Pre-Audition Blog

We have a music performance workshop class that all of the overzealous musicians (including myself) are auditioning for starting today.  I thought I'd get a head start and go on the first singer day, and then I went to bed last night with that eerie feeling like maybe I will wake up in the morning with a cold or maybe it will go away.  My throat is ON FIRE, but I can still sing.  Except now I'm in that scary place where I want to be warmed up but not over-sing today.  I just practiced with my accompanist and barely got through the last one even though I didn't sing all of them the whole way through.  This is not going to be the end of the world either way, but I hate walking into auditions scared.  I just do not get the vibe that everyone here wants to be supportive and share music with one another.  It's hard to put a bunch of performance majors together and expect us not to be a bit cut throat.  Lucky for me the coolest person in the world named Lily just sat down across from me.  She sings, and she makes my day.  I'm also hoping we get at least one awkward singer just to shake things up a bit.

I went to this film thing last night in front of the Rathaus (it's like the town hall except it looks like a beautiful palace and not a typical government building).  They play recordings of operas and concerts on a huge screen since it isn't opera haus season yet.  Tonight is Hansel and Gretel.  I think I shall go.  It's pretty cool because I just hop on the U-bahn (subway system) and find a close stop.  I'm becoming quite seasoned at public transportation.  

I'm in Intermediate German I for the 3 week intensive that we have before we start classes.  I forgot a lot of stuff from a year ago, but I think I can catch up.  Yesterday I gave a tourist directions in German, and today I ordered food without the server switching to English because he assumed I was a tourist.  Success.  I'm going to go finish being nervous before this audition starts.  On the bright side I get to hear all of the other music people this week (which should be a mostly bright side kind of experience) AND I have class and auditions in a palace everyday.  One point for Harry.

P.S.  I'm kind of paranoid about random people reading my blog, so I like to know all of the people who subscribe.  Now I know the list of subscribers is really long, but I managed to sift through it and find a person called "Bill".  I know a few Bills, but I can't identify this particular one.  So Bill:  If you're out there and reading this blog, thanks for keeping track of me, but who are you?