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Re: The difference between a full-time soloist and an orchestral clarinetist

Author: rmk54
Date: 2020-11-20 20:16

To address your question (sort of), I doubt if there are universal differences. There is, I'm sure, a difference in the level of interpretive and expressive freedom that comes as a soloist from being the principal decision-maker in any given performance situation.

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I've been on audition committees where a candidate was dismissed for being "too soloistic", even for a principal position.

In other words the player was deemed too individualistic to ever blend within a section. I remember one such player (an oboist) who refused to slow down a passage even though requested by the music director.

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