Early Audition - Good or Bad?

mercymom
Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:09:10 +0000

I don’t know if this is maturity or 16 year old insanity. But to answer your question, no preparation per se. However, tommorrow is his All-State Choir concert, and rehearsals started yesterday, continue all day today and tommorrow morning. The concert is in the afternoon. He and his friend leave for Hendrix on Sunday, so he will be singing two of his All-State songs on Monday, at which point he will be as prepped on the songs as is possible, I suppose.

The Hendrix web site says they only have to sing 2 songs of their choosing, of “contrasting styles”, whatever that means. I just drive the car and deliver him to activities, no personal knowledge of any music details. One thing is he got an email from Hendrix two days ago that as the boys are in 11th grade, the prof is going to make this a “coaching audition”, which I assume means he will just critique the boys (individually) and offer assessment/advice.

From discovering and reading the music major threads on CC, it now looks to me that the whole process is a lot more complicated at some of the other colleges, so I wouldn’t reccommend “flying blind” like my S if you are dealing with a high school senior. But this has kick started my own research for S and hopefully will result in more informed decisions in the future for his college search. That is, if I can get past his male teenager stubborness.