February 17, 2011; New Orleans, LA
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As education departments continue to grow, there has been an increasing reliance on musicians who can reach out to the community, requiring teaching and communication skills that extend far beyond artistic talent. In order to assist education staff in growing the capacity of their artists in this area, the League has developed these guidelines to suggest benchmarks for excellence. Orchestra education personnel are encouraged to adjust and fine-tune this document to maximize its usefulness in individual orchestras.
This revealing survey of audition repertoire is your guide to the musical excerpts that leading American music directors use to select the finest musicians. It features more than 300 orchestral works categorized by instrument, frequency of request, and composer. An additional listing of musical sources serves as a guide to getting scores and parts for each work. Find out how leading orchestras find leading musicians! Compiled by Catherine Akos, Marshall Burlingame, and Jack Wellbaum.
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Compiled by the League's Conducting Continuum Committee May, 1997
This paper is a valuable source of information and materials pertaining to a music director search. It includes information on preparing the search, forming a search committee, the roles and responsibilities of the committee, strategies involved in the search process, dealing with the transition between the old and the new music directors, announcing the search, narrowing down the candidates, and finally selecting your music director. The appendices include a timeline, a budget worksheet, a guest conductor evaluation form for musicians, a job description, questions for references, telephone interview questions, personal interview questions, a contract checklist, an annual review of the music director, and many other excellent resources. By Donald Thulean.
This revised and expanded version of Selecting a Music Director provides updated information on all aspects of selecting and working with the music director. Material addresses strategies that enable the music director, board, and management to build healthy working relationships and ways to include the music director in the orchestra's overall evaluation process.
Essays, discussions, and statistics by composers, conductors, executives, board members, and others from the orchestra world who devoted themselves to reinvigorating the American orchestra. (Meet The Composer)
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