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Re: Auditions

Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2016-05-25 02:33

Reading Knopper describe his experiences at a string edition, I wonder how much better or worse clarinet players have to be at similar classical audition venues to get the job.

I guess I mean to say, if we could somehow quantify how good a string player has to be, and how much work that takes (sure it's different for everyone) and compare that to the clarinetist, and the work it took said wind player, I wonder how intense each instrument's audition experience is.

A part of me wants to think--perhaps because it's self serving, that the number of clarinet players, divided by available paid slots in the classical space, is such a higher ratio than for string players, that clarinetists (and other woodwind players) have to be....."even better."

This is not to put down the virtuosity of many string players. This sounded like a crazy intense audition--I just can't imagine what its like for wind players.

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