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College Audition Results

Author: Camanda  Date:   2005-04-02 20:34 Last weekend, I had two college auditions, one for University of Rhode Island and the other for Rhode Island College. Both of these are fairly good schools about twenty miles from where I live, with excellent performing arts departments. My preference is for URI: it's not in Providence, which is a city I get lost in routinely, and it has pep and marching bands. URI was Good Friday and it did not go as well as I might have liked. They let me pick my own scale, and I picked A major, out of which I left G# quite by accident. The second time I tried the scale, I put D# in it. I went from A Mixolydian to A Phrygian, never did quite get the major scale. That set the tone for the whole thing. My pieces were not as good as I'd done in my private lessons, and I was upset the entire way back home. RIC was the next day. My mood was brightened by the diagnostic theory test I had to take. I sat down with it and read it before beginning. They asked me to name key signatures, write major scales, a few minor scales, name intervals, name chords, and then tell them what the tune written at the bottom was. I was absolutely thrilled. My audition went much better as well. I wasn't asked to play a scale -- if I had, I wasn't picking A major again -- and my solos were a marked improvement, especially the Copland (the other was the von Weber Concertino). RIC has yet to get back to me, but I got a letter from URI this morning, telling me that I was accepted to the music program. So, barring any unforseen circumstances, such as RIC paying the rest of my tuition to go there, I will begin at URI next fall as a Music Education major. In part, I really need to thank all of you for your help, both by answering questions I asked and by posting all sorts of great information and opinions. I plan on staying around through college and beyond to get the same assistance from fellow clarinetists as I get now. Thank you all! Amanda Cournoyer URI Clarinet Ensemble, Bass Clarinet

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