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I don't mean to stir up trouble, but I still believe that an anonymous competition is more exciting and meaningful than one in which each participant is known. I think it is possible to try to have an in-between person, as has been suggested, to filter the scores and other files. I also don't think that as many people as is thought know everyone's pieces on here. If the pieces are truly going to be so different in style and construction I think this will be an almost impossible competition to decide. maybe the guidelines need to be even stricter. How much weight is going to be assigned to the "plan" for the other movements? How much are features such as orchestration, score presentation, etc going to be considered. I think there are a lot of issues that need to be worked out. I also think it is necessary to have guidelines for the judging and also for a way for the judges to correspond. Each participant should get a review of his/her composition as well. I think it would also be nice if we had experienced conductors as well as an "expert" judge in each section, woodwinds, brass, percussion, strings, to give their feedback as to how playable this music will be. Anyway, these are just a few ideas that I've been thinking about. I think we should try to make this a fair and exciting competition. It is such an ambitious project that it deserves such treatment.
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