section will be shrunk by one player to allocate that slot to a different section of the band. This move reflects trends in the types of commitments our organization supports.

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What kind of commitments is your organization supporting fewer of??

Just curious...
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Fewer? Not sure, but there are more non-tuba commitments popping up on the schedule that necessitated this move. That's about as far into the "inner workings" as I'm comfortable getting.
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Oh, well if you mean the jazz and rock ensembles are getting more gigs than the quintet, that would make sense and we would all understand it. No need to be cryptic....
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JCradler wrote:I'm still retiring next year(wow, that's hard to type!),but the tuba section will be shrunk by one player to allocate that slot to a different section of the band. This move reflects trends in the types of commitments our organization supports.

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