Q: Difficulty of breaking into "the biz" (symphonies etc.)
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About a dozen or so years ago, I decided to brush up my long dormant oboe chops, and I started taking lessons from a young man in my area. That young man at the time was an oboe student at Julliard (back home on winter break, thus in my area.)
I took a few lessons with him, then he went back to Julliard and I moved on as well. Lost touch, and out of curiosity a few years ago tried to look him up to see how his career was going. Turned out ... he became a Police Officer (he still plays oboe as an avocation / hobby, married a musician violinist, iirc) but his "switching instruments" so drastically gave me pause:
I am long retired, and I have no idea what level of difficulty now awaits budding classical musicians. When I was starting out, it was a lot of "apprenticeships" before Julliard or the equivalent, then it seemed we just naturally gravitated to a group and found our spots through networking. Of course, I am speaking of those of us in "The Pit" (and not
prodigy level soloists).
Any youngsters out there who can enlighten an old fiddler? I suppose that it is now a very hard row to hoe in this our modern world. Which is a bit sad, when I think of how it used to seem almost a noble profession.
I took a few lessons with him, then he went back to Julliard and I moved on as well. Lost touch, and out of curiosity a few years ago tried to look him up to see how his career was going. Turned out ... he became a Police Officer (he still plays oboe as an avocation / hobby, married a musician violinist, iirc) but his "switching instruments" so drastically gave me pause:
I am long retired, and I have no idea what level of difficulty now awaits budding classical musicians. When I was starting out, it was a lot of "apprenticeships" before Julliard or the equivalent, then it seemed we just naturally gravitated to a group and found our spots through networking. Of course, I am speaking of those of us in "The Pit" (and not
prodigy level soloists).
Any youngsters out there who can enlighten an old fiddler? I suppose that it is now a very hard row to hoe in this our modern world. Which is a bit sad, when I think of how it used to seem almost a noble profession.
