Author: DrewSorensenMusic
Date: 2011-12-08 17:16
I just finished Urinetown for the local college (I'm not in college), which isn't too diffiecult, some upper register clarinet, but we're talking going up against every reed player in the world if you want to play on broadway (of which I intend). So the phrasing needs to be spot on, articulations flawless, and quick lines clean. There's just no possible way to sight read to that level. I want to get a heads up early, before moving to NYC, because it's so darn expensive, I just don't know how long I could last waiting for my break. I'm guessing the only way to get into the scene is to take a lesson from one of the guys, and hopefully get a copy.
They should really have excerpt books like they do for classical music. I'd feel much more confident.
I got offered a tour, but had to turn it down. It's ok cause I'm starting oboe up right now, and can use the time to get it together. But here in Philadelphia I'm having trouble with the lack of decent paying steady work.
Illegal or not, the Real Book lasted in print 30 years without a hitch.
And one last point, I find it funny that we practice the hardest etudes we can find, sound like virtuosos on 12 different instruments, and then play music that we could have played at age 14. What an ironic career choice.
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