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Date Posted: 18:24:08 02/16/05 Wed
Author: Nickie
Subject: Re: Contest
In reply to: Gary 's message, "Re: Contest" on 10:04:24 02/14/05 Mon

See, it's funny that you say that because my high school choir director took the completely opposite approach. He would just write off all the comments as being "dumb" and I can just remember him saying something like, "This guy doesn't know what he's talking about... He's after us because he wanted this job that I have..." or the like. To me, that was just ridiculous. In retrospect, it seems like he had an inability to accept constructive criticism!

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[> [> [> [> Re: Contest -- Dr. O., 07:09:15 02/21/05 Mon [1]

This is an interesting thread. I agree that the opinion of adjudicators is, by its very nature, subjective. However, remember that these are trained adjudicators and are normally experienced, veteran teachers. In that regard, they are supposed to represent an informed opinion. Does it always work that way? Well, obviously not.

Here is an interesting example. In our Symphonic Band rehearsal we have spent considerable time working on playing musically, and examining some of the choices which lead to more musical performance. One of our alums, Rosalind Thacker, is a high school band director and has been sitting in on rehearsals to keep up her playing chops. After band rehearsal recently she approached me. If I can paraphrase our conversation, she basically said: I would like to have my high school band play more musically, but can I do that at contest, or will the judges just expect me to play exactly what is in the score, and penalize us if we deviate?

To me, this becomes the crux of the discussion about contest/adjudicated events? Does it encourage musical playing or rote, mechanical playing which follows exactly the score markings? When I was a high school band director I remember being criticized by a judge because my band played something at a tempo of 112 when the score said 120. I wonder if that doesn't happen all too often...

Dr. O.


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