Wait a minute. When you said: Symphony, I thought you meant write A symphony, not write for a full symphony orchestra. What about the classical composers here? You might want to re-think that part of it, because if I were to compete in this, I would want to use my own instrumentation. And besides, it says:
"Skill must be shown in areas of: development of themes, cohesiveness, creativity,
instrumentation, overall effect, and score preparation. The music will be submitted in any form, with a stress on the score, not on a sound file. "
How can this be an a part of the scoring when we have our orchestra set up for us? I just think that maybe we should be allowed to have our own instrumentation for our own styles.
