Today was one of the most important days of my life so far. It was my music audition to MSU. It started out kinda crappy but I think/hope it ended well. Heres a short recap of what happened.
Woke up at 7am cause mom called the lil bro. Went back to sleep on and off anyway til 7:45. Spent forever straightening my hair and got dressed. Left the house bout 8:30 an had to go back because I forgot my schedule. Mom had to drive really slow cause of the rain. Jumped out of the car in the middle of the road AGAIN!:) About 10:10 I had arrived. I was a little late but I didn't miss a thing. Sat in the recital hall for about an hour for the introduction where one of the head people in the music department talked about the music program and I watched a recital that was very awesome. About 11 all of the students went into the lecture room and had some q&a with some MSU music students. Mom had a meeting with the faculty in the recital hall. I stayed in the lecture hall for about an hour and a half for the q&a and the theory test. I'm pretty sure I bombed the test but I should know about Thursday. If you are wondering why we take the test, its basically a placement test like math and english. If I didn't pass, I can go to theory camp which sounds cool but its another $150. I NEED a job. After the test about noon, mom and I had a small lunch at the student union. The walk to the union sucked cause it was cold, I had no hoodie, and I was wearing my dress. I ran into a friend from music camp.It was pretty awesome cause we hadn't seen each other since June and at camp, you are friends with EVERYONE. She had a clarinet audition so we didn't see much of each other. Then we walked back to moms car and I grabbed a few things including my hoodie. About 1pm we found a practice room and I warmed up and pracrticed by myself. It was pretty weird because I always have someone to help me warm up and stuff. By 1:30 mom and I made it upstairs where the audtions were held. I was 5th on the list. I could have stalkers now thanks to that list. It had all of our names, addresses, phone numbers, and all of that stuff on it and everyone could see it. The wait till my turn was a long and nerve-wracking wait. At about 2:20 it was finally my turn. I walked into that recital hall, which is super awesome, and met my accompanist (also the dude I had a meeting with when I visited the campus for the first time). I showed him my songs, went over tempos, and then it was time. It kinda started off bad. I got my composers backwards and didn't realize it until I almost announce my last composer. So the judge who I think didn't like me from the beginning, gives me a glare and I apologize and say everything correctly the second time. My first song went pretty well other than a few breathing problems and I'm almost positive I went flat one time. Then came my second song. Two words: Piano Disaster. The accompanist had a very hard time playing that piece because it is very fast and plain difficult. He even knew it was going to be crazy cause he looked at it and said good golly. I sang, heard some crazy piano rhythms, and hit my crazy high note without any problems. I think I blew one of the judges away cause Iheard them whispering after I finished the song. The best part was the high note echoed throughout the room. Then came tonal memory, which I think I rocked. Lastly was the worst part. The big word everyone hates. Sightreading! I bombed it big time. The accompianist was like can you redo that, you had the notes right but the rhythm was a little wacky. I did bad again. I am not a fan of sightreading. At last the hard stuff was over. I got asked about my major, received a few smiles from the judges and a glare from the judge who probably hates me, and I got a CD of the Concert Chorale, the touring choir at MSU, from their tour in Austria. One day I hope to be in that choir. Hopefully then. they will go to Europe, mainly London. We left the hall at about 2:35 and walked in the rain, which was cold, and finally made it to the car. It was all done with.
Ok, that wasn't short but not many details could be left out because it would make no sense. I honestly don't know how it went. I am kinda thinking negativily, but I was still bummed from sightreading because it went so bad and after I left I realized it was soooooooo easy and I had messed it up. Oh well, nothing I can do now. The bad thing though is, all i can think about is what I did wrong and how bad it might hurt me. This day could be a life changer. I get in, I am on my way to becoming a music teacher. I don't and I am bummed a whole year and am off track. I really hope that I nailed my songs though. I findd out in two weeks, which will feel like forever. It already does. At least I have a backup plan.
On to the story about jumping out of the car in the middle of the road. This always seems to happen every time I go to MSU. The first time was in January when I first visited the campus. We were running late for the same reason we were late today, the weather, except it was snowing this time. Our meeting with the same guy who play piano for me today was at 10:30. We arrived at MSU at 10:35 and so while mom is trying to find parking, she tells me and my friend to jump out of the car when we get close to the curb. Luckily we survived. Bad thing though, we were at he wrong building. We ran to the music building while freezing our butts off. Hopefully the next time I visit MSU I won't have to risk my life :).
Well I think thats it for today. Two weeks can't come any sooner.
BTW, this post was written on March 26th but posted the 27th because my laptop died in the middle of typing.
Currently listening to: The Cave-Mumford and Sons
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