Klarinet Archive - Posting 000817.txt from 2004/01

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <u_cant_kill_the_rooster@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Solo and Ensemble (Festival)
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:10:19 -0500

I went to the WV solos and Ensembles for 3 years. I got a superior every
time. Once I even stopped and cried and I still got the superior. I had to
stop because I had a cold and my band director made me play anyway and my
throat couldn't handle it anymore. The judge told me to take a drink of
water and I started around where I had stopped.

As for the solo, my band director told me that I was doing good and told me
to work on it at my lesson today and if I wasn't comfortable, then I could
play the Weber Concertino or another solo that I know.

-Rebecca

>From: "Don Hatfield" <dhatfield@-----.org>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: Re: [kl] Solo and Ensemble (Festival)
>Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:03:12 -0500
>
>Here in WV the Solo and Ensemble Festivals referred to by Rebecca are the
>MENC-sanctioned, adjudicated regional events. It's open to grades 9-12, and
>any student soloist or group/ensemble receiving a I-Superior at the
>regional
>level then can submit a tape of their performance to the WV All-State
>Committee, which selects a handful of performers who appear at the annual
>WVMEA convention in April as featured recitalists.
>
>Rebecca - I did the Rossini in college with wind ensemble and with a
>pianist, and the band score we used had a choice of two different portions
>cut for various reasons. The only one of the two I remember without looking
>jumped from the end of the next-to-last variation to about twenty bars
>before the cadenza in the end of the final variation - I can dig out my
>old
>marked copy and tell you for sure. That last variation I think was cut in
>our score by someone who just had trouble playing the solo in the past, and
>I reinserted it for our performances. Just a thought. I do remember that
>the
>cut was very natural and fit the piece nicely if it was used.
>
>Don Hatfield
>
>
>
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