Ruth Ann Scanzillo
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Honey, do YOU remember the big kerfluffle at the Indianapolis International String Competition a few years ago? There was a judge actually on panel who had entered private students in the competition; the IISC defense was: each judge knows the rules, said rules being clearly established in print ahead of the adjudications, and said rules clearly stating that NO bias toward any student is permitted. I remember entering a comment, someplace in print, to the effect that any string instructor worth his or her salt and sensory apparatus could SURELY identify his or her private student within the first two notes sounded on the instrument!!! Hence, no bias could, in real time or in any artistic reality, be PREVENTED.

    Ruth Ann Scanzillo

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    Ruth Ann Scanzillo is a 25 year Baby Boomer veteran of public arts education w/34 years as symphonic cellist and chamber pianist; now, writing seems important.