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Date: 05 April 2008 03:16:00
Being pleased but not overly excited about The Cathedral Singers, I decided to go for the option of 'auditioning the choirs as much as they audition me'. This week I went for Coro Innominata. Despite never being able to remember what their name is (let alone pronouncing it correctly), I went along to the audition. It was actually quite difficult.
First I sang my 'prepared' piece which was fine. Then I had to do a little exercise that he gave me that I had to put up a semitone until he said enough and then down a semitone (to test my range). Then came the toughy, he gave me a Dowland piece of music and the first note and told me to sing it the way I thought it should be (notes, rhythm etc.). By the way, all of this audition was unaccompanied so no help there. I got through the song and then he told me that the thing about sight-reading is to be able to quickly fix mistakes so he told me this 'b' should have been a flat etc. I then had to sing it again. My goodness. Anyway, I must have done alright because he let me into the choir.
I am finding it challenging, in a good way. I have already missed a month of rehearsals and have only been brought in to replace an alto that is unable to make this first concert so therefore I probably will not have a place after that but it is going to be a great experience for me up until that point.