House of Violists

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A fall break road trip wound up with 5 violists and a Dutch violinist at my house. The violists had their violas and the violinist had... a video camera. Some of these violists were auditioning for New York Strings, some were injured, some just needed to keep up with thier game, and some were switching to the mandolin and didn't need to practice. This reality TV style video says it all in interviews to get in on the competetive (or not?) atmosphere in the house.

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• Reality
• TV
• violists
• mandolin
• New
• York
• Strings
• Oberlin
• CIM
• sharp
• minor
• scales
• mozart
• divertimento

[sheepbird]

im wondering about college because i was wondering is the handel/casadesus concerto may be concidered too easy a concerto for conservatory audition repertoire im playing bach 3rd prelude also and probably the shubert arpeggione but i was what you thought since you probably made it into oberlin no problem

[forgotten4eva]

I think the handel/casadesus would be fine for Oberlin. They just want to hear you at your best. The Bach and Schubert are good. good luck!

[sheepbird]

thts awesome what did you play to get into oberlin? was it around the same difficulty?

[forgotten4eva]

I played the prelude to Bach's 3rd Suite, The first movement of Brahms F minor, and the first movement of Walton. Heifetz has a broader age range, so the difficulty of getting in is hard to compare.

[sheepbird]

what about to oberlin? is it a nice school? the site for oberlin isnt very interesting lol

[forgotten4eva]

Of course, Oberlin is an amazing school for both a conservatory and a college education.

[simplyme782]

Hi,do you think by any chance you can post some vids of students playing i'd really love to hear more of what oberlin students sound like

[forgotten4eva]

I played Shostakovich sonata and the prelude to bach's 6th suite on the audition tape to heifetz- I don't know what the others played. I go to Oberlin, Sergien, Annalisa, and Katie go to CIM, and Matt goes to NEC. If you want to go to Heifetz you can still apply. They like really flashy stuff.

[sheepbird]

im a violist and im wondering what pieces did you play to get in there? and what school are you going to now? i know you guys r just joking around in your videos but i can tell you guys are pretty good =)

[forgotten4eva]

Hi Sheepbird, We met at the Heifetz Institute in the summer of 2007