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Placement auditions

Author: marshall
Date: 2007-08-02 17:36

If this has been covered before, feel free to remove this topic and re-direct me.

I have placement auditions for the Junior Symphony in a little under a month and I have a question regarding one of the excerpts. All five of the clarinet's excerpts are from Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherezade'.

In the third movement at the clarinets first entrance, should the groups of 26 and 32 be played mathematically correct, or in a free and almost ad-libed 'play-from-this-note-to-this-note-in-this-amount-of-time-using-these-notes-inbetween' sort of way? I've only listened to two recordings of it but they were both played fairly freely.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Placement auditions

Author: EEBaum
Date: 2007-08-02 18:21

I've heard it both ways, and greatly prefer it freely.

If you just linger on the first note a bit, you can sort of pull the rest of them out, with a further slight linger at the top.

-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com

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Re: Placement auditions

Author: D
Date: 2007-08-03 05:16

Whatever you do make it sound deliberate and in control.

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Re: Placement auditions

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2007-08-03 10:00

There are some fairly "standard" interpretations out there. I believe the
Bonade excerpt book has a written out suggested method for playing these groups. Also, listen to an old Cleveland recording with Marcellus for a good start.

...........Paul Aviles

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