So yesterday I had my audition for my top choice and the audition went... horrid.
During the day everything went fine, I did my theory test and aural test and they both went pretty well. Plus I was able to participate in the school's chorale and I even made some good connections within the alto sections (when I walked into the audition room the head of the choir department who was judging my auditions said "You've made a big impression on the Altos... you've basically got some agents who are advocating for you" which I found pretty hilarious).
Now, the audition: The pianist for my audition came out before it was my turn to audition and asked to look at my pieces. She scanned through them pretty quickly and didn't even ask for the tempo of one of them. I don't blame her for this, as it was already 3:30 and they were a bit behind so the auditioners were trying to move the auditions along as quickly as possible. So I get called in and I start my first piece (which was the one she didn't ask my tempo for) and the pianist is dragging SO MUCH. I usually practice it at about 120 bpm with a metronome and she played it at what I can guess was about 90 bpm. When I would try to speed up, she would keep slowing down so I had to sing at her tempo in order to not sound like I didn't know how to keep time. And then, on the last page, it turns out the version that I printed had the song in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT KEY and the panel just decided that they had heard the best parts of the song and asked to move on to my second piece. I will take the blame for that key problem haha.
I wish I could say that was the worst that happened. The song I was singing has a few key changes, which I had circled and drawn an arrow to just in case. Well, half way through that song, the pianist forget to changes keys. Before you know it, we were both at different keys and different tempos and I got super nervous. My voice teacher had always told me to keep singing no matter what mishaps happen at an audition, so I just tried to brave through it and I got to the end of my piece, thankfully I was able to keep my original key down and I ended strongly on the high note that I was worried about.
I'm pretty okay with how my voice sounded, but I don't know if the problems with the pianist will affect their decision when it comes time to admit me. What do you guys think?
P.S. I don't blame the pianist one bit for what happened. It was late in the day and she was being rushed and from I overheard she was a student who had just volunteered to help out with audition day, so in a way I feel terrible for her too.
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