This certainly does shed some light on the stresses of auditioning.
> -----Original Message----- > From: DIANE M. CLARK (MUSIC DEPARTMENT) [SMTP:DCLARK@r...] > Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 2:22 PM > To: vocalist-temporary@egroups.com > Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] Re: Met Auditions > > Naomi wrote: > > >The thing the judges can never tell you is why > you sang well but didn't win. > > As one who has judged Met Auditions, NATS Auditions, and many other vocal > com- > petitions, I will have to pick a little at this statement. If I am > judging > a competition with 10 singers, it is possible that they may all sing well. > This is especially true if they have won a district level and are not at a > regional level competition. They ARE all winners! Yet my job as a judge > is > to pick the winners at this level. Let's say I have to choose 3 winners. > Now these 10 singers all sing well (or they wouldn't be there), but not > one > of them is perfect. I have to look for the differences in their technique > and in their basic instruments that will allow me to score 3 of them > higher > than the others. Maybe one has fabulous breath control. Maybe one has a > superb trill. Maybe one has a luscious warm timbre. Maybe one is totally > in > character. maybe one makes me weep (for the right reasons). Of course, > all > of this is tinged with personal preferences on the part of each judge. > Now if > one of the singers who did not win asks me why he didn't win, which he > should- > n't anyway, the correct answer is, "You didn't win because I liked Mary's > singing better than yours." But no judge is going to say that, so they > will > sidestep the question. As a judge, I would rather tell the singer what he > did well and encourage him, than to tell him that I liked another singer's > voice or technique better than his. If I have opportunity to make > suggestions > for improvement, I'll happily do that, too, but not all competitions allow > > written comments. A singer who enters competitions just has to come to > terms > with the fact that not everybody can win, even if they are all excellent > singers. Sometimes good people do not win. It's the nature of the beast. > If > you can't take the heat, sty out of the kitchen. > > (The above would make more sense if I had typed it correctly. It should > read, > "and are NOW at a regional level competition.") > > |\ Dr. Diane M. Clark, Assoc. Prof./Chair of Music Dept., Rhodes > College > | 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112, 901-843-3782, dclark@r... > () http://gray.music.rhodes.edu/musichtmls/faculty/dclark.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > You have a voice mail message waiting for you at iHello.com: > http://click.egroups.com/1/3555/3/_/843894/_/957460935/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > vocalist-temporary-unsubscribe@o... > >
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