CCM Audition 1/25/14

ManVan
Fri, 24 Jan 2014 09:31:23 +0000

My son is a Junior at CCM and he helped with auditions in December (I’m not sure if he’s helping this weekend or not.) He talked to candidates and their parents. He organized resumes & head-shots, and led folks in and out of the audition room and sat at the table with the faculty. He had no “say” in the decisions, but he did get to listen in on the discussion and see the process up-close. I asked him for one “take-away” from the process.

He gave me two:

1.) Sitting at the audition table is hard. Listening to so many high school hopefuls and staying engaged takes ninja-like focus.

2.) From his perspective, he felt that those candidates who came into the room, who knew themselves, and were themselves, stood-out the most. My follow-up was, “What about talent?” He said that the talent was either there or it wasn’t. There were a lot of talented people walking through the door. It was the ability to “be themselves” (a term he kept using, but didn’t quite qualify) that sparked the audition.

In conclusion (?): Know yourself. Be yourself. Show yourself. (Remember, God’s not nervous about your audition.)

My advice (like you need it…) You’re not there to beg. Put your best stuff out there and make it hard for them to say “no” to you. That’s all you can do.