Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 1995/03

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Firebird question
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 07:42:49 -0500

>The newest Firebird part has a few bad page turns as well that one must
>content with.
>
>But, the important question here is--
>You arrive to an audition with Firebird on the stand in front of you, you
>glance over the part and see that those notes are there before 17 in the
>Variation. Do you play them or leave them out??
>
>A similiar question--
>You arrive to another audition with Firebird, same deal, except this time
>it is the up to date part, BUT with the notes before 17 penciled in. Do
>you play them or leave them out?? (This one actually happenned to me).
>
>One final question--
>Taking this beyond just the Firebird excerpt in question, what if you
>notice the parts supplied on your stand at an audition have penciled
>changes in articulation, phrasing; and they are different than the
>wonderful Urtext score you learned the excerpt from. What do you play?
>
>I assume there are no correct answers, I would like to know how other
>players have dealt with these situations.
>
>Christopher Zello
>czello@-----.edu

In all cases, play it correctly and inform the judges that you are playing
it correctly and the part they have supplied is incorrect.

Jonathan Cohler
cohler@-----.net