These things ALWAYS leave the readers with more questions. On Harvard website, it directs you to Slideroom for detailed instruction. Here's the Slideroom instruction on how to submit musical performance materials:
"You may submit recent audio recordings or composition scores, with audio performance if possible. Include titles and date created or performed. Please submit solo recordings only, or pieces with unobtrusive accompaniment. Please do not submit videos of recitals or ensemble performances."
Okay, so I get that they prefer "audio" submission. What confuses me is the "unobstrusive accompaniment" part. I've never heard this phrase used before. What does or does not constitute "unobstrusive"? For my violinist son, 99% of all auditions have been accompanied by piano. Is THAT obstrusive? I'm very careful here by necessity because my son was once disqualified from a pre-screening audition stage, all the more painful because he learned from the director that he was the top performer, because his audition video had piano accompaniment. He had to wait a whole year to re-audition for this simple misunderstanding. It seems like they prefer no accompaniment of any kind, but my son has already done the recording with a piano accompaniment and it'd make his life much easier to submit that than re-record it without any accompaniment. Anyone with experience on this issue?
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