Author: Mark Dubac
Date: 1999-05-19 00:56
Hi. My name is Mark Dubac, and my mother told me I needed to respond to this thread. I was principal clarinet in WYSO last summer for the first six weeks. I believe that the competition during a period of eight weeks made me learn more than I did in an entire year of practicing and participating in music activities in school, all-state, all-eastern, etc. There is a one week period to learn the challenge music. The challenges are almost always fair. Yes it is true that your peers, not the teacher chooses whether you or the person next to you plays a few passages better. In the clarinet section however, the teacher can overide the vote and make the two people play again. This did happen occasionally. The week I moved down, I didn't play as well as the girl next to me. The next week I moved down to third because the third chair played better than me. I don't see what the big fuss is. They were better prepared than I, so they got to play a few more solos than I did for a couple of weeks. And one more thing. The sectional coach will not just go straight to the passages that are the most technically demanding. The first week of this past summer we played Brahms 4. We played all of the slow solos from the 2cd movement and the faster passages from the third movement(for C clarinet). He was trying to prepare us for later on in life. We need to learn to play with sensitivity and musicality as well as be able to play faster passages while tranposing. It is usually rather obvious which passages the coach will choose. This summer WYSO will be playing Francesca Da Rimini. Gee, I wonder which solo I will have to play for challenges.(sarcasm)
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