Klarinet Archive - Posting 000143.txt from 2004/10

From: Adam Michlin <amichlin@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinet popularity
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:12:58 -0400

Perhaps I'm missing something, but it would seem you could first ask people
what part they wished to play. If more than X number of people divided by 3
wish to play First Clarinet then set up a reasonable rotation system. If
more than one person wishes to play the First/Solo chair, rotate that, too.
Rotate the entire section, if necessary.

Rotate by piece, rehearsal, concert, phase of the moon, year, whatever
everyone is comfortable with.

Then again, I find playing Third Clarinet is often more challenging. All
those crazy transcriptions of string parts with sixteenths running through
the break at tempo di-you've got to be kidding.

-Adam

At 12:58 PM 10/5/2004 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>I've considered the challenge-for-chairs thing, but I don't know how we
>would even run auditions. Where do you get an impartial judging
>panel? The typical community band doesn't have a cadre of professional
>musicians to draw upon for something like that. Do you leave it up to the
>director? That's enough pressure to cause an ulcer.

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