Klarinet Archive - Posting 000365.txt from 1998/08

From: <Cheddar99@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: audition scales
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:13:50 -0400

>Many schools

>provide that the teacher will give a lesson to a promising students - and

>scales can be discussed in a more practical, non-threatening manner with

>these students during the lesson. I know that this is often the case at

>places like University of Illinois, Ohio State, Michigan State, University

>of Oregon, University of Washington, Yale, USC.....the list is fairly

>substantial......of course, audition requirements change from year to

>year, so some of these schools may now require scales and other schools

>not mentioned might not.

University of Oregon does require scales now. That's the main school i'm
audtioning for. but they say that you can be admited without the scales if you
do show a lot of promise, which is good because scales aren't exactly my
strong point...

Karen D
Los Altos, Ca

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