Klarinet Archive - Posting 000182.txt from 1996/05

From: niethamer@-----.EDU
Subj: Re: audition pieces
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 21:48:47 -0400

Ed Lacy wrote:

> I have sat on several audition committees for various woodwind
> instruments, and what I hear most often played for the selected solo is
> the Mozart Concerto, whether the instrument is clarinet, oboe, bassoon
> or flute (the D Major one in the last instance). In fact, we have often
> _specified_ that the Mozart be the solo selection, rather than leaving
> it up to the candidate to choose. Normally, the exposition of the first
> movement is all that time will allow the committee to hear, but I would
> recommend that you have all of it prepared, just in case. In a later
> round, you might be asked to play some of the slow movement, or some
> other part.

Leon Russianoff would tell us "Even if they say 'solo of the candidate's
choice' they want the Mozart Concerto.

What Ed says about the usefulness of any of the Mozart concerti is so.
I've been on a few committees with the Richmond Symphony, and it usually
takes about 5 measures to size up a player from a Mozart concerto.

David Niethamer

   
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