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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-08-22 01:37
What is your solo for District/Regional Band this year?
In District 12 and 11 in PA it's the Mozart K622 Concerto Mvt 3 (Kell version published by International)
I don't like that edition much at all, but that's what it is!
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Author: mkybrain
Date: 2004-08-22 01:49
ill prolly do a weber concerto....i assume where u live u have to do a certain song.....here we do w/e we like
my friend is starting to arrange music, he arranged a quartet by debussy(i dont remember the namke of it was translated i think as the girl with flaxen hair or something like that) and it sounded really nice, 3 clarinets and a bass clarinet....hes also going to arrange some gershwin, maybe Rhapsody in blue, i can do the slide but getting that together could be difficult
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Author: Camanda
Date: 2004-08-22 01:58
It's Weber's Concertino, Op. 26. I don't remember the edition they recommend, but they let us use any edition.
Amanda Cournoyer
URI Clarinet Ensemble, Bass Clarinet
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Author: mkybrain
Date: 2004-08-22 02:27
o, lol, wow, im sorry, i thought this was for solo and ensemble, my bad....
though for my youth symphony, i was required amongst other things, to play any etude or solo that i wished, i did Rhapsody by Osbourne
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Author: mkybrain
Date: 2004-08-22 02:30
thought actually for our district honor band, they jsut use the all state tryouts from our district to dtermine who goes, they let like 20 more clarinets come than what go to all state, 40 tryout in our district and 12 make it
we use etudes in the back and i think the top line of a a duet from the klose book each year
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Author: Contra
Date: 2004-08-22 02:47
With all the school work that's been assigned, I had completely forgotten about it.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2004-08-22 14:38
What a blast.....many years ago mine was the very difficult "Country Gardens".....
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-08-22 15:14
With all the school work that's been assigned, I had completely forgotten about it.
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I start my students working on it in May usually. That way if there are areas which they need to improve their technique to even play, they have the time to do the hard work.
October (many start then) is way too late to really do a good job learning it.
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-08-22 22:15
arranging music is like swiming with sharks ... a dangerous thing to do unless done safely. If you are arranging music (without permission of the pubilsher/copyright holder) that is in copyright currently (including Debussy and Gershwin) you are breaking the law ... food for thought.
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-08-22 23:08
It is/may be but nobody checks on it. Unless you are performing it in public or distributing you won't ever have a single problem.
That being said, of course you probably should stick to pre 1922 just to be safe. It's always best to stay within the law to prevent any possible situation that may occur.
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Author: mkybrain
Date: 2004-08-22 23:20
ok, i honestly don't think the cops are gonna come busting into the band room after marchinbg practice to hear us playing a quartet arranged by one of my friends and say, "hey!!!! isn't that song by debussy under copy right law!!? ur coming withg me buddy"
i think my friend and I are safe from getting fined
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2004-08-22 23:37
mkybrain wrote:
> ok, i honestly don't think the cops are gonna come busting into
> the band room after marchinbg practice to hear us playing a
> quartet arranged by one of my friends and say, "hey!!!! isn't
> that song by debussy under copy right law!!? ur coming withg
> me buddy"
I think you should be aware, that under US law, what you're doing is exactly the same as stealing, whether or not you agree with the law.
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Author: mkybrain
Date: 2004-08-22 23:53
well, let me make it clear that im not doing it, im jsut playing the stuff with him
but seriously.....if my friend merely takes a piece, rewrites it for 3 clarinets and a bass clarinet or what have you, and we play it a few times, its just the same as lets say, my teacher letting me borrow one of her cds to burn.......yes, it is against the law....but is there actually any way i or my friend can get caught
if there is a way that he can get caught, since we are only playing it after band practice in the band room, or at someone's house, id be fascinated to know how that is
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2004-08-23 00:03
mkybrain wrote:
> but seriously.....if my friend merely takes a piece, rewrites
> it for 3 clarinets and a bass clarinet or what have you, and we
> play it a few times, its just the same as lets say, my teacher
> letting me borrow one of her cds to burn.
That's something that does get caught.
> against the law....but is there actually any way i or my friend
> can get caught
The odds are incredibly small that anyone'd notice, but it doesn't change anything.
We get in these discussions often; while I think the term lengths of copyright are heinous nowadays, it doesn't change anything just because of what I think. I help fight the good fight by supporting Eric Eldred - http://eldred.cc/ - but that also entails making sure that if we want to change things that we remain scrupously "clean".
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-08-23 00:47
Guys - let's stay out of the copyright issue in this thread. It's about Regional Band Auditions. If you want to debate copyright, please start your own thread so that it can get shut down eventually 
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Author: mkybrain
Date: 2004-08-23 01:29
agreed david, i won't continue this any further, though ill still be burning cds and playing illegaly arranged music and making metallica's life more miserable than it already is
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-08-23 01:34
Thanks
Just in case ya didn't know (how would you?) - my Brother-in-Law was the Attorney who wrote the legal brief for the Napster Case representing A&M, Geffen and Interscope Records.
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Author: Topher
Date: 2004-08-23 22:56
In an attempt to get things back on track...
In District five (PMEA) it is Weber Concertino. For the bass it is Andante and Allegro by Yvonne Desportes. Out of cursiosity, what are some of the other bass solos out there? There seems to be minimal literature for the big guys of the clarinet family, so I'm curious if there are "standard" bass audition pieces.
topher
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Author: Camanda
Date: 2004-08-23 23:52
Bass clarinet audition piece is Bassi/Voxman - Lamento. I was going to audition on bass, but my bass is giving me hell again.
Does anyone else's All-State/region/etc. band not allow people to audition on alto clarinet? Mine just put that regulation in this year.
Amanda Cournoyer
URI Clarinet Ensemble, Bass Clarinet
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Author: Bigno16
Date: 2004-08-24 02:12
I live in Brockton, MA.
LAST YEAR
Districts: Mozart - Concerto for Clarinet, Mvmt 1
All-States: Brahms - Sonata No. 2 in Eb Major, All Mvmts
THIS YEAR
Districts: Schumann - Fantasy Pieces, All Mvmts
All-States: Weber - Concertino
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Author: mkybrain
Date: 2004-08-24 12:51
wow i wish my state let us play weber for all state, even though i do alright now i'd do even better
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Author: thechosenone
Date: 2004-08-24 14:57
3 year rotations:
Mozart Concerto, Saint Saens Sonata, Weber Introduction and Rondo
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Author: Topher
Date: 2004-08-24 15:04
Our district does not allow alto clarinets to audition, but I am not sure why. That has apparently been the rule for ages. Region Band last year, however, did have two altos. The were both from the host school and were two of the extra people the host school was allowed to send.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2004-08-25 19:51
"3 year rotations:
Mozart Concerto, Saint Saens Sonata, Weber Introduction and Rondo"
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That's a very good lineup!! What State?
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Author: Contra
Date: 2004-08-25 22:17
I heard today that district isn't requiring a solo this year. I find this odd and I'll need to check on it.
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