It's been a long time since an audition

January 5, 2007, 12:21 am

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Just got back from an audition for a chamber choir, Sacred & Profane. It went quite well. Not a shoe-in or anything, it being a small chorus with limited space and definitely some competition from what I heard tonight... but personally speaking, it was enlightening. I'd call it my first audition as an "adult". The Ryerson choir let anyone in, and when I was in the TMYC I auditioned way back in high school. So yeah, first grown-up audition. Nerve wracking and exciting at the same time :)

My range wasn't as horrible as I thought, having not actually sung anything in years, she had me from an F below middle C up to a high B. A little croaking going on though... heh. My ear is terrible though. Somehow I remembered having a better ear than I've realized in these past weeks. And surprisingly, I read cold very well. But I was nervous and easily flustered. Definitely noticed a big contrast in professionalism between myself and the next girl, who didn't seem to have quite as pure a tone but totally rolled with it when she couldn't quite get something. But she said I was taking her direction well...

They need sopranos, so I'm really looking forward to stretching my high range again.

*bounces* She said I should hear back within a couple of days.

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Good luck

Submitted by sedawa on January 5, 2007 - 12:55am.

Hi, new member here. Best of luck with the audition.

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That's great, Steph! Hope

Submitted by Cuddlemonster on January 5, 2007 - 7:09am.

That's great, Steph! Hope you get in. You have such a good voice, they'd be crazy not to take you. Sometimes, if you don't sing regularly, it's very easy to forget just how much fun singing in a choir can be.

I just recently had my first audition as an adult too, but it was for a play. And I got a part :D Not surprising though, it is only a town of 4500 people, and even including Petawawa and Pembroke the area's only ~50,000 strong. Anyway, I'm playing Annelle in Steel Magnolias in April, and I'm kinda pumped. They made a movie of it with Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton and Shirley MacLane... and some other famous people I don't know. 80's small town tragic comedy meets female bonding. Gotta love it.

I also just started trying to limber up for Evita auditions a few months away. Thank god I have some time... you wouldn't believe what 7 months of vocal silence will do to an untrained voice :\ (Well, you probably would. It really ain't pretty.) Be that as it may, I'm perservering and I'm pretty sure I'll have it back by the end of February. Still, that audition's going to be nervewracking as hell.

Marg

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Thanks :) And awesome

Submitted by StephTheGeek on January 5, 2007 - 1:59pm.

Thanks :)

And awesome Marg, good luck too!

"you wouldn't believe what 7 months of vocal silence will do to an untrained voice"

Believe me, I understand. It was hard to get up there knowing how rusty I was. It does make a huge difference. She was reminding me of so many things I know I should know.

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Congrats to both Steph and

Submitted by comandergood on January 5, 2007 - 5:23pm.

Congrats to both Steph and Marg. Break a leg. And by that I mean good luck not to actually break your leg.

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Congrats

Submitted by wiesel_3 on January 5, 2007 - 8:34pm.

Steph and Marg, way to go. Good luck to both. I was a voice major many years ago and believe me I know what you mean about being rusty.

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Awwww... thanks guys!

Submitted by Cuddlemonster on January 5, 2007 - 8:49pm.

Awwww... thanks guys! :D

Marg

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