Audition

was the night before the audition at the time, and I was anxious about acquiring any part. Despite this, my mother helped me practice and to make my audition better so that when the time for the audition came, I managed to get in, while another sixty or so were cut from the cast. I have to give my mom credit for that, and without her to help me, I would have taken a much different direction in extracurricular activities and I would not like performing or even try to audition for another one…

convincing me to audition for the weapon line of the Crossmen World Class Drum and Bugle Corps. He was so convinced I would make it and be one of the best that he was as surprised as I was when I got cut at my second audition camp. At both audition camps I had the pleasure of attending, I was stunned at how I was actually one of the worst there; it was a feeling I had not felt since I first started color guard. Frustrated that I could not grasp the hard skills they taught us at auditions, I…

several months preparing to audition for the All-State music festival. As a senior I wanted to walk into the audition room knowing that I could give the best performance I was capable of and hopefully make it into All-State. The summer before my senior year, I put aside my shyness and started taking voice lessons. My voice teacher told me at every lesson to come back better than today. In the following weeks through summer and early fall, I immersed myself with the audition music, it played…

preparations I had done for the audition. Afterwards, I was very proud of my performance, but I didn’t know if it was enough to earn a seat in the ensemble. Upon finding out that I did not make it into the choir, I was crushed. I felt like my months of hard work had been ruined and I would be a disappointment to my family. I vowed that I wouldn’t waste my time with auditioning for the chorus again the next year. However, after much thought, senior year I chose again to audition. Over the past…

year. When it was time for auditions again, I became almost obsessive over learning the material. I ran my part for hours on end at different tempos with various dynamic stresses and inflictions. This audition was my last chance at an opportunity I had been chasing for the last six years of my life. My newest long term goal, to study Music Education in college, was almost completely forgotten in the chaos of audition preparation. By the time it was my turn to audition, I was emotionally drained…

It was one week before auditions. Seven days, one-hundred and sixty-eight hours, and what felt like millions of seconds between me and an audition room that would decide my fate. Since the beginning of freshman year, girls would dream about the day they would have the opportunity to sing as a member of the most elite choir at Wayzata High School: Concert Choir. From ten minute Mozart masses to twelve part harmonies, there was not a single student who didn't salivate over the perfect chords and…

Midnight Special auditions were in the late August of 2016, and the pressure was monumental. The people who made it into Midnight Special were the best of all singers in the school. Therefore, I saw these auditions as a way to prove to myself and others of my talent for singing. I thought of the auditions as a self-discovery, but ended up ripping my soul out-- for a while. My thoughts varied in the spectrum from moderate confidence to torturous worry and fear. The most prominent fear I was…

It was January 12, 2013, when a Catoosa County bus carried anxious students from Heritage High to an audition some would not soon forget. In making the first round qualifications, my friends and I had the honor of riding that bus to audition for the GMEA All-State Band. I was making last minute tweaks to my audition piece when the bus pulled up to Perry High School. The air in and outside the bus was thick with anxiety and excitement, yet my two best friends and I remained ready and confident to…

The most significant challenge I faced would actually be quit recently in life. It actually happened the first week of school on the second day. It all began when my theatre teachers set the date for the upcoming Musical The Addams Family. This meant I would have to do something out of my comfort zone sing and dance. I knew this was going to be a challenge but I was willing to do it. As a little girl I loved to dance, there wasn't a party I didn't dance at I considered myself to be pretty good…

Districts audition. It was late fall of 8th grade when Mr. Wright explained that Junior Districts was a program that had 7th through 9th graders audition to participate in an advanced band, orchestra, or jazz band. I had tried out on mallets for Junior Districts in 7th grade. That audition was both a failure and a lesson to practice more before auditioning for Junior Districts, because qualifying on percussion isn’t as easy as I thought.…