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Why don't the best players always win auditions? It's all about risk and reward. When you know your limitations (because everybody has them) and how to work within them, you're well on your way to formulating a winning audition plan.
In this video, I introduce two images: "The Box" and "Ceiling/Floor" that have helped me understand how to frame each excerpt.
0:00 Introduction and Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
1:58 Auditions are like speed dating
3:13 The reason for each excerpt
4:13 Risk and reward vs. "playing it safe"
5:27 Introducing "The Box"
6:33 What's in, what's out?
8:09 Sound quality and Don Juan
9:40 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2
11:00 Tempo and Mozart Symphony No. 39
12:27 Schumann Scherzo
13:27 Dynamics and Mendelssohn Midsummer Night's Dream
15:41 Expressive choices and summing up
16:57 Introducing "Ceiling and Floor"
18:48 Long-term, raise the floor
20:25 Schumann Scherzo, tempo ceiling
21:37 Beethoven 3 Scherzo, dynamic ceiling
23:01 Brahms 4 slow mvt, fingering choice
25:53 Conclusion
22 июл 2024