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Re: YouTube Symphony

Author: mrn
Date: 2009-03-03 16:45

DavidBlumberg wrote:

> I wonder how many pros auditioned for it? (if any others)

Quite a few, from what I could tell. Aside from the 5 finalists, there were at least 4 more who I figured out were professionals (or at least had studied clarinet at a conservatory/university). There are probably some more--these were just the ones I bothered to look up on Google.

I'm a little surprised they let the young lady from S. Korea (clalsy) get away with having a "backup band" in her video, since the rules said you weren't allowed to have any accompaniment. One of the other pro players (canthonygo), who I thought played at least as well as she did, had apparently prepared a Mozart video with a piano accompanist but in the end only submitted his Scheherazade excerpts to the audition, presumably because the rules did not allow accompanists. I wonder if he would have had a better chance of making it to the finals if he had submitted his Mozart recording instead of just the Rimsky-Korsakoff.

I thought Ms. Ramirez's performance on the Mendelssohn was excellent. I was very happy to see her win.

It sounded to me like VRL1986 was having reed trouble, too--especially on the Tan Dun video, where I think it caused him to lose control in a spot or two. Like the previous posters, I found the airy tone distracting, but if you can manage to mentally "tune out" the hiss, I think his phrasing was quite musical. I question whether the recording equipment he used made him sound airier than he does in real life. Of the two finalists from Barcelona, though, my favorite was the guy who didn't make it (capdenap).

Although I'm just an amateur player with little chance of being a serious contender for something like this, I actually made my own last minute entry into this contest (literally--I taped it about a half-hour before the submission deadline; I'd have retaped it otherwise, because I made a few flubs that a retape could have fixed). I suppose if I'm going to kibbitz about other folks' videos, though, it's only fair I should open mine up for critique as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1u-RnK1w7A

Post Edited (2009-03-03 17:20)

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