Klarinet Archive - Posting 000093.txt from 2004/11

From: "D. Blumberg" <FilmPromotion@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Problem with the Mozart Concerto
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:49:10 -0500

The student is pretty advanced - participated in the Kimmel Center
Quintet Summer program and as a freshman made All-Catholic (so no
nervous rookie). Other students were talking to each other about the
differences too. Beyond the layout there were many articulation
changes (more slurs in this version). I'm District 11&12 PMEA so am
quite familiar with what they do (this was All Catholic) but they do
go with the PMEA pieces and rules (supposedly) too.
I do tell my students to go into the audition with a pencil and to
write on their OWN part where the audition is to be played so that
they are looking at a visually familiar sight (sometimes the audition
will be on a copy or cut out excerpts - I did a Phila. Orch Audition
back in the early 90's that the music provided was basically cut outs
of the parts).

Yup - right away I asked him to get me the # of the org. They need to
hear about this one! I tell my kids to be prepared for anything, but
that one was way out of left field.

David B.

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"Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] Problem with the Mozart Concerto
Message-ID: <NPEJJAIGAEPPEHNFBAGDCEPICAAA.karlkrelove@-----.net>

This was at best a clumsy lapse by the judges, at worst an ignorant
lack of
knowledge of or interest in the organization's own rules. Students
are, in
all the similar auditions I've been involved with, shown in and out by
a
room monitor/proctor - usually a non-auditioning student from the
school
hosting the audition. Our students at PennaMEA and our local Bucks
County
MEA auditions are told not to speak in the room (to avoid potentially
identifying themselves to the judges, who have their backs to the
students)
but, if necessary to ask the proctor any questions out of the judge's
earshot. The proctor will ask the judges if the question hasn't
already come
up and been answered before.

That said, I suspect that the marked up copy on the stand was only
meant to
show the auditionees where to start and stop. It *should* have been
the
prescribed edition, if for no other reason than the page layout was
probably
different. If for some reason a copy couldn't be provided for the
audition,
the judges *should* have made an explicit statement to each student
either
orally themselves (the judges can always talk so long as they don't
look) or
through the proctor or even with a sign posted on the stand next to
the
mark-up telling the students to play the prescribed edition. In our
auditions each student is required to have a published copy (not a
Xerox) of
the piece, so no student should be able to say he/she doesn't have
music to
play.

Assuming your student wasn't so nervous that he missed instruction
that was
given about this, if everyone was thrown in the same way, his relative
position may still be what it should have been. You might bring it up
directly with whoever organized the audition in case
he/she isn't yet aware there was a problem. At least the organization
may be
more careful next year.

Karl Krelove

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