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[sorrowmonkey]

I 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.

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[bkleber.livejournal.com]

I had the same music thing happen to me... burned out 'cause of an orchestra, took (fewer) years off, NEEDED it... I found, though, that playing for myself for a while was more fun than in the orchestra. (awful orchestral director is probably to blame for that). Good luck with it....