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Is a slow concertino better?

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2003-12-13 02:47

I'm supposed to perform the concertino this upcoming tuesday for lesson evaluations. The head piano teacher of our school is playing the piano part for me (I guess it's a hard piano part) and is doing very well for sightreading it. However the three times I've ran it through with him, the tempos have been very slow. The tempo for the first part is great. Dead on. Then it drops to about 70 beats per second for the initial theme. Then about 60 and it seems to remain around there or maybe even SLOWER for all the parts that are supposed to be fast and exciting.

And I'm finding myself going nuts trying to keep my fingers that slow. I've practiced it for so long to get it at a 'normal' tempo and now it just seems to drag along. I did a runthrough at his master class where the class was nice enough to compliment me on my tone and how I was able to really get the feeling of the dark parts versus the lighter more upbeat parts and all I could think was, "Yeah. You should hear how much of a difference it'd make if I was actually ALLOWED to play it upbeat and peppy!"

Is it wrong for me to suggest to the piano player to please keep the tempo faster? Particularly at those exciting parts? I find myself getting ahead and staying constantly on the edge. I even tried to make a slight increase in speed during playing hoping he would catch up but by the time we started to make progress it was back to a part he played alone and he slipped back into a slower speed.

Also, do you think I can accomplish getting him to speed up and hopefully remember to go a little faster by Tuesday? Is it worth even asking or should I clench my jaw and just accept that it's gonna have to lose the little sizzle I could give to it?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Alexi

Retired, playing more sax than clarinet, but still playing clarinet and still loving it!

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sfalexi

2003-12-13 02:47