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Re: Stressful audition time

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-12-11 20:05

Are the orchestral excerpts specified by the auditioners or do you get to choose your own?

The most obvious idea is to use as much as possible material you already know. Certainly you must be able to find etudes you've already learned. If you're choosing the excerpts, pick ones from works you are familiar with.

There's a good deal of repetition in the Mozart. Don't spend all of your time practicing it in sequence. If you need to play the entire movement straight through for the audition, save rehearsing that until you've learned all the separate pieces of it.

If you're learning the Concertino from scratch, you might consider instead using something else that you already have under your fingers. Unfortunately, there isn't too much economizing you can do in learning the Weber (if you don't already know it). Each section is unique from a technical point of view, although a lot of it is based on a relatively few scales and arpeggios which, hopefully, you already have learned well.

Karl

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