[blindkid] Music Sight Reading for Competition

[Bonnie Lucas]

Aubrie has participated in the All State competition for the past two years.
She has been given the pieces that she needs to learn close to the beginning
of the year and she begins to learn them. She works very hard to get it as
sounding as good as possible. As far as the sight reading goes, she is given
the piece in Braille and allowed to look at it for a few minutes. Then, she
sings the notes as she reads them. This way, the her playing skills are
evaluated when she plays the piece she has memorized. Her sight reading
skills are evaluated when she "sight sings," after looking at the Braille
music. If they would like to do a little more evaluating, the judges could
actually have her read the notes to them before or after she sings them as
well. I can share some emails that I wrote in trying to work out all these
details if you like. Just contact me off line. 
Bonnie

-----Original Message-----
From: Sally Thomas [mailto:seacknit at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:05 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List, (for parents of blind children)
Subject: [blindkid] Music Sight Reading for Competition

Would someone care to share their blind kid's experience with state band
competitions that involved sight reading?  How did the student prepare for
the competition and how did the competition organizers handle having a blind
student in the competition?   


Thanks.

Sally Thomas