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Arizona Orchestra News 2008

PUBLISHED: April 2, 2008, John Ericson

The April issue of The International Musician (the paper of the AFM, the musicians union) has two items of interest about Arizona orchestras. The first item is that the musicians of the Arizona Opera Orchestra have secured a tentative agreement. They had been working for the past year in “play-and-talk” mode. ASU horn grad (BM [...]

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The Audience at Your Audition, Round by Round

PUBLISHED: February 1, 2007, John Ericson

Several students are taking auditions now in the studio. Part of playing an audition well is knowing who you are playing for. For an entrance audition for a school the audience is the horn teacher. For an orchestral job, eventually you are playing for the conductor. One of the things I keep on my desk [...]

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