Klarinet Archive - Posting 000268.txt from 2004/04

From: CBA <clarinet10001@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] URGENT: Need Accompanist (Boston area)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:22:46 -0400

Bryan,

Probably not what you want to hear, but the colleges in Boston
(from what I can see online) have finals the week following the
April 24th date you have for the competition. Iam presuming you
are in North Carolina (from your resume) so itwill be hard to
find someone to commit to a competition with a week to go, and
without having you in the city to rehearse. Here are some
possibilities though...

You may want to call *major* churches in the Boston area, the
American Guild of Organists at

http://www.agohq.org/home.html

and/or the local music union at

http://www.bostonmusicians.org/

for information on accompanying professionals. Also try the
Boston Symphony Orchestra at

http://www.bso.org/

for information on their chorus accompanist (all major symphony
choruses have full time accompanists for chorus rehearsals prior
to the symphony concerts.)

and also Tanglewood at

http://www.bso.org/armsOfBSO.jhtml;jsessionid=QY3K51YCVBQXNLA1AUHCFEQ?catName=Tanglewood&area=tgl

Lastly, try contacting the clarinet teachers at the Boston
schools directly, instead of the accompanying or piano faculty.
They might have some specific people in mind who do work for
their students for recitals who are already familiar with the
works you suggested.

I remember being in college (really I do...no cracks! lol) and
have seen similar things such as this for the week preceding
finals in colleges (the few people willing to do things like
this the week before finals were booked 6 months ago.)

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds - Computer Geek
New York City

P.S. The Tomasi might be a rough ride for the accompanist, but
the Finzi Concerto piano reduction is pretty scary for the
accompanist also. I think your best bet for an accompanist to be
able to handle it would be either getting a direct referal from
a clarinet teacher or from the symphony, since those
accompanists are used to orchestral reductions. A week before
the competition is going to be a hard sell to even the most
seasoned of accompanists, and a good portion of the accompanists
who *could* learn this music are probably already doing
accompanying for 3 or 4 people a piece for that competition
already.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--- Bryan Crumpler <crumpletox@-----.com> wrote:
> I apologize in advance for any cross postings...
>
> I've been looking for a pianist for over 2 months in the
> Boston/Cambridge,
> MA area to accompany me for a major Young Artist Competition
> audition in
> Arlington, MA on Saturday, April 24th. I appreciate all
> previous responses
> and referrals, but I've contacted the NEC, BC, the BSO, and a
> few other
> people that were suggested and everything has lead to a dead
> end... Here it
> is a week before and still no accompanist.
>
> If anyone knows competent pianists that are either fast
> learners or are
> familiar with clarinet repertoire, PLEAAAAAAASE put them in
> touch with me
> ASAP.
>
> Rep is:
> Crussell - Intro & Var on a Swedish Air
> Finzi - Concerto Mvt II
> Tomasi - Concerto Mvt III
> Arnold - Concerto No. 2 Mvt I (optional: to replace Tomasi if
> too difficult)
>
> Regards,
> Bryan A. Crumpler
>
>
> http://www.whosthatguy.com

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