Audition

an unspoken fact that players were sizing each other up. The feeling of one-hundred people listening in on my scales made me want to play as quiet as a mouse, barely audible to my ears and definitely inaudible to others. But I fought this urge, telling myself all that mattered was how I sounded to the judges. Warming-up was an essential part of a successful audition. Sufficient blood flow in my fingers was critical for them to move with the effortlessness and celerity of a waterfall. My fingers repeatedly flew up and down my scales, immediately adjusting ever so slightly at the sound of a sharp or flat note Although my scales were hardly perfect I convinced myself they would have to do and moved on to my excerpts. For the four years I had done IMEA, I always regretted not practicing more. IMEA was like a midterm paper I started writing the day previous to when it was do, I would finish but it wouldn’t be my best work. My excerpts were sufficient but fragile like an old creaky bridge, one wrong step and it would crumble. Nevertheless I was confident in my ability to perform when it was…

Sam Pollard The Senses (Journal) Audition A busy street. A jet in the sky. A child crying. These are just some of the millions of sounds that you encounter on a daily basis. But, how do these sounds go from one object to another? How do our ears work? How do we perceive sound and do we perceive sound differently than others? Even though we cannot see the inside of our ears to find out what is going on, we do know that hearing is triggered by certain physical stimuli. Pressure waves are one thing…

Auditions at the Crane Youth Music (CYM) camp at Potsdam University are about to begin. June 28th was the day I was waiting for. The first official day of camp. This is it. I go up to the audition room and see the other trombones standing there waiting for their turns. I start shaking, holding my king, straight bone, student model trombone in my left hand while Ferdinand David’s Concertino Op. 4 was in my other. The other trombonists with their Bach Professional Bb/F 42B Stradivarius Tenor…

Zack Dylan, a Christian country boy who spent the last nineteen years of his life on a farm in a small town in Kentucky is about to have his simple life transformed into a fame filled life he has dreamt about all thanks to a Fifteen Minutes Audition, which is a show like American Idol or the Voice. Zack Dylan has a gift that he believes that is God given, his voice. With his family in fear of losing their farm because of expenses, Zack Dylan decides to audition to save his family’s farm and…

My audition for the film went pretty well today. It felt so nice to go in and not be a nervous wreck. I felt unusually confident because I really had no expectations. I just thought, "What the hell? Why not?" I didn 't even rehearse my song beforehand. Usually I am very diligent about rehearsing a song for an upcoming audition and as I listen to myself I start feeling like I must be crazy for thinking that I ever imagined that I could sing. My throat gets all constricted, I can 't hit the…

I took a deep breath and stared at myself in the mirrors before me. My eyes moved to the others in my audition group, to the judges, and then finally back to me. “Get set.” I heard from one of the judges. Her name was Stephanie and she was the Color Guard Caption Head for Phantom Regiment. I looked down, closed my eyes and waited for the music to begin. As a performer, I have been accustomed to auditions and have auditioned for several things over the course of my life, but my audition for…

You will perform the dance. You will teach the dance. You are done, now wait and see if you are accepted. Other information: Why do I have to do the audition? The club wants the best people to teach others, therefore an audition is needed to ensure that :D How many days do we get to learn the dance? Two weeks Do I have to do the exact dances that is given to me? Absolutely not! we encourage creativity. Treat the audition dance clip as a real kpop dance that you will teach. You have to show…

Evaluation In my narrative essay, my best friend tried to persuade me to audition for our school’s musical. In this situation, the rhetor is Sarah and the audience is me. Sarah’s main argument was that I would regret my decision later if I chose not to audition. The persuasion technique Sarah emphasized most strongly was pathos. Sarah began her first argument by saying she and I would spend at least an hour together after school. This argument would be considered pathos because it…

sweaty, heart pumping and nerves on edge. Audition time! You walk across the wooden boards and try to avoid the eyes of the lackluster auditors in order to open your mouth to speak… Shakespeare! Ugh. Shakespeare who is boring and makes no sense and makes you feel lost while speaking words that lack meaning while having some of the highest stake performances of your life. Why oh why, do we have to perform Shakespeare monologues as part of our auditions? For one reason or another, the two…

Thinking of high school plays and musicals, not much thought goes into the similarities and differences between the two people tend to think they are pretty much the same thing. Although in reality they are not, even when I start a play or a musical the audition process is different. Being part of the cast and crew can also be different depending on if a play or a musical. In the end, the performances are pretty much the same with slight differences in the preparation for the show. Auditioning…