ANN ARBOR, Mich. – It was 9:30 on a Saturday night and Carol Jantsch was at an ultimate Frisbee tournament when her cell phone rang with an audition invitation from the Philadelphia Orchestra, one of America's finest symphonies. Almost one year later, after beating out 195 other musicians during an arduous tryout process, the 21-year-old University of Michigan senior is the first woman – and perhaps the youngest person ever – to earn a tuba seat with a top-five U.S. symphony.
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