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Author: Madelinnneeee
Date: 2014-08-25 01:18
People often have asked me why clarinets always have some of the hardest audition pieces. I've thought about it and I don't really think I have any idea why. I'm kind of curious now too. Does anyone know why clarinets always have the advanced stuff?
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Author: as9934
Date: 2014-08-25 01:45
I dont really know this either. Maybe the people where like "the clarinet has a ton of button lets make them use ALL OF THEM." At the high school level all the auditions I have played have been meaningless technical exercises designed to make my fingers tie themselves in knots.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2014-08-25 01:57
Have you ever looked (for example) at the some of the most common flute orchestral audition pieces?
Prokofiev -Peter and the Wolf
Beethoven - Leonore Overture #3
Debussy - Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun
Ravel - Daphnis and Chloe
Bach - Orchestral Suite #2 in b minor
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
Also, it's not unusual to ask for the Ibert flute concerto.
Just those alone are much more difficult than the standard clarinet list.
...GBK
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Author: kdk
Date: 2014-08-25 03:02
GBK wrote:
> Just those alone are much more difficult than the standard
> clarinet list.
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> ...GBK
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More difficult for flutists?
Karl
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2014-08-25 04:27
Every audition for a position in an orchestra, on any instrument, includes some of the most difficult excerpts for that instrument both from a musical as well as a technical point of view to separate the best players from the average players. When filling a position they want to hire the best player available, just like sports teams and businesses do. Looking for the best in all aspects that the position demands. It's not just the clarinet by any means. It may seem that way to the less advanced player because we have so many difficult passages to play, but so does every other instrumet as well. I remember, as a student, thinking some passages from Daphines and Cloe for bass clarinet and A clarinet where damn near impossible. After a while they became second nature to me to play. Perhaps not easy but not a problem.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2014-08-25 04:44
kdk wrote:
> More difficult for flutists?
I think that, as a whole, the standard flute audition pieces are more technically and lyrically demanding than the clarinet ones.
I know more than one pro flutist who has lost many sleepless nights over just the opening solo in Peter and the Wolf.
...GBK
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Author: William
Date: 2014-08-25 21:03
I've often wondered why a clarinetist auditioning for the second clarinet orchestral chair is asked to play only principal clarinet passages......???
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Author: kdk
Date: 2014-08-25 23:30
To make sure he can't show up the principal clarinetist?
Karl
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2014-08-26 06:15
Not true. They usually give first clarint parts at the first round because those are the solo parts to hear the musicality of the player. Once a player makes the finals they will likely get the second part to Daphnis and Chole and perhaps a few other pieces that have exposed and difficult seconds parts. Then they will always have to play the second parts along with the first clarinetist to hear how they blend and tune etc.
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