Mahler 3 (1st section)

• this excerpt is played off stage and not necessary to play too soft-mp is normal
• long notes in opening bars
• long 16ths/honest 8ths at fanfare
• stay in time for 16ths in bar 7
• rit during evenly spaced (8th) notes (not changing-or mixed values-this sounds like you have bad time)
• not too legato
• lead to the downbeat by blowing slightly more into apoggatura notes
• stretch time in bar 13
• echo bar 14 and 15 (make 14 stronger from before the downbeat-bar 15 is normal/established volume-not too soft)
• stretch time in bar 16
• in time bar 17 (before downbeat)
• cresc in 17-19
• take time after held note in bar 20
• target is downbeat of bar 22
• move ahead in bar 23
• no decrescendo until downbeat of bar 25
• rit at end of bar 25
• slower tempo (set up in bar 25) in bar 26 cresc in bar 27
• cresc in bar 28
• stretch end of bar 27 and 28 in exactly the same fashion
• no decresc until bar 32

2nd section

• this segment is only used in 2nd round auditions (but should be prepared before the 1st round)
• trill from top down
• divorce yourself from passage of time during trill (practice this with a metronome)
• accelerate/crescendo through trill (it should not sound too mechanical or measured)
• stop trilling before moving out of it
• long notes bar 15-18
• crescendo to last note the subito mp on last note
• slower tempo=longer notes