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http://gopetition.com/online/23110.html Description/History: In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the necessity of changing the current judging process in music competitions...

November 22, 2008 at 2:18pm

Robert Trent

I am in agreement that greater transparency in the adjudication of music competitions is necessary. The simple ranking of contestants leaves many, and this includes the audiences, often with more questions than answers. Written feedback is many times more important than mere scores; given to contestants, prose critiques can be a valuable bit of information that those same contestants and their teachers can use to help improve their performance skills.

Attention to the needs and nurturing of the contestants and their artistic growth, I feel, is even more important than any perceived or real unfairness; because they are, or should be, the reason the competition exists. This call only be to the good and I laud this effort.

Sincerely,... Read More

Dr. Robert Trent
Director of Guitar and Lute Studies, Radford University
Director of the RU International Guitar Festival
http://music.asp.radford.edu/festivals/GuitarFest/GuitarFest.htm

December 4, 2008 at 5:23am

Carlos Barrientos

I refer you to the efforts that my long time friend, colleague and publisher, Matanya Ophee, has made in his writings about this very subject for MANY years...

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