After reading a recent post on Matt Heller’s hella frisch blog, I found this delightfully maddening story about a recent audition experience from a Washington, D.C. violinist. Check out her tale on her blog Dragons and Princesses. She is just trying to warm up and some obnoxious Russian violinist comes into her warm-up room and starts telling her how to play her excerpts, and then an audition monitor comes in to inform her that the committe has been able to hear her warm up for the past half hour!
It is small but obnoxious things like these that can make an audition go from good to bad. Some auditions are run without a hitch–my recent experience auditioning for the Kansas City Symphony and my not-so-recent experience auditioning for the Seattle Symphony fall under this category. I can think of many others that were run badly for whatever reason, but I’ll hold off on mentioning any specifics right now because I will be writing a few more bizarro stories of my own pertaining to the badly run auditions.
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Thanks for posting this. Great blog! Love the cat stuff and humor.
Thanks a lot! I try not to post about cats too much, but every once in a while something slips through. I could happily post cat pictures all day long. Usually my two furry friends sit next to me when I am working on my laptop. They like to crawl behind the warm screen and sleep while I work. It’s hard not to post about cats when you have little fuzzy feet poking out from behind the screen.
I am really enjoying your audition stories! They’re such a crazy part of this business.