Honor Choir Auditions
On-Line Application Registration Deadline: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Audition Dates: First Rehearsal: Honor Choir Weekend:
Saturday, September 25, 2010 Saturday, October 30, 2010 9am 4pm Friday & Saturday, November 19-20, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010 Cal Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica
Honor Choir Concert: California All-State Honor Choir:
November 20, 7:30pm March 31-April 2, 2011, Sacramento, CA
REMINDERS About Auditions
Remember that the scoring amounts are weighted such that the performance is worth 40% and the theory portion worth 60% of the total score.
Solo: all auditionees will prepare and sing a solo from the Twenty-four Italian Songs and Arias" (G. Schirmer) or equivalent art song book. The solo MUST be memorized, sung in Italian and accompanied by tape, CD or an accompanist supplied by the auditionee. Adjudicators will be listening for tone quality, diction, pronunciation, musical sensitivity and appropriate vocal range.
Range: all auditionees will demonstrate their vocal range through a short series of warm-up exercises.
Tonal Memory: all auditionees will demonstrate tonal memory skills by singing back a 4-5 note passage played by one of the adjudicators. You may sing back on any neutral syllable.
Scales/Triads: all auditionees will prepare and sing a major and minor triad, a major scale and a chromatic scale on any neutral syllable.
Sight-Reading: all auditionees will demonstrate rhythmic and melodic sight-reading skills by singing a single, unaccompanied melodic line on any neutral syllable.
NOTE: Students must provide their own accompanist or an accompanying CD or tape IN THE PROPER KEY!