By Christine Simmons
Current eleventh grade Lyrical Lady, Callie Adler, got her last shot at concert choir this spring. She was auditioning for the third time.
Auditions were held in April for students who were interested in the group. The thing is; Concert Choir only has a few slots open per voice part. (Spots for Concert Choir are available when members that are already a part of it leave or graduate) The ones with the highest scoring in the audition will fill in the empty slots.
Although Lyrical Ladies is an auditioned group itself, the girls were a little nervous when the time came for the auditions. Adler said before tryouts, “I felt really nervous and really hopeful that I’ll do well.”
Girls who auditioned for Concert Choir in Lyrical Ladies worked for weeks preparing their voices for the big audition with practices with sight reading and practice runs with the Concert Choir selected audition piece.
The song “Shenandoah” was selected for the audition piece. Even though Lyrical Ladies was presented with the song only a week before the audition, they worked hard on preparing themselves vocally, and mentally as well.
Adler shared a little out about her feelings during the audition.
“I was still nervous of course, and I was like really happy when I did much better on my sight reading than last year. I expected much more to get in this year than last year.”
Each day, they practiced the song after each class period, if time was left over. Lyrical Ladies director Ms. Diane Richards would run the song with them and help with advice that she had which would help them “shape up” their voices for the song that they used.
The girls also prepped themselves for sight reading throughout the year. Adler worked hard on her sight reading before her audition. They were given papers with practice music that involved sight reading, to help them “shape up” their minds. Sight reading is variously difficult to the girls, but Adler has her opinion on the difficulty.
“Personally, it depends on the person on how hard it is”, she said.
After the auditions, there was a period of time before the results were released.
“The wait was pretty awful. As the date got closer I got really excited. On that day I kept forgetting I was going to receive the letter that afternoon, and when I remembered, I got butterflies in my stomach.”
On Friday, May 14, papers were in the office for the students who tried out. “I found out when I felt the thickness of the letter so I knew right away that I got it. I couldn’t believe it. I was so happy and I’m really happy and excited to practice over the summer with Concert Choir and get to know the people that I don’t already know”, said Adler.
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