| Mikey- This was asked at the second round of Richmond. NE, very good points...I would guess that the conductor probably just wanted to seperate the men from the boys, as there were 9 people in the semis. Just seems like with a list like that, you may not get the right person for the 2nd trpt. job. A few years ago, I took an audition for princ. trpt in a small regional orchestra, and was asked to play Schmuyle in both rounds only a few hours apart from each other. ALso asked was: Posthorn, Bartok finale first trpt. etc. Now I suppose this could be logical as it is a 1st trpt. audition, but it has been my experience that the smaller orchestras tend to ask more chop challenging rounds, as maybe they are just trying to weed people out instead of looking for the best musician... Just my 2 cents worth.
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