Klarinet Archive - Posting 000233.txt from 2004/07

From: Tski1128@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Bumbled auditions
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:31:36 -0400

And one of the important things call and ask!! Don't ask the list if you should play Fight of the Bee, call the teacher at the school your audtioning for, I garauntee they will tell you what they want and need to hear. And I have to tell you as a teacher and someone who hires people for lots of gigs, when someone asks me what I would prefer and then attempts to give it to me, they are way ahead of the ones that didn't ask or the ones that asked and then didn't listen! -- Tom Puwalski, author of "The Clarinetist's guide to Klezmer", former clarinet soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with Lox&vodka and clarinetist with the hotest new klezmer band out there " The

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