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Author: Heather Kraus
Date: 2001-08-30 20:33
My district audition piece last year was Mozart's clarinet Concerto in C Major. I can pretty much sight read it up to tempo now, no sweat. This year's district piece is Concertino. I'm still working on it because it's a little more challenging than the Mozart. I can't quite play the quicker parts, especially the ending up to tempo yet. So, I need two pieces with contrasting style for my college audition later this fall. Would Concertino be the better choice for my more difficult piece? I know these aren't very difficult for players on some of your levels, but it's about the best I can do comfortably, and I'm a future music ed. major, so I'm hoping they won't be as selective with the ed majors as they are with the performance majors. I'm going to a liberal arts school by the way, not a conservatory.
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Author: Jerry McD.
Date: 2001-08-30 21:46
Heather,
I think you would do well to play the 2nd movement of the Mozart (in A major ;^)) and the last section of the Weber. This will give you two different styles, and two things to work on. The Mozart is arguably the most beautiful AND difficult piece written for clarinet. Good luck!
Jerry McD.
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Author: Kim L
Date: 2001-08-31 03:59
Heather,
College music professors are concerned more with how the music is played than the difficulty of the music. If you go into your audition playing poorly, it says very little about how good you really are. Even pro's can make the easiest piece sound difficult!
I agree with Jerry because with the 2nd movement of Mozart you have a slow and lyrical piece and the last movement of the Concertino you can show off your technical facility.
Good luck,
Kim L.
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2001-09-01 02:25
I would disagree that the Concertino is harder than the Mozart...I learned it a year and a half before the Mozart (but that's just my view). Pick the one you think you can do a better job with. Bear in mind that probably more than half the clarinetists at your audition will have the Mozart and out of the rest a good number will have the Concertino.
Where are you auditioning? I'm a junior and I'm doing the tour thing right now.
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Author: Carmen Izzo
Date: 2001-09-02 04:30
AS you progress as a musician, you will see that there are deeper meanings and things in pieces not just speed of notes. The fact that you would be performing the Mozart, would require so many picky stylistic demands that simple mistakes can ruin the piece. So I say, learn the Concertino, play the Allegro in 6/8 at about 60 on your metronome. then when its perfect. raise it to 66. then perfect it. then to 72, 80,88, 96, then 100. Thats how you should practice it. The concertino can hide little mistakes and can be played in so many ways. Its the perfect piece for a student getting ready. The Mozart on the other handit worse. I thought i knew it all. As im re-learning it two years later i see that theres more to it than i thought. So stick to the concertino, and if anything try out Mozarts Second Mvt
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-09-02 04:48
Carmen, as you're a junior in high school:
every two years you'll be re-learning your repertoire -
for the rest of your life.
If it's good music you'll be finding more depth in it as you progress.
Wait 'till you get a really good string quartet and start really understanding the Brahms quintet. IMNSHO one of the finest and deepest pieces of music ever written - bar none.
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Author: Patrick
Date: 2001-09-02 04:49
I tried out for my colleges with the Concertino. I do believe it has everything you and the judging committee are looking for. It has many contrasting parts in which you can really show your musical and technical qualities. There are so many possibilities to perform this piece. The Mozart is okay, but it may seem like an "easy" piece, but in order to play it well, it requires A LOT of work. And you want to impress the school, not give them a reason to critique you. Well, good luck!!!!
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Author: Bob Curtis
Date: 2001-09-02 22:12
Why do we all ways have to play something so serious for a try out material? Is it prescribed by the judges or is it something we are doing to try to impress them with our technical abilities? Playing something musically is more important than how fast you can move your fingers. If it were me, and I had a choice in the matter, I would play something lighter to show that I do have a sense of humor and can play other things MUSICALLY!! Debussy wrote an interesting piece entitled "le Petit Negre" that is both pleasing and fun to play, and not techinically hard, but it is challenging to play musically. Check it out. You might be surprised how it would be accepted if you asked around.
Bob Curtis
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Author: Bob Curtis
Date: 2001-09-02 22:18
An addendum -- I have played both the complete Mozart Concerto on A clarinet in recital and the Weber Concertino. I have rehearsed the Brahms but found that I didn't particularly care for it... just my choice.
Bob Curtis
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