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Re: Worst audition excerpts

Author: grifffinity
Date: 2010-10-29 01:48

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Why? (I'm curious because I love the ballet, but I've never auditioned with any of the clarinet parts from Firebird nor even put serious practice time into that music.)

The work as a whole is fabulous. The Variations as an excerpt I find problematic on a couple levels. First, the notoriously sloppy editing of the multiple editions of Firebird are just head spinning - although the 1919 edition is most often requested. Then you have the issue with the flute part that was mistakenly written into the clarinet part, with all its inaccurate rhythm and accidental issues....and then you have to choose which version of that measure to play. In the words of Peter Hadcock, " You shouldn't have to play it at all, but if twenty other clarinetists have played it just before it's your turn to audition, you'd better be able to do it too."

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