Klarinet Archive - Posting 000124.txt from 2001/01

From: Tski1128@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] audition pieces.
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:06:03 -0500

I tell you the Army has this tuition payoff deal it's like 50-60,000 dollars.
They will pay off that much in student loans. That makes a 3yr stint really
worth it. Unless you're playing in the Chicago Symphony. Then I would just
default on then!! only kidding! Saying that I was amazed at how many
clarinetists would show up to an audition, owe $50,000+ in student loans for
masters and doctoral stuff and not have basic comand over their instrument!
A pretty sound, solid technique, and above average articulation, and gerneral
musicality. I had to sit through alot of auditons that were really boring! I
think it's all about the basics, I can count on one hand the players I've
listened to over the last 10 years that had them (the basics) down. They all
got hired! If I had my way, the Field band audition would have been Mozart
Concerto, and 2 rose etudes one fast one slow. I could have made the audition
shorter, so as to not listen to the boring players, and the non boring
players still would have had enough to play. Lets take one piece that's on
the USAFB audition, Force of Desteny. There is a slow clarinet solo on the
first page, it is slow, it needs to be expresive, and what knocks people out
of the running is not being able to play the long B to the throat A intune.
To have a chance of getting a gig like this you have to KNOW how your
instrument tunes, be able to hear it, feel it, know it. Not look on a tuner
to see if it is intune. This is one of those places that even the officers
can tell the intonation isn't right. Sorry for the rant, if there is anybody
taking the USAFB audition let me know.

Tom Puwalski, the artist formerly known as Sarge, busting his butt to finish
his klezmer book on time

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