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That article is behind the NYT paywall but the bit of it I could see appears to be saying not that > blind auditions are now a thing of the past but that they
by gjm11 5y ago
That article is behind the NYT paywall but the bit of it I could see appears to be saying not that
> blind auditions are now a thing of the past
but that they should become a thing of the past, so that orchestras can ensure that their makeup (race, gender, etc.) matches that of "the communities they serve".
There's a big difference between "one person writing in the New York Times thinks orchestras should stop doing blind auditions" and "blind auditions are now a thing of the past".
- fortran77 5y agoIt is already happening. For example: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/buffalo-philharmonic-no-white-or-asian-conductors-need-apply/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/09/buffalo-philharmonic-...
- gjm11 5y agoThat article doesn't give one single example of an orchestra that isn't using blind auditions any more. It does give one single example of something, namely an orchestra looking to appoint something like an assistant conductor (that isn't the job title; the article claims it's an equivalent post; I haven't attempted to find out whether they're right) specifically from the non-white non-Asian population. Maybe that's a good thing, maybe it's a bad thing, but it has nothing to do with an alleged end of blind auditions: you literally cannot give an orchestra conductor a blind audition. (When I say "one single example", I mean it; the article suggests that this sort of thing is becoming common, and for all I know it may be, but it doesn't deign to give any actual evidence other than this one example, along with a link to the same NYTimes article asking for an end to blind auditions.)
- shagie 5y agoUnlocked - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-auditions-orchestras-race.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWma3DKDm8ciO0PH5PH_lrWZKEkbd8y2TjeTcJNMaMuQ_ppi-hFNExgUBWyq4DBgp0OLmM1tYe3FCsQ7q76YIoZo3Xsf3Xrb6B23qG-tBaLd2DrXvPUgiZ2OAkx8pF6cVmhjWgCzqbFDrF234IpjvggUs0sRiwSJ3Xf54meABp5Pt6EaBvc-1N2D7kfAWeP6Ibav7EQcwxSCkbET2d_5ws869BaOtAXNMXvPkJqOZq-0fhKVDsefMr-DIYxRoPUi7xrrbXGzBeMw8e3zP49f75G6h5LmG215YikftynscCgig&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition...