- Jan 9, 2001
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The theater dept at my school is holding auditions for their spring musical, "Pippin." I have never heard the music, nor do I have any clue what it's about. Anyway, another pianist at the school and myself are always in demand to play rehearsals, auditions, and what-have-you for the theater folk. As they are holding auditions this week, my friend (the other pianist) agreed to play all the auditions except callbacks, which are tomorrow. I told the director sure, I'll cover callbacks, just get me the score whenever you can so I can take a look at it ahead of time.
Well, ahead of time was today, the day before. Still not a huge deal, I've sightread at a lot of these type things before, I'm a decent enough reader that it's not usually a problem. Except I've been looking at the score for several hours now and I can't make heads or tails of it. First off, many of these sections are impossible. No, not hard, but impossible, like you'd literally have to have a third arm or 15 freakishly long fingers or something. Second, the score contradicts itself, hard to explain if you're not a musician but you can get the picture-I really don't know what I'm supposed to play in certain areas.
So, I'm giving up. I'm gonna go play them tomorrow and do whatever I can, but a lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I feel bad, cause folks are gonna be auditioning over this, and I don't want to fsck them up. But I'm in a tough spot, what can I say? I know many of you are wondering why I don't just call up the other pianist and ask him what he did, but he's out of town (the reason I'm playing callbacks). I haven't seen him since he played the auditions, I don't know how he felt about it.
Grr! Sorry just needed to vent. I don't mind taking last minute gigs, that's part of being a musician, you have to be ready to do what needs to be done on little or no notice. But I just don't know what I can do here.
[/rant]
The theater dept at my school is holding auditions for their spring musical, "Pippin." I have never heard the music, nor do I have any clue what it's about. Anyway, another pianist at the school and myself are always in demand to play rehearsals, auditions, and what-have-you for the theater folk. As they are holding auditions this week, my friend (the other pianist) agreed to play all the auditions except callbacks, which are tomorrow. I told the director sure, I'll cover callbacks, just get me the score whenever you can so I can take a look at it ahead of time.
Well, ahead of time was today, the day before. Still not a huge deal, I've sightread at a lot of these type things before, I'm a decent enough reader that it's not usually a problem. Except I've been looking at the score for several hours now and I can't make heads or tails of it. First off, many of these sections are impossible. No, not hard, but impossible, like you'd literally have to have a third arm or 15 freakishly long fingers or something. Second, the score contradicts itself, hard to explain if you're not a musician but you can get the picture-I really don't know what I'm supposed to play in certain areas.
So, I'm giving up. I'm gonna go play them tomorrow and do whatever I can, but a lot of it ain't gonna be pretty. I feel bad, cause folks are gonna be auditioning over this, and I don't want to fsck them up. But I'm in a tough spot, what can I say? I know many of you are wondering why I don't just call up the other pianist and ask him what he did, but he's out of town (the reason I'm playing callbacks). I haven't seen him since he played the auditions, I don't know how he felt about it.
Grr! Sorry just needed to vent. I don't mind taking last minute gigs, that's part of being a musician, you have to be ready to do what needs to be done on little or no notice. But I just don't know what I can do here.
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