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My Pathway to Clarinet Excellency
http://sandyclarinet.blogspot.com/
This is my blog about my adventures as a struggling, post graduate clarinetist trying to make it big.
- Added on: Sep 16th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Sandy Herrera
- Listed in: Music Industry Classical
- Tags: music auditions excerpts clarinet
Recent Posts
new reeds
For as long as I can remember, I've been a Vandoren reed person. And for the last few years, specifically the V-12 variety. But I have always been open to other things. I've been known to play on Gonzalez reeds from time to time...they are pretty ...
a day of realizations
Maybe this will be the last time I will ever take an audition on Friday the 13th. I am writing this from my hotel room in Charleston, West Virginia after a horrible day. The audition today is making me question whether or not this is all worth it, ...
something that made me smile.
Yesterday, I taught a lesson to this really cute little 10 year old girl. She is very enthusiastic about playing clarinet, but often gets distracted because she is enthusiastic about everything! So most of the time I spend trying to get her re-focu...
ohhhhhhh......Daphnis.
Is is just me or is the Daphnis & Chloe excerpt the hardest excerpt ever? It seems like every time I have to prepare it I think to myself..."did I really play this at tempo before??", because I have, but everytime I have to go back to it I feel ...
need to write more often...
So I haven't been very good about writing in this blog...I meant to write almost every day but obviously that hasn't really happened. I've just been so busy lately....I am now full time at my job, so that means I'm at work from 8-4:30 every day, and...
Youngstown symphony
Last night I auditioned for the Youngstown Symphony in Ohio. It was an interesting experience, mostly because I found out what happens when an orchestra does not plan its audition days very well. Yesterday they not only auditioned for 2nd clarinet,...
