No disrespect to Preston, who is the legitimate winner of this audition, but seemingly resumes were cut based on distance, not experience. I know several people with multiple degrees from good schools™️, including the timpanist of another ROPA orchestra, who were not invited to the audition; it seems strange that a third year undergrad student would be invited in light of this. It’s slimy for an orchestra to think about their pocketbook in deciding who gets to take their audition unless they’re going to hold an above-board, announced local audition with a specific radius.
edit: It sounds like it’s not radius, but something even more arbitrary—applying sooner! Which isn’t cheap, just lazy.
Again I am here to dispute what you are saying because I applied very late to this audition and was still invited.
My point isn’t that you shouldn’t raise issues about the fairness or unfairness of a process on a forum. My point is you have already had to correct yourself once and you are throwing accusations without really having a grasp of what happened.
And you may say you don’t care but reacting without the full info seems like an emotional response to me.
I’m sorry my accusations seem unfair and that the specifics I guessed about as an outsider were incorrect. I won’t apologize for bringing up the issue of resume screening equity, and all I’ll say is that anyone who was qualified to take this audition and wasn’t allowed to should contact a ROPA representative to look into it if they feel so inclined. This is my intent in bringing it up, and I’m really not that interested in how they decided who could and couldn’t take the audition, just that they didn’t allow a lot of people to.
I’m hearing from within our very own studio here at USC that Preston Spisak won this job 💪
No disrespect to Preston, who is the legitimate winner of this audition, but seemingly resumes were cut based on distance, not experience. I know several people with multiple degrees from good schools™️, including the timpanist of another ROPA orchestra, who were not invited to the audition; it seems strange that a third year undergrad student would be invited in light of this. It’s slimy for an orchestra to think about their pocketbook in deciding who gets to take their audition unless they’re going to hold an above-board, announced local audition with a specific radius.
edit: It sounds like it’s not radius, but something even more arbitrary—applying sooner! Which isn’t cheap, just lazy.