<p>i see, yea i feel sometimes feel that way too due to inadequetr practice time prior to rehearsals...lol</p>
<p>jono i got a rostropovich cd, one in which he plays... um... the telemann cello concerto and something else</p>
<p>shostakovich, do I know the feeling...
I feel bad for the winds in those orchestras though, because you can always tell when they've read through or not. We strings have it too easy!</p>
<p>Hm. I'm never even seen that CD! What else is on it?</p>
<p>maybe because i misspoke! it's the paired recording with oistrakh of the shostakovich... <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009XN8G/qid=1111891708/sr=8-6/ref=pd_csp_6/104-0932313-3768713?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846%5B/url%5D">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009XN8G/qid=1111891708/sr=8-6/ref=pd_csp_6/104-0932313-3768713?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846</a></p>
<p>why i said telemann i do not know... actually i do, i had a chamber group performance in which we played a couple telemann quartet pieces :) lol</p>
<p>i was under the impression oistrakh didn't like rostropovich what with the conducting incident... when he conducted for one of his first couple of times i believe oistrakh stood on stage and began to play in the middle of a mozart concerto because he thought he was taking it too slowly?</p>
<p>seriously? wow, the guy's got nerves, or maybe he has a fiery temperment?</p>
<p>but this is oistrakh... and jono do u know if there's a time limit on music samples we send in?</p>
<p>15 minutes. You mean for columbia for admissions, right? 15 minutes, two contrasting works. See the frequently asked questions at the columbia college admissions site.</p>
<p>eek... sorry, and yes i did mean admissions...</p>
<p>meditation from thai, by massenet is utterly heart wrenching. I love that piece. In addition, I agree that Daphnes and Chloe is very beautiful; the third part is particularily so. :D</p>
<p>Are there many percussionists at Columbia? :D</p>
<p>Yeah videogamerx2, I'm a percussionist (CC '09). I play a lot of drumset, marimba, and timpani. I currently study at the Manhattan School of Music (right up the street), but I'll probably take lessons from the Columbia/Julliard faculty when I'm there. Are you a percussionist?</p>
<p>Yeah, mostly drumset (funk, jazz, latin, rock, metal, prog [my fav]) and snare drum (classical, traditional concert band stuff, etc). I'm in jazz band, wind ensemble, concert band, a sax ensemble, and three bands outside of my high school.</p>
<p>CC '09 as well :O</p>
<p>Do you know what opportunities are available for oboists at Columbia? I am good, but not Julliard material. I have played first chair in my high school symphonic orchestra & Wind Ensemble, also in community orchestra and chamber orchestra, and regional youth orchestras. I really want to continue music performance in college (not as a major). I also want to continue private music lessons. Any advice as to how to access these programs at Columbia? How proficient do you need to be?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>At Days on Campus I saw an Extracurricular Wind Ensemble, so you could definately join that.
If you want private lessons or want to join or form Chamber Orchestra for free at Columbia, I think you have to audition for them the first week.</p>
<p>The Columbia private instruction faculty biographies by instrument are located here: <a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mpp/biographies.html%5B/url%5D">http://music.columbia.edu/mpp/biographies.html</a></p>
<p>You could take lessons at Columbia from anyone on this list for free.</p>
<p>Columbia also will pay part of the cost of private lessons if you choose to take lessons from someone not on this list.</p>
<p>There are chamber groups as well, by audition. They perform in some of the best concert spaces in the city when they have pieces ready. You don't have to pay for this, either.</p>
<p>So this is a little unlike programs at other schools. UChicago, for example, has no performance faculty like Columbia does. However, they will pay for lessons with a teacher that you find, who agrees to teach you, in the Chicago area. So at Columbia, if you're good, you'll get lessons for free if you study with one of their teachers, or you'll get lessons at a slightly lower cost with a different teacher in the NYC area. At Chicago, you may or may not get lessons, but if you find a teacher in the Chicago area, the university will pay for all of it. Columbia, obviously, wants you to take lessons at Columbia. Juilliard will accept like 2-4 (total) Columbia students per year to take lessons there and get a double-degree. These lessons you won't have to pay for, but these lessons are extremely difficult to get. The 4-year single-Columbia-degree-with-lessons-at-Juilliard program disappeared this year. Though the 5-year program is rarely seen in living examples, rumor tells me it still exists.</p>
<p>This is how you know that you spend too much time on CC: I don't understand whether one gets into Columbia and then auditions for Juilliard or vice versa, so I decide to look at the Columbia thread. And then I find - to my delight - that someone's started a thread specifically about music operformance at Columbia. And then I see that it's grown to 9 pages - wow! there must be a lot of interest in music at Columbia! And then I see that - holy cow - I started the darned thread two months ago! I have absolutely no memory of starting it, but I'm glad you all have gotten to know one another. I admire your passion for your music!</p>
<p>lol. I agree, there seems to plenty of genuine interest in music at Columbia.</p>
<p>So, where is your daughter going, or is she still a junior?</p>
<p>Okay, so here's the deal, I'm playing in preludio tomorrow, vocalise on thursday, and bruch concerto #1 in the muscic festival tomorrow. I desperately want to make it to the nationals and I know I can, but I have this problem with performance anxiety. When I have to play in front of a crowd, my arms shake, and I can barely play a quarter note without stalling. It's not stage fright, it's just mild fear of memory flops, and a burning desire to make it into the nationals. Please, any suggestions, or help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>To prevent yourself from stalling, concentrate on your right hand and make sure it moves on the bow, and keep the bow moving. Concentrate on your left hand fingertips. Make as many round motions as you can, because shaking is really side-to-side and vertical, which is bad. The bow shakes less if you stay nearer to the tip when it's legato, I find. Always think, "Slow, slow." Thinking slow is so important to prevent things from getting out of control. I did a low-stress competition today playing pieces that I started last week (hell yes, and from memory, too), and the first big climactic run I wasn't thinking slow, so it wasn't in-tune, but the second time I thought slow and it was perfect. Think slow, because that works.</p>