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Author: Andy
Date: 2001-08-24 01:55
Hey guys,
So, for the past three years my city has always been near the start of the auditions and as such I have been nice and told everyone what the sight reading is. So if anyone out there has done their audition and is feeling generous and wants to help all their clarinet friends out there please feel free to let us know what the sight reading is.
If you share the knowledge there will be rewards in it for you when everyone on this board finally meets one day!
Thanks in advance,
Andy
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Author: Pam
Date: 2001-08-24 02:06
It wouldn't be sight reading then, if you have practiced the piece beforehand. Maybe that is why it is kept a secret. I personally enjoy sightreading. If you do it often, you do improve!
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Author: Kim
Date: 2001-08-24 03:26
Sightreading is meant to see where you are. If you are already where the director wants the ensemble to be then you haven't learned anything. Would you want the answers to a test?
Best of luck in your audition. 
Kim
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Author: ClarinetBoy
Date: 2001-08-24 07:15
i wouldn't worry about it it's not that hard...
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Author: Andy
Date: 2001-08-24 14:21
OF COURSE I WAS JOKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Calm down.
Good luck to everyone who is doing one or who has done one!
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2001-08-24 17:00
Andy -
Tune up carefully before you go in. If you play out of tune, you'll lose points.
Take the sight-reading passages a little slower than you think you can play them. It's more important to get through without stopping than to play fast. Then, if they ask you to try it faster, you've already played it once.
Count like crazy, especially on the rests. More points are lost by jumping in before a rest is over than for any other reason.
Finally, do exactly what they tell you. If they say to start at the beginning of a line, but all that's there is a whole note and a rest, the worst thing you can do is skip those and start the solo or the fast notes later in this line. That's a deliberate trap, to see if you follow directions.
Good luck.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Robin
Date: 2001-08-25 15:11
Hi there.
I'm afraid I had never seen it before. It wasn't very difficult though. To non-AYO auditioners this would seem an odd question, but I feel I should make it clear that in past years, the sight reading has always been a popular excerpt.
Good luck, Andy, not that you'll need it, and all the best generally. Come home soon!
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Author: Andy
Date: 2001-08-26 01:46
Rob,
I'm home next weekend! I'll give you a ring during the week.
Andy
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