Klarinet Archive - Posting 000582.txt from 1997/06

From: rteitelbaum@-----.com (Rob Teitelbaum)
Subj: RE: Orchestral Excerpts
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 01:43:00 -0400

Noelle,

Kalman Bloch edited a volume called "The Orchestral Clarinet: A study of
symphonic repertoire" that is in my college's library. I think his
selections to be excellent (at least in Vol. 2, the one the library has),
and his comments very insightful. I may be biased, having studied with
him briefly, but my biased opinion is that this is a very fine
collection. Trouble is, our library is the only place I've ever seen it.
But I know it was published by Boston Music Co., copyright 1987, so maybe
you can go from there. I think the thing I like most is that rather than
breaking up the most commonly-used excerpts across several volumes, as
Kalmus, International and others do to (I think) sell more books, Mr.
Bloch put almost all of them in that one book. I don't know what that
left for Vol. 1, but Vol. 2 was good enough for me.

Speaking of the most commonly-used excerpts, I don't know about music
conservatories, but I've heard from a number of people that most
professional orchestras usually ask for measures 57-75 of the Mozart
Concerto, plus one or more of the following excerpts:

Beethoven's 6th (how soft can you play a D3?:)
Beethoven's 8th
Capriccio Espagnol
Firebird Suite
Midsummer Night's Dream Scherzo
Daphnis et Chloe No. 2 (good luck, you'll need it!)

But this is based on hearsay. Perhaps some of the subscribers who have
had professional auditions could verify or vilify this information?

Rob Teitelbaum
rteitelbaum@-----.com