Is That You in Your Avatar? Part 4- Page 109

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 2:48pm

taz, I find her very eloquent. She speaks my language.

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 2:50pm

Rath will lose..she can't blow as good as Jaily.

[RadiGal2]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 2:51pm

and also decide if I really want to uproot myself and go 3,000 miles away for a job that only pays $50K a year.

Only 50,000 a year? Holy crap am I in the wrong discipline or what?
It would be a bloody miracle if I ever get to this amount in my field. Then again I tend to work for the true believers-- it's actually so tragic. What's truly ironic is that I always vote with my brain- I would cut off a limb rather than waste a vote on a third party candidate -- but work on behalf of my beliefs, which basically leaves me broke and broken these days.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 2:52pm

BTW: taz, what is the other woman holding on her lap?

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 2:56pm

I know I'm a sick puppy because this still makes me laugh....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=a_A5Xinaq9c

BTW..she's fine !!!

[tazber]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 2:57pm

That's her mother! I have no idea what she's holding, but if I could bottle her reactions I would. Every freaking time the camera pans to her she looks absolutely dumbfounded. I love her.
No, I mean I REALLY love her.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 2:57pm

$50K for a symphony job is....eh. For a principal chair, it's not that much. My old teacher made $108,500 when he was principal in the Met, and he's doing around $130K as principal in Philly right now.

And you're damn right I blow better than Rath. See?!

[tazber]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 2:59pm

How long is the gig Jaily?

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 2:59pm

It's Grade 7, there are 8 grades. I play two accompanied pieces and a solo study, sight reading, a bit of aural testing and theory, and scales (For Grade Seven, it's Bb Major 12th, F# Major 12th, G Minor 12th Harmonic & Melodic, D# Minor Harmonic & Melodic, F Minor 2 Octaves Harmonic & Melodic, Chromatics starting on C and Eb, Dominant 7ths on Eb and A, Diminished 7ths on Db and Bb).

Yipee.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:02pm

taz: That's her mother?

boobs: I love you! LOL!

Does anyone remember the "Grape Lady"?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=90m2Xw_Haj0

[tazber]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:02pm

There are probably 2 people here who understand all that Linne. LOL. Break a leg though.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:02pm

Oh, you're at grade 7? Nice! (I'm sort of familiar with the system over there...I wish we had something similar here!)

Which pieces are you playing?

Taz, it's a permanent job...like, whoever wins the chair is the new principal clarinet for as long as they live, or until they decide to get a new job somewhere else. They're also auditioning for a second clarinetist, so I'm really auditioning for two jobs, but the principal chair is the one I want. (obviously.)

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:04pm

Jaily is very flexible..as we all know.

SM2...now I know why we get along so well...you're as sick as me my friend. *mwah*

[tazber]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:05pm

Oh wow Jaily. 50K is just the starting salary, right? I mean, you'd eventually make bigger money, no?

Updated On: 5/2/07 at 03:05 PM

[chicolini]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:06pm

I used to love chromatics. Of course on a string instrument we'd just fake it by a slow glissando. I imagine it's tougher with buttons to push.

[vmlinnie]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:07pm

Those two people being you and Jaily, right taz?

I'm playing really obscure pieces. A Sonata of some kind, A little latin number, and an incredibly Dutch tarditional song, for my study.

My teacher was explaing the aural tests to the others. I was just thinking that if I get asked for a Minor 3rd, I'm gonna be humming 'So Long, Farewell...', and for Minor 6th, 'Bali-Hai...'

[RadiGal2]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:07pm

Jaily...I was just laughing at myself that's all. ...there ain't no money for the liberals in politics [question number one in every interview is some version of: are you doing this for love or money?]...if only I were wicked, or a republican...I might actually have a few assets.

I have a friend who used to play the violin for the Phx Symphony, boy some of the stories she has told me about trying to get back in, gosh.. it sounds so uber-competitive and stressful...I don't envy you at all.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:09pm

Yes SM, that's her mom! Isn't that hilarious?!

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:09pm

I once was playing the rusty trombone and my hand got stuck..it was a sticky situation..right in the middle of the National Anthem too.

Updated On: 5/2/07 at 03:09 PM

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:12pm

I'm great on the mouth-organ...I belong in a symphony.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:12pm

I was thinking of doing the last movement of the Poulenc Sonata for the next round, along with the Stravinsky Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet, the cadenza from the Copland Concerto, and the standard excerpts from Rhapsody in Blue, Scheherezade, and "Midsummer Night's Dream". They were pretty vague about the requirements...I'm sure they'll clarify this week. I hope.

Taz, it would go up, but not astronomically...for that kind of money, I need to either land a Broadway show (which, frankly, I'd rather do than play in a symphony), or play in one of the first-tier orchestras (San Fran, Los Angeles, NY Phil, Met Opera, Philly, Boston, Chicago, National Symphony).

I don't envy me, either, RG...I'm only doing this audition, really, because I was feeling stagnant and I needed a shot in the butt, so I sort of threw my hat over the fence with this one. I do not expect to win the job at all.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:14pm

I've always found rusty trombones more on the slippery side. As opposed to sticky.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:14pm

My contribution for the BWW yearbook:

Most Likely To Get Stuck In A Trombone -- Broadwayboobs

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:15pm

My mouth was very dry that night Taz.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 5/2/07 at 3:15pm

I think you meant "Most Likely To Get A Trombone Stuck In Him", SM2