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Author: DerkaDerb
Date: 2012-03-27 05:14
What is your best advice on taking an audition and playing orchestral excerpts? In my opinion, orchestral excerpts can be quite boring and mechanical to play. What is your advice to playing orchestral excerpts at a high level and your methods of making it "artistic." Thoughts?
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Author: Bob Bernardo
Date: 2012-03-27 07:43
Are you trying out for college? The reason is often the excerpts are not enough and they hand out a full verson asking you to play other parts besides the excerpts. If they give you a list of the pieces try to get the full versions. Also try to get recordings of the music they are requiring. Most of the time colleges ask for sight reading, so practice that a lot. Try to look ahead about 2 measures and you should do OK.
Hope this helps.
Designer of - Vintage 1940 Cicero Mouthpieces and the La Vecchia mouthpieces
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Post Edited (2012-03-27 18:57)
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2012-03-27 09:45
Make every moment you play, your best.
The repetition is there to enforce muscle memory, but it is up to YOU to make MUSIC.
Think about this, if you get the job the last thing you want to do is be in a position were you are saying to yourself, 'Oh no, not Dvorak's New World again!' Or at least you don't want to sound like you're saying that to yourself.
..............Paul Aviles
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Author: grenadilla428
Date: 2012-03-27 15:30
This is going to sound simplistic, but play them the way you would play them in full ensemble. Sing along and hear the rest of the orchestra in your head. Technical, maybe, but boring?? The frantic excitement of Shosty 1, the gracefulness of Brahms 3, the flightiness of Firebird, the brooding of Beethoven 4. I find them more fun to play in ensemble, but still enjoyable (some more so than others) alone.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2012-03-27 15:55
Rhythm. Yes you have to play them technically correctly to succeed in an audition situation. If the rhythm isn't there, the success isn't there no matter how "musically" you play it.
IMO playing an excerpt for an audition _is_ a technical exercise. If your goal is to get a job, you must play them in the "usual" manner. Yes, there are moments for artistic expression but if it doesn't jive with how the audition committee is expecting to hear it, you won't get the job.
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Author: Lam
Date: 2012-03-27 15:58
IMHO, a high level playing of orchestral excepts makes the one who hear could also hear the orchestral background in their head (imagination). When I hear the Larry combs orchestral excepts CD, I could hear the whole orchestral background, although actually its only he's playing.
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Author: grenadilla428
Date: 2012-03-27 16:22
Ha - typed Beethoven 4 but was hearing Brahms 4 in my head. Sorry.
But I'll hold to the rest. :-)
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