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 Audition piece suggestions
Author: clarijen 
Date:   2008-06-10 01:02

I am auditioning for a symphony orchestra in a couple of months and I'm looking for suggestions for pieces to play... the orchestra is a community orchestra but I'm expecting the standard to be quite high. I need two contrasting short excerpts, unaccompanied. I had planned to play (some of) the Weber concertino, simply because I prepared it for another audition recently, but need something else that contrasts nicely with that. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your input!



Post Edited (2008-06-10 18:17)

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 Re: Audition piece suggestions
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2008-06-10 01:13

What pieces do you know?

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 Re: Audition piece suggestions
Author: Ed Palanker 
Date:   2008-06-10 02:31

Well, Mozart is always nice, most common for regular auditions. Other wise, Brahms, Debussy, Stravinsky, Copland or any other standard clarinet piece. ESP
www.peabody.jhu.edu/457 (check out my Mozart 5tet, m1)

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 Re: Audition piece suggestions
Author: clarijen 
Date:   2008-06-10 02:52

Thanks - I know both the Brahms sonatas quite well, but I thought maybe they depended a bit too much on the piano to play unaccompanied. Mozart doesn't contrast too well with Weber, plus it's played so frequently that I doubt my rendering would do it justice ;-)

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 Re: Audition piece suggestions
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2008-06-10 03:04

Debussy Rhapsodie

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 Re: Audition piece suggestions
Author: clarinetguy55 
Date:   2008-06-10 03:05

A part of any movement of the Mozart Concerto.

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 Re: Audition piece suggestions
Author: Keith P 
Date:   2008-06-10 04:47

Have you thought about preparing actual excerpts such as Schubert Unfinished or perhaps the second movement of Brahms 3rd Symphony?

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 Re: Audition piece suggestions
Author: hartt 
Date:   2008-06-10 05:56

yes, a compilation of excerpts, including:

Rachmaninoff symphony #2

Peter and the wolf

Daphnis et Chloe suite 2

Bolero

etc.


D

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 Re: Audition piece suggestions
Author: claritoot26 
Date:   2008-06-10 12:44

Is that for Columbia Orchestra, by any chance? Many good suggestions above. Debussy would contrast nicely with Weber. Even Mozart could, depending on which part of Concertino and which part of Mozart you play. If you play a fast variation from Concertino and the Adagio movement from Mozart, that would work.

Lori

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 Re: Audition piece suggestions
Author: clarijen 
Date:   2008-06-10 13:09

Thanks everyone for the useful suggestions. I had considered orchestral excerpts but don't have the sheet music for them to hand. I will have a look at some of those ideas.

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 Re: Audition piece suggestions
Author: DavidBlumberg 
Date:   2008-06-10 13:15

Orchestral sheet music ROMs give you a ton of music on a CD rom.

Consider getting one of those.

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