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Jan. 21st, 2005 06:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorrowmonkeyI auditioned for the York College Community Orchestra last night.
I did a few scales, some intervals "ah...AH....ah", oh, you mean the octave? Then I played the second movement of Holst's 1st Suite in E-flat for Military Band. I attempted Deep River after that, but made it about halfway through before my audition jitters took over. It was so awful I could barely play.
:-(
I haven't done an audition since 1994, and I forgot how nervous I get when doing them. I was fine, and then "wham!" it was like "Odd, I'm getting nervous." I think if I had gone into the audition on time, maybe it would be been better, but Mel was running behind.
I told him that the best way for me to get through auditions is to get the whole thing over with before I get too nervous. I learned Deep River when I was 14 years old. But, you would think that I had never seen a trumpet before by the time I got halfway through it. Ah well.
So the orchestra starts rehearsals next Tuesday. I'm expecting that Ivan will probably get principal because he's been the the organization for a long time, and you would have to be insane to make me principal after that audition. That does not bother me too much; I just hope that I can pull this together and become a decent trumpet player again.
Taking eleven years off seemed like a good idea at the time. I was so burned out from the University of Michigan Marching Band that I scarcely wanted to look at a trumpet again. In the last few years, however, it has become entirely clear that I needed to add music back into my life. I crave it.
I did a few scales, some intervals "ah...AH....ah", oh, you mean the octave? Then I played the second movement of Holst's 1st Suite in E-flat for Military Band. I attempted Deep River after that, but made it about halfway through before my audition jitters took over. It was so awful I could barely play.
:-(
I haven't done an audition since 1994, and I forgot how nervous I get when doing them. I was fine, and then "wham!" it was like "Odd, I'm getting nervous." I think if I had gone into the audition on time, maybe it would be been better, but Mel was running behind.
I told him that the best way for me to get through auditions is to get the whole thing over with before I get too nervous. I learned Deep River when I was 14 years old. But, you would think that I had never seen a trumpet before by the time I got halfway through it. Ah well.
So the orchestra starts rehearsals next Tuesday. I'm expecting that Ivan will probably get principal because he's been the the organization for a long time, and you would have to be insane to make me principal after that audition. That does not bother me too much; I just hope that I can pull this together and become a decent trumpet player again.
Taking eleven years off seemed like a good idea at the time. I was so burned out from the University of Michigan Marching Band that I scarcely wanted to look at a trumpet again. In the last few years, however, it has become entirely clear that I needed to add music back into my life. I crave it.
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Date: 2005-01-21 02:11 pm (UTC)Congrats.. takes lots of motivation and guts to do something like that. More often than not, most will just.. stay the course and continue to ignore something like this. :)