<p>Did anybody send recordings of multiple intruments? </p>
<p>I play both piano an clarinet, so should I send both? Or should I just send the one I think is best (piano)?</p>
<p>this is not an answer but my own question to add to this forum.</p>
<p>i wrote a musical and i want to show it off, but how should i do it? should i just play an arrangement of one song or put together a medley or get a quartet or a small chamber orchestra to play a few songs?</p>
<p>Just to note, I am a serious violin player but not at the national level. I called my regional admissions guy and he told me that musical supplements are only really meaningful for increible candidates. I asked what he meant and he implied that pre-julliard and pre-curtis musicians are good candidates for submitting...he emphasized that music can be important to candidate but the submission of extra material should be limited to those who are at the top of their instruments (for example NFAA or presidential scholar nominees...)</p>
<p>so did you send samples? I really don't think it's necessarily to have a well-known name in order to be a good player......</p>
<p>salfiamilke, yea i agree. i'm a serious violin player myself (multiple years of All-State, various awards...etc.) but I'm not at the national level yet. I know a lot of people who are just as good as I and even better who don't send recordings as well. i think to send a recording you should at least be in a national orchestra or have be really really really good at an instrument, because if you're just all state, they are thousands of those...</p>
<p>i think you should send a recording if you're a serious violinist/musician. the worst they can do is not listen to it. if music is truly a passion of your's, and it plays a big part of your application, then go for it.</p>
<p>i just happen to be lucky. i don't consider myself the best violinist in the world, but i am the co-concertmaster of an orchestra at the "youth performing arts school" and we've performed on NPR, at the national youth orchestra festival, at the Midwest clinic, and we'll be playing at Carnegie come june...but honestly, who cares? if you think music is a big part of who you are, show that to the adcom by sending a CD.</p>
<p>and on the original topic...i think it'd be fine to send recordings of two different intruments, providing that they're equally important to you. i chose to leave out the piano and limit myself to a violin recording though.</p>
<p>well, I didn't send in samples of two instruments, but I sent in samples of composition and repitoire. I'm sure you could get away with sending both, just don't bog them down too much. I sent two of each, so I'm sure if you just kept the number of pieces at a reasonable number, sending samples of both would be perfectly alright.</p>
<p>I totally agree twink1etwinkle but not a yale...basically, if your music is not up to standard they literally state that "it can hurt"...I'm in a orchestra similar to yours (although not concert-master...haha), anyway, the people I know who sent tapes were at pre-curtis and were in lyric orchestra in chicago...I'll shut up now</p>
<p>Did anyone send a recording of VOCAL music?</p>
<p>wow, it can actually hurt?</p>
<p>haha, so THAT'S why i got deferred by harvard... (no, j/k... i'm sure it was that and a combination of other factors, but i wish i knew that earlier)</p>
<p>hmmmm but then again, there are no "nationally ranked" woodwind players. maybe i should just put down "texas all-state band" and leave it at that.</p>
<p>any more clarinetists applying to yale?</p>
<p>can someone please clarify about sending in tapes if you are not a national player? if you are a state-level woodwind or brass player, should you or should you not send in a tape? and can it actually hurt your application? and would they think it was strange if on the yale supp. i checked off that i would send in a tape but then i don't? thanks.</p>
<p>If you have gotten All-state, send it in. When they say that mediocre submissions can hurt your application, I really think they're talking about who just aren't good at all. Your music can't be that bad if you got all-state, so it wouldn't hurt your application. It's just supplemental!
Many of you are considered this music supp as something not supp but an important factor in admissions. If this were true, it would be like the admissions people asking you not to send in any records of extracurricular activities in which you have not gained a national or state-wide position of leadership! That would be ridiculous. If you were the president of something at school, write it down. If you got all-state, send in a CD.</p>
<p>It really depends on the school...basically send it anywhere except places that discourage it (aka yale, columbia)...all the informations on their websites</p>
<p>so yale discourages it? hmmm...</p>
<p>oh well. i guess i'll send it... that won't make or break my app, right?</p>
<p>haha, oh well, I hope I'm wrong and non, it won't make or break your app at all. Good luck</p>
<p>hmmm...question...today, my rep emailled me and told me that after the music dept evaluated my CD (for early action), they mishandled and cracked it. thus, he was contacting me to ask if i could submit another CD, for another faculty member to evaluate. is this a good thing or a bad thing? i mean, they wouldn't ask to listen to someone they absolutely hated again, right? or is it just standard procedure to have a deferred applicant's supplement re-evaluated? or am i on the edge? lol. i know its not that big of a deal, but i'm still kinda nervous now.</p>
<p>what do y'all think?</p>