hmm... too long discussion to analyse.. I'll just say a word or two...

If everyone regards MPO as the highest standard orchestra in Malaysia and locals are hard to get into MPO as they are not up to standard, then if we, as a musician aim to get into MPO SHOULD work harder to achieve the standard needed. I'm sure you wouldn't want the orchestra to demote their standard just to let more locals in?

I agree that the foreigners are more experience in classical musics and therefore their standard is higher. That's coz there are in the country where classical music originate. Can someone tell me where does Bach/Mozart/Mahler came from? Where do they compose and perform their masterpiece?

The history of music in these western countries are by far more longer and deeper than locals. Of coz the musician from there are able to be expose to the classicals music in a more wider area than here.

However, that doesn't mean that locals doesn't have a chance against them. I'm just saying that we are growing. We are learning. We are all learning from them. So, take them as a motivation and work our path up to the MPO stage! Do Malaysia PROUD! Make it one day, the whole MPO consist of MALAYSIAN but keep the standard up, or even make it better than the origin!

Our classical music history is still very young compare to the foreigners therefore, don't be discourage. It should be an encouragement that one day, our Malaysia classical music industry would be one of the top in the world. I'm sure it is all local musician dream. So, let's make it happened instead of demoting ourselves.

This post has been edited by cassiemissy: Jun 29 2010, 09:39 AM