On Jul 24, 2005, at 4:58 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 24 Jul 2005 at 2:18, Christopher Smith wrote:
Isn't it possible that at least part of the reason was because more
qualified female candidates were auditioning? . . .
I don't know.
What I do know is that the person who was quoted attributed most of
the change to the blind auditions. He said (if I'm remembering
correctly) that without the blind auditions, the big orchestras would
not have nearly as many women in them as they do now.
Hmm. They MIGHT have FEWER women without blind auditions, but I think
he is mistaken about the change being mostly attributable to that.
There were a LOT of shifts in gender politics going on at that time,
both among men (who might be less resistant to accepting women
candidates) AND among women (who might be more likely to push harder
for a career) and instituting blind auditions in orchestras was only
part of it.
Christopher
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