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 Re: Mozart Concerto and Grade 6 Highschool Students
Author: allencole 
Date:   2006-02-20 17:22

Mozart, Weber, etc. are staples for teenaged students, and there's no reason not to play them. But I do worry about GBK's comments about sending kids to contests who aren't ready.

We have that problem with district band auditions here. 12 major scales and 3 octaves of chromatic is a reasonable standard, and many auditionees cannot complete them--let alone competitively. Even so, we get busloads of unqualified auditionees every year increasing judge workloads and making them miserable. Many have suggested that they not be allowed to audition unless they can actually execute this requirement.

Students certainly need to be pushed to expand themselves technically, and to expose themselves to an audience. But both student and teacher must always remember that pleasing the listener is job #1. If Mozart is going to be a hatchet job, perhaps a substitution is in order.

Allen Cole
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