From: "Michael Polesky M.P.A." Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 12:04:16 -0800 Subject: [Fwd: Music Humor]
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For those of you who are considering working in the classical field I have obtained a "copy in advance" from "sources unnamed" of the "Calssical Musician's Entrance Exam" math portion only. Please review these questions and prepare your answers in advance so that you will have a slight "edge" over those who don't play the harp in this field. Remeber, only the French Horn players have access to this as well so use discretion!
Michael
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>MATH TEST FOR ORCHESTRA MEMBERS > >1. Armando is the dynamic new conductor of an orchestra and has increased > the ticket sales for the classical series to 95%. If the concert hall holds >3200 people, and the concerts begin promptly at 8:05 pm, how many digital >watch alarms will go off within one minute of 9pm? Within 5 minutes? > >2. Richard has been a professional timpanist for 35 years. In his personal >kit he owns 32 different yarn mallets, 12 different wool mallets, 5 different >rubber mallets, and 2 different polished brass tack hammers. What are the >odds that a conductor will ask him to use different mallets at the first >rehearsal of a Haydn symphony? A Mahler symphony? > >3. Julinda's orchestra performs Dvorak's "New World" symphony every 6 years, >Sibelius' Swan of Tuonela every 4 years, and Berlioz's Overture to Benvenuto >Cellini every 3 years. What are the odds that, in any given year, the program >notes will include the sentence "The English Horn is neither English nor a >horn."? > >4. Sandy is tired of paying for clarinet reeds. If she adopts a policy of >playing only on rejected reeds from her colleagues, will she be able to >retire on the money she has saved if she invests it in mutual funds (yielding >8.7%) before she is fired from her job? > >5. Jethro has been playing the double bass in a symphony orchestra for twelve >years, three months, and seven days. Each day, his inclination to practice >decreases by the equation: (Total days in the orchestra) x .000976. Assuming >that he stopped practicing altogether six months ago, how long will it be >before he is completely unable to play the double bass? > >6. Wilma plays in the second violin section but specializes in making >disparaging remarks about conductors and other musicians. The probability of >her making a negative comment is 4:7 for any given musician, and 16:17 for >conductors. If there are 103 musicians in the orchestra and the orchestra >sees 26 different conductors each year, how many negative comments does Wilma >make in a two-year period? How does this change if five of the musicians are >also conductors? What if six of the conductors are also musicians? > >7. Horace is the General Manager of a symphony orchestra. He tries to hear >at least four concerts a year. Assuming that at each concert the orchestra >plays a minimum of three pieces, what are the chances that Horace can avoid >hearing a single work by Mozart, Beethoven, or Brahms in the next ten years? > >8. Betty plays in the viola section. Despite her best efforts she is unable >to play with the rest of the orchestra and, on average, plays .35 seconds >behind the rest of the viola section, which is already .16 seconds behind the >rest of the orchestra. If the orchestra is moving into a new concert hall >with a reverberation time of 2.7 seconds, will she be able to continue >playing this way undetected? > >9. Ralph loves to drink coffee. Each week he drinks three more cups of >coffee that Harold, who drinks exactly one third the amount that the entire >brass section consumes in beer. How much longer is Ralph going to live? > >10. Rosemary is unable to play in keys with more than three sharps without >making an inordinate number of mistakes. Because her colleagues in the cello >section are also struggling in these passages she has so far been able to >escape detection. What is the total number of hours they would all have to >practice to play the complete works of Richard Strauss?
