Around the Web - 26 May

I'm always in search of great reading material-- please enjoy a few articles/interviews/videos I've encountered this week. Feel free to share! -BP

• Audition Cafe Interview with flutist Emma Gerstein - interview with recently appointed second flutist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  
  
• Auditioning for the Met Orchestra - written by principal bassoonist William Short, drawing from his conversations with Rob Knopper, percussionist, and Boris Allakhverdyan, principal clarinetist about the audition process at the Met Orchestra
  
  
• Can You Take an Orchestra Audition if You're Too Old, Too Busy, or You Didn't Go to Conservatory? - Really interesting blog post with short interviews with three metropolitan opera orchestra musicians. 
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• A Musician with Social Media Savvy  - interesting read about freelance flutist Gina Luciani
  
  
• Mitsuko Uchida interview: 'It's not enough to play the piano – it takes a lifetime to understand music'
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