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Author: Laur
Date: 2001-02-23 03:42
Hi !
When taking a New York All State Audition, what is to be required ? Is it the typical - Scales, Sight Reading and Solo ?
Laurie
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Author: beth
Date: 2001-02-23 13:41
yes...all the normal things. you must know all major scales, and the just will randomly pick 3 which you must play. for the solo you must select a solo from the NYSSMA manual - Level 6, and it must be preformed with a live or taped piano accomp. basically anything in the advanced clarinet repitiore will be in the NYSSMA manual, level 6...but check anyway...im doing the Mozart clarinet concerto. and the the audition will end with sight reading. have you signed up yet? the auditions begin at the end of march and continue into april...when you go will be determined by where you live.
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Author: Laur
Date: 2001-02-23 15:59
Hi Beth !
Thanks - I am also playing the Mozart clarinet concerto. I wasn't sure if it was different, of it you needed to know how many octaves on your scales or if you needed to know minor or dimished or any of that other ' fun ' stuff. My audition is either on May 4 or May 5.. ( sure they schedule all state on the same day as SAT.. grr, oh well ) okay ! Thanks
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Author: beth
Date: 2001-02-23 18:19
May 4th or 5th?! how i envy you! mine is March 30th or 31st....
oh well...i'll live, good luck with the audition
PS- where in NY are you...long island, the city, upstate?
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Author: Al
Date: 2001-02-23 19:14
Beth,
See your band director on MONDAY. Get the details and be sure he/she signs you up before the deadline. Get the specifics on what's required of you in the level 6 catagory. Check your solo with the current NYSSMA Manual.
Al
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Author: beth
Date: 2001-02-23 21:59
Al,
fear not...i have signed up and am all ready to go...now that the easy stuff is over with...time for the audition...or should i say auditionS...i think im crazy trying to do 3 all-state auditions....
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Author: Laur
Date: 2001-02-23 22:54
I am also signed up - I have a conflict with May 4. ( my HS has an annunal cabret night, and my accompianist is playing for that ) so, I am really hoping that I will get a May 5th audition.
Beth, I'm from Long Island.. you are taking 3 All State auditions ? wow. Good Luck ! I have just All State and Gemeni auditions. So, that will be interesting.
Laur
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-02-24 00:23
I'm also auditioning, with either the Finzi Concerto or the Stravinsky Three Pieces on clarinet and a Beethoven sonata on violin. The scales are a joke- only one octave at a very slow tempo. I got a 98 on level 5 last year and I thought the sightreading was really easy, but the All State reading is probably a lot harder. I have a photocopy of the current NYSSMA manual. If anyone has questions about what solos are on the list, e-mail me.
Auditions are at the end of May in Onondaga County. If you want to put stuff off, come to snowy Syracuse.
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Author: beth
Date: 2001-02-24 03:14
Laur,
neato, im from long island too...and ive heard of Gemeni. being as you're trying out for that, im guessing you live in western suffolk or nassau? my friend from Dix Hills belonged to it before she moved out here to Gaum...er, Miller Place, heh.
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Author: beth
Date: 2001-02-24 12:00
i don't know...every year NYSSMA get earlier and ealier for our area. My first year doing NYSSMA back in '95 (5th grade, ah the memories, lol), it was June. it got progressively earlier (unfortunatly as i got to higher levels and more instruments!) late may(level 3-flute), early may(level 4), late april(level 5-flute, level 4 -sax, level 3 -flute duet), middle april(level 6-flute,level 5-sax,level 4 -clarinet!), early april(last year- All state - flute, level 5 - sax,clarinet,and oboe, level 3 flute duet), late march(this year - All State - flute,oboe,clarinet...Ensembles -Flute Septet(7)(flute 7), WWQuartet(2flute,2clarinet)(2nd clarinet),Sax Quartet(AATB)-1st Alto)
what are you doing this year for NYSSMA? what have you done in the past? just curious :]
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Author: someone
Date: 2001-02-24 20:23
why do people brag so much on sneezy. it really pisses me off.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-02-24 22:00
someone wrote:
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> why do people brag so much on sneezy. it really pisses me
> off.
There is nothing wrong with sharing their successes. I like to hear when people do well.
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Author: Laur
Date: 2001-02-25 05:00
Hi ! This year i'm just doing an All State Audition - on Clarinet.. Mozart's Concerto. Last year was my first year doing it.. I did a level 5 - got a perfect score on it. I went to a private school till 9th grade, where nysmma wasn't offered, and my freshman year i was scared to death of it. Last year.. both my private teacher and my band director cornered me and said YOU ARE DOING NYSSMA ! hehe, Oh well. No regrets.I also play Flute and Saxophone as yourself.. but I like to keep thoes as ' fun ' instrumetns.. i play flute and picc for relazation and sax for jazz, so it's all good.
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Author: beth
Date: 2001-02-25 12:44
good job with the perfect score!! i got like barely a 90 on my clarinet level 5....and ive never gottan a perfect score on anything (besides a duet)...
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Author: To Dee
Date: 2001-02-26 19:32
Braggin is simply a sign of immaturity. Do you enjoy listening to immature people? I guess you're that type of person.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-02-26 21:26
To Dee wrote:
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> Braggin is simply a sign of immaturity. Do you enjoy
> listening to immature people? I guess you're that type of
> person.
No one here has been bragging. They have just been celebrating and sharing with the normal exuberance of the young. You must be a very embittered person to resent other peoples' joy and celebration of success.
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Author: HAHA DEE
Date: 2001-02-27 20:10
You should read the posts by the high schoolers on sneezy. Why don't you do that, then you will understand where you are wrong!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-02-27 21:08
You know, you're a lot worse than those you like to talk about. Maybe your maturity level will catch up to your age someday.
Maybe not.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-02-27 22:00
I have read every single post on this board back to its beginning. So I know exactly what I'm talking about. Not to say there aren't a few bad actors but they are in the vast minority.
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Author: someone
Date: 2001-02-28 05:03
so much ignorance....sigh...how can the world possible exist?!?!?
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