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I relate to this Karen! When I met Michael McLean about a year ago, we realized we'd gone to school together. Upon going through some old programs, I saw that we had played quite a number of symphony concerts together! I am not sure I deserve the shout-out. I am not an educator and my posts regarding public music education have been somewhat critical.

I did have a wonderful experience in High School and regret that my children have not had what I had.

Corwin, even if you are not an educator, what I think is great is that you are involved in your kids' education to the extent that you are. I think that the musical education of children is one of those things that, ideally, "takes a village." Laurie, what I think is so cool about this is that our paths crossed again on violinist.com 25 years later--even though I now live in another state and do something else for a living. Thanks so much for creating a site that helps make connections like that. Gee, I think it was a bit mean of the examiners to mark your scales
B-A-D. :)

Neil

LOL! But he did give me all 10 points for those B-A-D scales . . .

Another reason I posted this is that I'm curious about what they do in other states and countries besides New York in the 1980's. These auditions were a black box for me and I think it would have helped to have had more of an idea what to expect.

HaHA those forms have barely changed in the past 25 years! What a neat story Karen! A small musical world, isn't it? :)