At 5:55 PM -0700 7/19/05, Ken Durling wrote:
I personally would always prefer having score in ensemble pieces,
and prefer memorization for soloists and conductors. This is also
the way many competitions are run - requiring memorization for
soloists but not for ensembles. It only makes sense, IMHO.
ken
I always memorized all my solo music for performances and
competitions. It was just what people did. In the last several
years at this school, the instrumental faculty seem to have stopped
requiring memorization for juries and recitals. The vocal faculty
still expect it and insist on it. Go figure.
As a conductor, however, the kind of in-depth score study taught by
Julius Herford at Indiana has, as a side effect, the memorization of
the score in detail. (He is the man who taught score study to Robert
Shaw, and Shaw freely admitted his debt to Herford.)
John
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