Klarinet Archive - Posting 000638.txt from 2003/02

From: "Kent Krive" <k.krive@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Live Auditions on our local "Public Library" Channel 17
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:51:27 -0500

Would this be www.classicartsshowcase.org?

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From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subject: [kl] Live Auditions on our local "Public Library" Channel 17

> Anne Lenoir wrote,
> >I was watching our local library TV Station 17,
> >and they were playing a broadcast of a live audition
> >for a youth symphony somewhere. It the location and
> >name of the clarinetist went by before I could remember
> > it. The young lady playing the clarinet was absolutely
> >superb. [snip] All I can remember (I think) is that her
> >last name is VAM, and she was auditioning for a youth
> >symphony, playing the first movement of Mozart K-622.
>
> I think you saw an RCA video, "The Audition," made several years ago with
> Sharon Kam. James Judd conducts the European Community Youth Orchestra on
> the soundtrack. If it's the same video I'm thinking of, the scene is a
> small auditorium with three judges (two men and one woman; the woman
> smokes) sitting at a table in the audience. Dark-haired, conservatively
> dressed Sharon Kam stands alone on the raised stage, flanked by two large
> speakers playing her recorded orchestral accompaniment. She uses a
> clarinet in A with a black fabric reverse ligature. She looks completely
> impassive, with her face nearly expressionless, but calm and confident,
and
> no wonder, because the playing is, as Anne says, professional quality.
> (Kam has released several recordings now, including one of the Mozart
> concerto.)
>
> As she plays, the scene shifts several times to other competitors, who
look
> like college students, waiting their turns. One young man in a washroom
> plays his violin along with the orchestral tutti. The rest of the
> competitors look tense, even grim, as they silently listen to Kam through
> speakers. The others probably measure their chances against her killer
> performance.
>
> Meanwhile, when the camera shows what I interpret to be Kam's point of
> view, she doesn't always see the judges. Instead, sometimes the camera
> shows what I think the viewer is meant to perceive as her imagination:
> people, some of them in period costumes and others in modern dress who
look
> as though they might be her teacher and members of her family, stand
around
> in the auditorium, listening to her approvingly. The ones in costumes
> include Mozart, Salieri and Colloredo -- the last two hold up signs with
> their names! It's a fascinating video because Kam's carefully
disciplined,
> "Don't show 'em anything" face never reveals the slightest hint of this
> vivid mental picture. I've seen this video on the Classic Arts Showcase
> channel on Cox Cable. That channel's website is
> www.classicartsshowcase.net.
>
> Lelia Loban
> lelialoban@-----.net
> Please note new address!
>
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