Audition Results

I disagree with your recommendation. It may very well be a smart idea to save some money and time in the short term, and you may have even extracted real information from what you perceive to be an orchestra's hiring patterns (you may find looking at an orchestra's CBA useful here as it contains all the info you need about audition procedure), however not doing the audition is poor advice if you want the job. To summarize: you have made the recommendation to not audition for certain orchestras. I am making the recommendation of: if you want the gig, you shoud do the audition.