Klarinet Archive - Posting 000155.txt from 1994/11

From: Lorne G Buick - Music TA <lgbuick@-----.CA>
Subj: Re: Audition advice wanted
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 1994 11:21:46 -0500

Greetings-

I probably shouldn't be the one to offer advice on this subject, since
I've only done three auditions in the last nine years and didn't win any
of them (I've been playing in a wind trio full time). But I will steer you
towards someone else's advice which I think highly of: Leon Russianoff.
His "Clarinet Method" has an excellent chapter on legato (ch. 6) which is
highly applicable to Beethoven IV and Schubert VIII. (in fact he uses the
Schubert as an example)

More general advice: listen to more than one recording of each piece
you're studying, especially if one of them is conducted by Bernstein,
Stokowski or von Karajan. (I say this only because their tempos are often
far from the "average".) Listen with the score, not just your excerpt
book. Start collecting complete parts of everything that shows up on
audition lists. Good luck!