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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2005-04-12 18:45
I really want to enter the Young Artists Competition at the OU Clarinet Symposium. This is the only year I can enter because I turn 18 in December, so I can't enter the competition next year. This will also be the first competition that I have ever entered outside of All-State Band (if that counts?) I am working DILIGENTLY on this piece and just started really cracking down on it 2 days ago. I've played through it some before just for fun, but now I am really trying to get it all mechanically correct along with adding musical flair and style.
Any advice for entering a competition like this?
Any advice on this piece?
Do I actually have any chance at making semi-finals?
What are the kids that get into the semi-finals like? (playing wise, etc.)
Any advice and comments would be greatly appreciated.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-04-12 21:40
See http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=12410&t=12410 ,
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=82251&t=82087
and various other postings you will find by using Mark's wonderful search function.
The Solo de Concours is a lot more difficult than it looks or should sound. I'm not sure whether Rabaud was a clarinetist, but he either didn't know what lies well or set out, in a solo de concours (contest piece) to test the ability of the competitors.
The first recording, by August Perier, is spectacularly good. It's been reissued on LP by Grenadilla and on CD. It's on Rich Gilbert's historical CD label, which I think is called Grenadilla, but may be out of print.
The opening cadenza has to be more than fast notes. You have to make music, as Perier does in his recording. Each group of notes must be a single gesture, leading out of the previous gesture and into the next.
Ken Shaw
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