Comments

If you won the audition in your mind, that's all that counts! Every audition is different and no matter how much you prepare there is always some anxiety/nerves it's learning to deal with them! I'm fine for performance settings (most of the time) but you stick me in an audition or a lesson situation and those 1-6 people terrify me more than an auditorium filled with 600.

Oh how I wish it was an unseen face seated in the darkened audience that did my auditions.

I sincerely hope that your fortune cookie is right!

I feel your pain!

Seriously, good for you. Every audition that you take in good faith is a growing experience, whatever the outcome.

You're brave.... Bet you a beer you made it. You can pay me back Wed. night. Brewhouse.

From Pauline Lerner
Posted from 70.108.125.168 on September 23, 2006 at 8:51 AM (GMT)

You are very brave.

From Linda Lerskier
Posted from 24.189.238.186 on September 23, 2006 at 4:05 PM (GMT)

Break the fortune cookie already!

Muahaha! I am not mad! I am Poe!

From Jim W. Miller
Posted from 172.191.24.33 on September 23, 2006 at 5:13 PM (GMT)

She's not brave, she's good. Good luck! Hmmm hope that doesn't curse it :)

From Emily Grossman
Posted from 209.112.220.164 on September 23, 2006 at 11:40 PM (GMT)

Thanks for the kind words, everyone.

Michael, if you're wrong, you get to play in the KPO fall children's concert with me. Or are you doing that already?

Hey Laurie, I gradually tweaked it up to 144, just once while practicing, and then came back down to earth. Auditioned at somewhere between 120-130, probably. 144 is insane. You need more than caffeine for that kind of speed.

From Michael Schallock
Posted from 66.230.113.106 on September 24, 2006 at 8:03 PM (GMT)

I am playing KPO but missing next sunday because of Tschaik 5 in Anchorage.
My daughter Jessica, is playing the first movt of Mozart piano concerto #20, I believe it is, with KPO that concert too, so I wouldn't miss it.

From Emily Grossman
Posted from 209.112.220.164 on September 25, 2006 at 6:09 AM (GMT)

Well, I guess I'll be missing that one, too!

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From Emily Grossman
Posted from 209.112.220.164 on September 25, 2006 at 6:11 AM (GMT)

...I mean, the Sunday rehearsal, not the KPO concert. Best wishes to your daughter, by the way.

From Gabriel Kastelle
Posted from 69.182.170.68 on September 25, 2006 at 4:16 PM (GMT)

Good for you following through-- hadn't heard for a while, and I wondered (I was right: you WERE practicing Schumann Scherzo!)