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Author: GBK
Date: 2009-01-01 00:50
I looked at the music and would probably play the octave skips as follows:
F#5 to F#6:
Play the F#5: TR x x x / x o I o
Play the F#6: TR x x o (RH side Eb key) / o o o
or
Play the F#5: TR x x x / o x o
Play the F#6: TR x x o (RH side Eb key) / o o o
E5 to E6:
Play the E5: TR x x x / x x o
Play the E6: TR (w/throat G# key) x x x / o o o
There are other possibilities, but these are fairly easy to try ...GBK
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Author: Jack Stewart
Date: 2009-01-01 02:05
Thanks GBK.
That fingering for E6 really helps a lot with sounding. I'm still having problems going between the F#'s though. I suppose it'll just be something I'll have to get used to. Practice, practice, practice!
You're gonna audition too, right? =D
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2009-01-01 05:50
Here is another possibility for F# (like GBK I'm using 'I' for the banana key).
lower F#: R T x x x x o I o
Higher F#: R T o x o o o I o
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Author: Jack Stewart
Date: 2009-01-01 15:29
I think I'll use GBK's E fingerings and Jack's F# fingerings. Thanks for the help guys!
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Author: kev182
Date: 2009-03-03 11:36
that guy from Spain.... O_o
Post Edited (2009-03-03 11:36)
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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2009-03-03 12:10
OMG I'm so shocked I just can't believe it. NO I'm not shocked or surprised about anything here. I could tell from the movement I heard those 4 players that they would be selected.
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2009-03-03 13:30
Ana Catalina Ramirez - claricat I thought was really good. Also Marco Mazzini very good.
Other 2 I didn't care for. The guy (vrl 1986) to me sounded like he was playing on a popsickle stick for a reed.
I wonder how many pros auditioned for it? (if any others)
http://www.SkypeClarinetLessons.com
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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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Author: Joarkh
Date: 2009-03-04 17:46
Regarding the supposed reed trouble of VRL1986, isn't is possible that he will sound different in an orchestra or in a concert hall, as mentioned in the thread "Finding 'your' tone"? As some of you already have stated, his playing was after all good in the other aspects.
Joar
Clarinet and saxophone teacher, clarinet freelancer
Post Edited (2009-03-04 17:48)
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Author: marcomazzini
Date: 2009-04-21 09:13
Hello everyone!
I'm just back home after a great experience with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in New York - I think we all know that the full concert can be watched in YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/symphony?blend=1&ob=4
It was very challenging to perform so many constrasting pieces - tough myself as a bass clarinetist didn't play in many of them (but I was asked and I did play Eb clarinet in Mason Bates' piece).
The four clarinetist of the YTSO made a video just hours before the concert, and in case you want to hear us sharing our experience, this is the link (with English subtitles):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXmigG6e2uc
I can assure you that my colleagues were first class clarinetists - Soo -Young (Korea) played first clarinet in all the pieces, she did just great. The quality of videos sometimes makes no justice to the musicians - Ana Catalina and Victor are fantastic players too!
For the rest, this was a great idea and I'm glad to see that "classical music" is news all over the world!
Saludos,
Marco Antonio Mazzini
Post Edited (2009-04-21 10:39)
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Author: Dileep Gangolli
Date: 2009-04-21 13:24
Marco,
Congrats to you and the three others in the clarinet section for in participating in this unique event!
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Author: marcomazzini
Date: 2009-04-21 19:34
Dileep Gangolli wrote:
> Marco,
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> Congrats to you and the three others in the clarinet section
> for in participating in this unique event!
Thank you!! It was just an amazing experience.
Saludos,
Marco Antonio Mazzini
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