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Re: Excerpts

Author: lmliberson
Date: 2022-12-27 16:00

Yes…realistically.

If your clarinet playing does not meet the acceptable standards of whatever “professional” orchestra for which you are auditioning, you likely will not even reach that part of the audition where you play Eb or bass. In a typical four-person orchestral clarinet section, the expectations are that each member of the section will be playing clarinet at some time. Many parts in the orchestral repertoire, btw, will be doubling parts where you will play both clarinet and Eb (or bass).

Your clarinet playing has to be more than…ahem…adequate.

Also, while getting your “foot in the door while you work your way up” certainly has occurred, it’s not exactly happening in every orchestra - in fact, it’s mostly a rare happening. Not everybody wants or needs to be a principal.

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