It's Orchestra Audition season for me this month! I am so excited that there are 2 principal harp auditions open for this season! But this does mean lots of slow, boring practice. As much as I love playing in orchestras, I actually despise practicing orchestral excerpts for auditions. It's just so nerve racking because you never know what the panel wants..... ie. Bartok: To roll or not to roll? That is the question! How much rubato to do on the Nutcracker Cadenza? (Don't get me wrong I know how I like to play it and have thought through it alot, but I have heard SO many different interpretations and each one is 'right'?) and there are only so many times you can play the Berlioz before you start to want your own dose of Opium.
OK enough ranting.
What do you do to prepare for Auditions?
Here's my Complete audition list for this year:
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Britten: Young Person's Guide
Mahler: #5 Adagietto
Ravel: Tzigane
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capricio Espagnol
Strauss: Don Juan
Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers Cadenza
Verdi: La Forza del Destino
Wagner: Magic Fire Music
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