Author: seabreeze
Date: 2014-05-20 05:07
Can the mouthpiece play those soft entrances that begin the solos in the Pines of Rome? (Listen to Ralph McLane's recording with the Philadelphia Orchestra).
How does it sound on the cat solo from Peter and the Wolf? Is it absolutely secure on those low notes?
Will it take you through the entire study 16 of Victor Polatschek Advanced Studies, played in strict meter, without squeaks and easily voice all the slurred high notes?
And, yes, does your tongue feel free, light, and agile playing the staccato in the Scherzo from Mid Summer Nights Dream? Ditto for Stravinsky's Story of a Soldier staccato sections where you echo the trumpet figures. (Listen to Harold Wright's recording with the Boston Symphony Chamber players),
The first movement of the Hindemith Concerto is good for testing intonation.
Never, never, never just noodle or play free-floating cadenzas, and please don't see how loud you can play an open G holding the reed on the mouthpiece with your thumb.
Post Edited (2014-05-20 06:41)
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