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« Reply #1 on: 14:24:43, 05-07-2007 » |
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Thanks for the notice, Oz... where does one find out about such opportunities in UK without having to troll the r3ok message boards?  |
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« Reply #2 on: 14:26:04, 05-07-2007 » |
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Dr. Cassidy, if you're not totally burned out, paging Dr. Cassidy... |
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« Reply #3 on: 14:59:11, 05-07-2007 » |
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Thanks for the notice, Oz... where does one find out about such opportunities in UK without having to troll the r3ok message boards? CD, this is the best source - www.jobs.ac.ukYou can refine your search there down to music/ composition, whatever. Huddersfield's a good place, even without Chris Fox now! |
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« Reply #4 on: 15:03:27, 05-07-2007 » |
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Do you think when the Esterházy family were looking for a composer they ever played Haydn seek?
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« Reply #5 on: 15:05:07, 05-07-2007 » |
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Do you think when the Esterházy family were looking for a composer they ever played Haydn seek?
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Chafing Dish
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« Reply #6 on: 17:26:17, 05-07-2007 » |
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CD, this is the best source - www.jobs.ac.ukYou can refine your search there down to music/ composition, whatever. Huddersfield's a good place, even without Chris Fox now! Thanks, not looking now, but probably will be next year |
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« Reply #7 on: 18:18:35, 05-07-2007 » |
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Thanks for the notice, Oz... where does one find out about such opportunities in UK without having to troll the r3ok message boards?
The Times higher education supplement is also a good resource. http://www.thesjobs.co.uk/One thing I've noticed, though, about academic jobs in the UK is that the search process is exceptionally short, and notice often arrives (as in this job at Hudds) weeks rather than months/years b/f the job starts. In the US, we're already getting postings for jobs that begin in Fall 2008 (w/ application deadlines in, say, October '07). |
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« Reply #8 on: 18:24:05, 05-07-2007 » |
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Aaron, I'll bet that has to do with money. Is that universally true of US Unis, or just the non-state funded ones? In the UK, most universities are in a state of such financial insecurity that it's almost never possible to plan that far ahead. 'Post rounds' are tied to budgets, obviously, and budgets are more and more a matter of contingency planning.
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« Reply #9 on: 18:40:42, 05-07-2007 » |
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A fine question, martle. What tends to happen here is that jobs are posted often even b/f funding has been 100% secured. Of the jobs for which I applied last year, a rather astonishing percent ended up not being filled (in several cases b/c the money for the hire never materialized, though in other cases simply b/c the vagaries of the search process at American institutions are so effing complicated and cumbersome that the institution simply couldn't manage to find the right person for the job). (The latter problem seems even more severe w/ senior-level hires, wherein a chosen applicant, b/f actually getting a job offer, still has to go through the tenure-review process at the new institution.)
And, for the record, you shouldn't delude yourself into thinking that American universities are any better off financially than British ones (and this is even more the case w/ music schools -- while the larger university community might be rolling in money, the music school/department/program is often quite financially strapped).
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« Reply #10 on: 21:50:00, 05-07-2007 » |
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And, for the record, you shouldn't delude yourself into thinking that American universities are any better off financially than British ones Aaron, believe me I don't! I did four years as a grad student in the states. But surely it's true to say that there is a far higher proportion of well-off Unis in the states than here. Here's a cheery little monthly update on Princeton, for example: http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/0205/Another factor is the 'giving' culture, here versus there. Berkeley employs roughly 100 people in its alumni department, regularly wringing millions out of them in donations. The institution I work at employs 3, and isn't so much smaller. 'Philanthropy' of this type in the US has a much richer and prouder tradition than here. It's just another factor... |
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« Reply #11 on: 21:57:48, 05-07-2007 » |
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« Reply #14 on: 00:00:40, 14-07-2007 » |
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Hmmm, not sure how much use this is going to be. At our season finale on 24 June, the chairman of the local orchestra I play in announced our 'Birthday Commission Competition'. I'm not quite sure how this can be a commission if it's a competition, but there you go. Anyway, here's an extract from the orchestra's brochure for its 2007/8 season. Sunday 18 May 2008, The Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park, Bracknell from 11 am to 5 pm
To celebrate its 21st Season, WFS is running a competition for composers to produce a short orchestral work, which will open our concert on 22 June. The distinguished British composer John Mc Cabe will chair the judging panel, and the final three shortlisted works will be rehearsed and performed in open workshop. At the end of the afternoon an audience vote will be taken into account in the panel's choice of winning composition. I think the chairman said the full details of the competition will be advertised in September, and that there would be some sort of judging panel to get things down to a shortlist of 3. 'Cos this is all vague, you can see why I said I wasn't sure what use this would be. Anyway, in case you are interested...... The Concert is on 22 June 2008, 7.30pm St Paul's Church, Wokingham, Birthday Commission Brahms Double Concerto (Ron and Juliet Colyer) Sibelius Symphony No.5 And the orchestra's website is: http://www.westforestsinfonia.org/Cheers Tommo |
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