[Menvi-discuss] Sight-reading

[Kaiti Shelton]

Hi,

This might be a little off topic as it's more of a personal anecdote,
but it's positive and has to do with sight reading so I thought it
might be nice.  I've had issues with sight reading throughout my band
years.  Whenever I'd audition for OMEA district honor bands at the
junior high and high school levels sight reading was waved as it is
for most students.  One year my judge gave me some extra scales
instead to sort of compensate for the empty score bracket, but other
than that there were no adaptations.  In my band class for playing
tests I wasn't always given the excerpt in enough time to have it
transcribed, so I'd either play something from the band literature I
thought that I knew just from picking it up by ear and from verbal
help from my stand partner, or I'd play something I was working on in
my private lessons.  Because of this, I was very shocked when I got a
call from the disabilities services offices at the college I'm
auditioning for.  They wanted to know how I would prefer my entrance
test and sight reading music and how much extra time I thought I would
need to study the braille before playing it.  It was really refreshing
to see that happen, especially since I haven't even been accepted to
the college yet and I thought that if anywhere college would be the
place where I would need to advocate for music the most.

On 1/10/12, SClark6144 at aol.com <SClark6144 at aol.com> wrote:
> i don't teach at all.  I just play.  Maybe that's a  good sign.
> Syl
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Kaiti