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Author: igalkov
Date: 2020-10-14 12:57
Hello,
I wish to improve my orchestral auditions experience and have found these two books, Peter Hadcock’s The Working Clarinetist and Benjamin Baron / Mark Nuccio’s The Audition Method. The last has a sample of the contents; the Hadcock’s is a dark horse but features a much wider set of excerpts. Which one to choose for preparing for real orchestral audition, not to learn excerpts by it’s own or for yourself? Which is more guided and annotated? If you have any suggestions beyond these two, it will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
Post Edited (2020-10-14 13:00)
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-10-14 19:40
Hadcock's 2 books (one for Bb/A and the other for Eb clarinets) are hardly "dark horse." They are the standard compact reference today for a selection of orchestral excerpts for the clarinet. Hadcock also gives valuable warnings about what is likely to go wrong and useful fingering suggestions. Nuccio's book is good too, and both books have a place in every clarinetist's library. Ben Armato's opera excerpt book is another must have volume.
But you need entire clarinet parts and scores as well. Like this one from the Orchestral Musican's Library https://orchmusiclibrary.com/pdf/replacements/mahler_sym_cl.pdf. Their complete set is good, but you can also find some of the same for free now if you search. Borris Allakhverdyan, now principal cl. in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, studied first in Russia and said that he did mostly scales and technical work. When he came to the US and studied at Oberlin, Richard Hawkins gave him the full orchestral clarinet treatment, which (along with his considerable talent) no doubt helped him get his position with the Met and later with Los Angeles.
More important than studying excerpts or even complete isolated parts is (as Tony Pay has often said) actually playing in an orchestra. Find an orchestra to play with!
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Author: Ed
Date: 2020-10-15 03:29
I can't compare to the Nuccio book, but the Hadcock book is excellent. Kalman Bloch also wrote a few volumes covering that material that has valuable info. It is probably worth owning and studying all of them.
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