Klarinet Archive - Posting 000039.txt from 2006/06

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] Exams
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:31:07 -0400

Next Saturday one of my students will take the practical part of the
examination for her first, so-called "A"-diploma, she passed already the
theoretical part of it, with excellent figures.

To put things into perspective: we know four exams (you guess it: A, B, C
and D). In principle these are taken every two years, in practice only the
very gifted can fulfill this requirement, most students need three or more
years per examination. D-exam is conservatory entry level (but does not
replace the entry exams of conservatories).

I wonder who is more stressed by it: she or me, but probably me. She is
convinced she'll make it, but I am worried about her counting. In "Friends
for life" she has to hold notes for 4 or 5 counts, and there is a problem.
And recently she developed squeaks, not with the register break, but e.g.
between c and e.

She has a program with a duet "for high and low" (in which I'll play the
claribass), from the book of Demnitz she will play an adagio (I am not sure
whether it is the number three or five adagio: she plays it from Pamela
Weston's book), then from a book by the Dutchman Jan van Beekum she will
play a march, and finally she will play the already mentioned "Friends for
life", written by "Dizzy Stratford" that I think is actually Jacob de Haan.

Please keep fingers crossed. I had several students pass A- or B-diploma
exams, both on clarinet and saxophone, but never I was as stressed as I am
now!

Ciao

Rien

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