Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 1999/11

From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mozart as an audition piece
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 15:13:40 -0500

LeliaLoban@-----.com wrote:

>
> How long do professional applicants get to play without interruption? I
> haven't auditioned for anything since high school, but I remember that
> generally at student competitions and seat-jumps, on the rare occasions where
> we got to play music of our own choice, the director (or the chairperson of
> the committee) would look at the score, say, "start at measure
> such-and-such," then cut off most people with a crisp "Thank you," after
> about two minutes. The serious contenders got maybe five minutes, maximum.
> I wasted a lot of practice time on trying to scope out which five minutes the
> director would demand!
>
> Lelia
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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In my sinful youth, I did an audition in Spain. There were a few foriegners there
including one man from communist Yugoslavia whom I got to talk to a bit. He had a
position in an orchestra there and wanted to "go west". He had travelled two days
to get there.

Well, there were about 30 - 40 (if I remember correctly) of us there. I played
fairly soon (Mozart concerto, of course!) so I listened to the rest of the
candidates. When the committee had heard enough, they rang a loud bell
(gruesome!). All candidates that I heard (including myself) played up to the end
of the exposition. All of them but one. The Yugoslavian played no more than eight
bars when the bell sounded.

David

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