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Author: Cindy
Date: 2002-05-31 04:46
What is the best way to deal with tension between auditioning and finding out if you made it?
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-05-31 04:57
Forget you even had the audition. Get back to life's routines, friends, and fun. If yoiu haven't got those, go get 'em.
It may not seem so right now, but there's much more to life than auditions.
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Author: William
Date: 2002-05-31 15:26
Go directly to your practice facility (mine is an upstairs bedroom) and practice the excerpts you just "screwed up" on so your will be better prepared (and more confident) for you next audition. All auditions require a certain amount of "luck" that you will play exactly what the "ears behind the curtain" want to hear. But remember that, "chance favors the prepared mind." Rarely does one win their first audition, and some..........never. But the most prepared clarinetist (with the most audition and playing experiance) has the definate advantage. So, rather than worrying about "if you won or not," use that time to better your chances in the future. Never give up, auditioning or practicing. Good Clarineting!!!! (now and "next")
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-05-31 15:48
Look ahead, Cindy
During those long, seemingly endless, times between giving it your best shot and waiting for the result, of anything that's important to you, can be agonizing - IF you dwell on it.
I've found what Gordon says to be very good advice. Do something nice for someone, pull garden weeds, go biking or walking with a friend or organize your room.
Life does not totally revolve around auditions, the result of your last job interview or what your grade point average is. Those are incidentals. Life is composed of choices. Interviews and auditions, related to your major interests, help you make deciisions and look at your options. That's all. During your life span, this audition will pale into a fond or not so fond memory in a few months. However it turns out, it's over, past, gone....
Look ahead
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2002-05-31 16:18
I also tend to agree with what Gordon says. However, William's advice makes sense too -- there might be a callback.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: David Dow
Date: 2002-06-03 13:53
I play currently Principal with an orchestra and find that the best way for myself in auditioning is to work the exerpts up to the fastest and slowest tempi possible and expect the people at the audition are going to ask for alot of divergence within a movement of the speed you can articulate a given passage at. Look for nasty experts like Sibelius 1 Scherzo which is on some lists! Don't be fazed by the process and allow yourself some artistic freedom! They are also looking for musicality and the ability to recover from fluffs and errors. ...play with a verey acurate sense of rythmn and stick to the metronomic style unless the auditors ask you to play a passage faster or slower. Don't become unglued and remember that music is like life...and don't practice after an audition-I went for a beer and then a walk in the park...
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