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Author: Keil
Date: 2002-01-13 01:53
I have a very important audition coming up and i don't want anything i do to cause me to look unprofessional. I play using a double embochure as i have stated before and because of this i don't play standing up. Do you think that this will look bad at a professional audition? I know Harold Wright only played sitting down.
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Author: Kim L.
Date: 2002-01-13 02:30
At my juries, band auditions, and performances I play standing. For juries and auditions, the music professors at my school have us stand. However, I guess it's personal preference.
Good luck,
Kim L.
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Author: Shawn
Date: 2002-01-13 04:22
Typically, if you're playing a concerto you stand. Anything else would be your preference.
Hope this helps.
Shawn
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-01-13 04:42
After you become rich and famous you may do as you please. In the meantime, if you are able, it would be better form to stand.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-01-13 04:55
Keil,
If yoo play double lip and you can't stand up while playing - then you can't stand up while playing! There's no question to ask ;^)
Will it reflect poorly on you? Well, it may not be what's expected, but since this is an audition you'll just explain that you play double lip if anything at all is said. That itself may engender more questions since it isn't a common embouchure ...
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Author: Kim
Date: 2002-01-13 07:01
If it's an audition for an orchestra, just about everyone I've ever known usually sits (at least while playing the excerpts). It makes sense, if you're auditioning for an ensemble where you'll be sitting during the job, to sit during the audition.
I have to say, though, while sitting on a flute audition committee recently, one person stood while playing everything, and standing definitely gives a better immediate first impression (looks more commanding that sitting).
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Author: Jill
Date: 2002-01-13 13:31
If you're performing a prepared piece, I think it is more appropriate to stand. If you're sight-reading, or you're in an interview, sitting is OK.
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Author: John O\\\\\\'Janpa
Date: 2002-01-13 14:05
Not standing would not create as bad an impression as not playing well because you are standing.
Some of us (including me) can't stand.
I guarantee that if you are a superior player, they will accomodate your inability to stand.
I believe there is a world class violinist who walks with crutches and sits, even when playing solos.
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Author: Nick Conner
Date: 2002-01-13 15:33
I actually just had my audition for Indiana University's music school yesterday, and it went very well. At the beginning of the audition, professor Klug told me that it was ok to either sit or stand. I think most judges want to hear the best playing they can from those being judged, and by accomodating sitting and standing, they can help that.
Nick Conner
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Author: Al
Date: 2002-01-13 17:13
Unless one is featured as a soloist, how many times will he perform standing? EVERYONE performs sitting-and I'm not talking about marching bands. Think about it.
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Author: donald nicholls
Date: 2002-01-13 19:34
i personally think standing does look better for Sonata and Concerto repertoire, but nothing impresses like GOOD PLAYING. I've read reviews of performances where players sat, and played so well that the audience was enthralled. Also, i saw Richard Hawkins do a great recital and he stood for the Brahms sonata, but then sat for a chamber piece, and sat for the Denisov sonata (an unacompanied work).
whatever you do, PLEASE, don't take a plastic water bottle on to stage! i have seen more than one player do this (sorry, but only in the USA) and it looks really really really bad. On the other hand- a glass of water hidden behind the piano, or off to one side somewhere, is fine (for me as both a player and as audience). But even if your medication (or something like that) makes you really really thirsty, please spare us the plastic water bottle!
nzdonald
(re water bottle- i mean for a classical performance)
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Author: Kim L.
Date: 2002-01-13 21:39
IMHO, musicians, even my professors bring a plastic water bottle on stage. So...what's the deal. It's not as bad as a cell phone or beeper going off in the middle of a performance. ;-)
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Author: MsRoboto
Date: 2002-01-14 00:32
I understand the water bottle looking uglier than a glass of water. The water bottle is infinitely safer. You can put the cover on it and if it falls over no biggy. Try that with a glass of water.
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Author: Keil
Date: 2002-01-14 05:56
thank you to everyone who responded, i think i'm just gonna play sitting down. As far as plastic water bottles or small glasses of water, i was in a concert where the principal cellist brought cup of starbuck's coffee on stage... now thats way tackier...
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Author: donald nicholls
Date: 2002-01-14 09:25
come on guys, the plastic water bottle makes you look like a racing cyclist! think class, think sophistication! set the standards for yourself that the top players perform to- i have NEVER seen any quality musician in the formal performance situation take either a plastic water bottle or a starbucks coffee on stage- in professional orchestras you would get the hard word from management! Larry Combs Charles Neidich Jozeph Balogh Alessandro Carbonare Sabine Meyer David Shifrin Ken Grant Anthony Gigliotti Steve Girko Alan Hacker Michael Collins Elsa Ludwig Verdehr John Manasse John Bruce Yeh Ricardo Morales Burt Hara ummmm just to name a few people i have seen perform without a plastic water bottle on stage!
and frankly, i want to be like them! (fat chance!!!!!!)
nzdonald
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Author: Joseph O'Kelly
Date: 2002-01-15 02:47
Why can't you stand with a double lipped emboucher?
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Author: donald nicholls
Date: 2002-01-16 03:54
you can if you really want to
- i've seen Stolztman do it more than once,
for me, it really doesn't make much difference unless i put the clarinet on my knee, and this is another topic altogether isn't it? i think it has been discussed already somewhere on this notice board.
donald
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