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Tuesday, 16 December 2008

  • Audition Requirements

    (Curtis)

    Applicants will read an orchestral excerpt and demonstrate
    familiarity with all major and minor scales and arpeggios. In
    addition applicants will play: (1) one movement of a concerto
    or sonata; (2) one étude by Kopprasch and one by Gallay;
    and (3) the last movement of Brahms’s Symphony No. 1,
    Mendelssohn’s “Nocturne” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
    the second movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5,
    R. Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel, Ravel’s Pavane, the short call
    from Wagner’s Siegfried’s Rheinfahrt, the first movement
    of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, and the third movement
    of Brahms’s Symphony No. 3.

    (Juilliard)

    UNDERGRADUATE:
    Bachelor of Music and Diploma Audition Repertoire
    1. Two études showing the applicant’s level of technical and musical
    advancement.
    2. At least one major solo of the applicant’s choice.
    3. A representative number of standard orchestral excerpts.

    Richard Strauss  Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 11 - Mvt. 1
    C. Kopprasch  Sixty Selected Studies for French Horn, Book 2, No. 45
    Jacques Francois Gallay  335 Selected Studies for French Horn, No. 17
    Johannes Brahms  Symphony No. 3, op. 90 - Mvt. 3 Solo
    Richard Strauss  Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks - Opening Solo
    Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, op. 47 - Mvt. 1 Low Horn Tutti

    (CIM)

    Undergraduate
    • Major and minor scales and arpeggios.
    • Etude by Kopprasch or the equivalent.
    • Solo or concerto selected by the student.
    • Selected contrasting orchestral excerpts.

Saturday, 15 November 2008

  • UC Scholarship Opportunities

    These are the best:

    Jewish orphan studying aeronautical engineering

    Student who is a U.S. citizen of Mexican descent, bears a Spanish surname, and has average ability to speak and understand the Spanish language

    Member of Children of the Confederacy or dependent of member of the California Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy

    Fine arts or liberal arts major, including librarianship, who neither smokes nor drinks alcoholic beverages

    Mature person returning to college after absence of at least five years

    Upper Division student who is resident of San Diego or Imperial County and is studying communications or visual arts with a media emphasis

    Played on basketball team at Butte or Yuba Community Colleges

    Small-farm farmer or small-town mechanic

    They're so specific!

Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Sunday, 19 October 2008

  • Auditions!

    Yay I'm in the process of scheduling all my auditions for college.  Eek.  This is my conservatory list, in order:

    1 Juilliard
    2 Manhattan School of Music
    3 Colburn
    4 Cleveland Institute
    5 New England Conservatory
    6 Eastman
    7 Curtis
    8 SF Conservatory


    I picked these sort of by city. . .like, I'm not too crazy about Cleveland, OH, Rochester, NY, or San Francisco, since it's so close.  Juilliard would be AMAZING!  That's my second choice after Northwestern.  I'm pretty sure I'm applying regular decision there cause the horn professor hasn't emailed me back.  Of the schools, there's Northwestern, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, University of Michigan, and University of Indiana.  That's a hell of a lot of auditions!  I guess I'll send in tapes to the ones I don't realllly want to go to.  Curtis is at the bottom of my list because I'm not even sure if there are openings.  However, if I got in there, it'd be nice to have the choice.  I mean, if like Eastman and Curtis were exactly the same (which they aren't) besides location, I'd totally pick Curtis!

    This audition process is going to cost thousands of dollars (application + audition fees), not to mention airfare and hotels for multiple trips.  You know what that means--I'll have to practice a lot to make it worth it and give myself the best chance of getting in.  I actually don't know where I can get in.  I figure I should aim high =)  I'm going to be missing so much school!  It's going to start in January and continue through March. . .UGGGH this is why I wanted to apply early and be done by December!  I'd get to skip all this audition junk!!  Then I'd only have to learn my 1 solo movement and 3 excerpts instead of 2 entire solos and a gazillion excerpts.  omg Carnegie Mellon wants like 10 different excerpts those slkdfjsklffj. . . come ON!  It bugs me that they ask you to prepare everything really well, and then, out of those 10, they might pick 5 or 6.  Being OVER-prepared is hard for me to wrap my brain around, but I guess I'll have to do it.

    haha I decided to apply to NEC on a whim, like just this morning.  I think I'd considered it a couple months ago, but then it just dropped off my list.  Now it's back on again, and *GASP* it's #5!  That's cause I'd rather live in Boston than Rochester. . .

    Music theory is hard.  We're starting 4-voice part writing, which is sooooo boring. . .I guess it comes in handy?  I think all the triad stuff has helped me listen for chords in orchestra, but. . .merrr.  I like the class better than like, French.  None of my classes are math or science!  I love it, none of this evil "Do problems."

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

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