Audition

Well today was my audition. I still can't believe its over. Still in shock over here.

So..the reason why I've been posting all of these Theory notes online is because i knew there was going to be a Theory placement exam the same day as my audition. So since I haven't taken Theory in like 2 years i thought that i'd brush up on it again. Plus if it's on my blog it's there for future reference.

I decided i better look as professional as possible for my exam so i wore my white button up shirt, black dress pants, black dress shoes and hoop earrings. I thought i looked like i know what i was doing. Usually whenever i look good i feel good and i needed all of the confidence i could get cause i know this audition thing was stressing my out a bit. I was SO nervous! Even before i got to campus!

Theory exam was alright. SO glad i posted notes on my blog. They really helped alot. I hope i didn't ok on the exam........well I'm hoping for excellent, but i don't want to get my hopes up. After that i had a quick warm up with my accompanyist, and i was getting more and more nervous. I mean i couldn't help myself, it was getting worse. So went into te audition room and the only two people that were there to listen to me were Dr Gillis (sax prof) and Prof. McNeil (Dean of Music). I mean i've talked to these guys before, introduced myself, told them my situation, so i should have been ok. Wrong. i was still a nervous wreck. So i played "Two Bourees" first, because it was the worst one of the two and because i wanted it out of the way. I screwed up many many times in it and i couldn't correct anything because my accompanyist was still playing and i needed to keep up. I should have went slower than i was but i mean i was nervous here! I hope it went ok. Then i played "Cantilena". That one was a little bit better than the previous song i thought. However there were mishaps in that one too.

Then there was a short interview with the two profs. I learned a very valuable lesson as soon as the interview started : Never wear hoop earrings if you play an instrument with a neck strap. That's all i'm gonna say cause i felt retarded untangling the dumb things. They asked my why i wanted to be a band teacher and i said because I've always wanted to be a teacher, my band teachers had such a love for band and for teaching that it sort of rubbed off on me, and i figured that i might as well teach something that i love doing. Prof. McNeil said that my band teacher (Mrs.K) spoke very highly of me in the letter of reccommedation she sent him. I"m gonna ask her tomorrow if she can tell me what she wrote cause i'm curious. He also knew of me going to New Zealand and he suggested that i should take private lessons and rent a sax while i'm down there if i'm really serious about doing saxophone, and trust me I am. He said he also knows someone who works at the University in Auckland. That's amazing! Believe me, i was VERY thankful to hear that. He also said that even though i haven't really taken and type of private lessons I still have playing potential. Yay! He asked me if there was anything else I'd like to add to help convince him that i really wanted to be a teacher. I really wasn't expecting that type of question and i was really thinking of things to say. i told him that i taught ballet for about a year and that i was a cabin leader at camp. Both of them were writing things down i hope they were good things. I asked them a few things like "If i don't get into Music Education can i still be in Arts and Sciences and take music courses?" "Are there any scholarships available?" "How can i join other band at the University level?" stuff like that. I thanked them for there time and that was the end of it.

I just can't get over that fact that i'm done my audition. I mean i've been preparing for this thing for the past month and a half and it's OVER. *sigh* I'm sure the reality of it being over will hit me soon enough.