Even though blind auditions are less and less, I do want to add to analog's point that orchestras don't care about anything except for how well you can nail a h

Even though blind auditions are less and less, I do want to add to analog's point that orchestras don't care about anything except for how well you can nail a huge group of assorted excerpts and whether or not you suffer from anxiety that may affect your performance. Plenty of great musicians just never get a job because they get a lot of anxiety or don't have the patience to practice the same 12 measures of music for 12 years hoping that the audition they takes asks them for that. Orchestra excerpts are just leetcode for musicians, and just as lacking in testing the real qualities of good workers, artists, and people.