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Author: gregbaker112@gmail.com
Date: 2013-07-31 16:15
What exactly is sight reading for a professional orchestral audition? The NY Phil. audition list from a few years ago states the sight reading may be asked "from the standard orchestral repertoire." Therefore you can prepare ahead of time and show your ability and knowledge of the repertoire not asked on the list.
Has anyone ever taken a professional audition where literal "sight reading" (something you have never seen before) has been asked?
Also are ensemble repertoire lists posted on websites or repertoire from upcoming concerts good indicators of possible sight reading examples (of the first category)?
I have never taken a professional audition before and am planning for a community orchestra audition next year. Thanks in advance.
Greg Baker
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Post Edited (2013-07-31 16:25)
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Author: William
Date: 2013-07-31 19:10
Most auditions I have taken involved some degree of "sight" reading, supposedly, music not seen before. They are simply trying to discover how quick a study you are--how long it might take you to prepare music for a performance. In college, for two years, I sat next to a clarinetist who had just left the US Navy Band (Washington) and no matter what music was passed out nor how difficult, I never heard him make a mistake. For fun, he used to turn music upside down and read it that way--never missing a note. My point is that sight reading is an advantage that audition committee's like to investigate and you should be prepared. He said he always tried to look ahead of what he was playing--"simple" as that, lol.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2013-07-31 20:39
I've taken many auditions in my life, not in the past 40 years though. I've been on several audition committees for my orchestra, the BSO as well. Sight reading has always meant knowing the other standard repertoire. That's usually given, if at all, in the finals and it's been my experience that it's not even given then in many cases. I think in part, it depends on how long the list is given. Consider yourself lucky, when I took my auditions in the 60s and early 70s there was no such thing as a list. You learned everything you could and hope there wasn't something given that you didn't know.
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