DISTRICT I SENIOR LEVEL INFORMATION
SENIOR LEVEL AUDITION/FESTIVAL INFORMATION
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Senior Auditions: October 13, 2009 at Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale IL
Nomination Deadline: September 23, 2009
Audition Fee: $7.00 per audition
IMPORTANT: When registering your students for auditions, please select "PM", "Evening" or "No Preference." "PM time slots will be approximately 4:45-6:45 pm. Evening time slots will be approximately 6:45-9:00 pm. Every effort will be made to honor requests. However, we make no guarantees.
Senior Band/Chorus/Orchestra Festival: November 21, 2009 at Lincoln-Way West High School, New Lenox, IL
Senior Jazz Festival: November 14, 2009 at West Leyden High School, Northlake, IL
Representative: Brian Covey – bcovey@lths.org
Audition Information: http://www.ilmea.org/division.shtml
Audition Recording - Band and Orchestra Divisions
The IMEA District I Band and Orchestra Divisions will again be working with multiple “tracks” in the large instrument groups. Each student will complete their cycle of auditions including scales - sight reading - etude in a particular track. To keep the audition times concluding at a reasonable hour based upon the number of entries, the following instruments will be placed into tracks (flute - 3, clarinet - 3, saxophone - 2, trumpet - 2, horn - 2, trombone - 2, percussion – 2, violin -3). To secure the most accurate chair placements for the 1st part players (all-state consideration), the auditions ‘etude’ rooms will be recorded. A percentage of each room will have their auditions reviewed by a panel of judges. Those two or three judges will then rank the students into a chair order based upon their review of actual performance rather than speculation and opinion from multiple hours of auditions.
The auditions will be recorded onto high quality microphones and audio only stored as computer file. The students will be logged by their IMEA audition number, with all school, name, and grade information being withheld from the adjudicators. A separate worker will be operating the recording process so the judge may concentrate on the initial performance from the student. That worker will be trained ahead of the audition evening and be proficient with the technology used. At the conclusion of the evening, the panel of judges will collaborate and the chair placements will be decided. The ranking from each independent room of the initial audition will remain in the order placed, but will be integrated into each of the other rooms. (If a student finishes third in their initial cycle room, they will not be able to move higher than the two students initially scored ahead of them. They may end up placed higher or lower than students in the other cycle rooms, but will not advance or recede against their original room ranking).
Conductor: Jack Williamson - Central Michigan University
Repertoire:
Scenes from the Louvre - Dello Joio (Hal Leonard)
Rhosymedre - Vaughan Williams/Beeler (E. C. Schirmer)
Army of the Nile - Alford/Fennell (Boosey and Hawkes)
Dance of the Jesters - Tchaikowski/Cramer (Curnow Music Press)
Representative: Michael Popplewell – popplewellm@epcusd401.org
Audition Information: http://www.ilmea.org/division.shtml
Audition Reminders:
- Triads are to be sung as only ascending - not ascending and descending
- Students should expect to sing three out of four triads: one Major triad and two others (minor, diminished and augmented)
- Students should expect to sing two out of four scales (up and down with the top note not repeated): one Major scale and one out of three minor (harmonic, melodic or natural (Aolian))
- There will be two sight reading exercises: one Major and one minor.
Chorus Division Callbacks – Senior Level Only
As voted on by the District I Membership, voice parts with large numbers of entries will be heard in multiple rooms on audition night. In 2009, these voice parts will be Soprano I, Soprano II, Alto I, Alto II, and Bass I. A top percentage of each room will be selected for a callback audition at the District festival.
The callback audition will take place mid-day at the Festival. The callback audition will consist of a single prepared selection and a sight-singing exercise. The rubric used to evaluate the callback audition will be modeled after the rubric used on audition night.
Repertoire:
1. The Last Words of David (Randall Thompson) -- All-State required
2. Daemon Irrepit Callidus (Gyorgy Orban) -- Hinshaw #3094182
3. Lay a Garland (Robert Pearsall, ed. Bartlett) -- All-State required
4. Tching-Tchinga-Ryah (David Maddux) SSAA -- Alliance Music #AMP 0585
5. A-Rovin (arr. Norman Luboff) TTBB -- Walton Music #1004
6. Finale from "The Gondoliers" (Gilbert and Sullivan ed. Clough Leighter) Schirmer #356
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9/10 Chorus:
Conductor: Robert A. Boyd, Northwestern University
Accompanist: Constance Lyda, Lyons Township High School
Repertoire:
1. Sanctus (Gabriel Faure) SATB, arr. Boyd
This arrangement available for download as a pdf file by clicking HERE
2. Sing to Me, Shining Stars (Robert Boyd) SATB, Colla Voce 15-96150
3. Go Down Moses (Mark Hayes) SATB, Hinshaw HMC 704
Representative: Anne Branch – abranch@sbcglobal.net
Audition Information: http://www.ilmea.org/division.shtml
This year's audition piece for bowed instruments is Russlan and Ludmilla. Viola, cello, and bass players should prepare the entire part on addition to the required scales and sight reading.
All violins should prepare the following excerpts from BOTH the first and second violin parts:
Violin I: beginning to m. 148 - m. 228-272 - m. 290 to end
Violin II: m. 101-118 - m. 313-369
Required Scales: All Quarter Note = 120 and Detached Bowing
C, G, D, A, E, F and Bb Major
c and g melodic minor
Violin-Viola-Cello: Three octaves
String Bass: Two octaves
Harp Audition Requirements:
Etude: Studies in Arpeggios (Pages 133-5) - Universal Method for the Harp (Boscha-Oberthuer) Carl Fischer - Quarter Note = 45
Excerpt: Scheherazade (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) - 2nd Movement (8 Before "Q" to 13 Before "R") - Kalmus # A1914 - Luck's # 06473
Audition Recording - Band and Orchestra Divisions
The IMEA District I Band and Orchestra Divisions will again be working with multiple “tracks” in the large instrument groups. Each student will complete their cycle of auditions including scales - sight reading - etude in a particular track. To keep the audition times concluding at a reasonable hour based upon the number of entries, the following instruments will be placed into tracks (flute - 3, clarinet - 3, saxophone - 2, trumpet - 2, horn - 2, trombone - 2, percussion – 2, violin -3). To secure the most accurate chair placements for the 1st part players (all-state consideration), the auditions ‘etude’ rooms will be recorded. A percentage of each room will have their auditions reviewed by a panel of judges. Those two or three judges will then rank the students into a chair order based upon their review of actual performance rather than speculation and opinion from multiple hours of auditions.
The auditions will be recorded onto high quality microphones and audio only stored as computer file. The students will be logged by their IMEA audition number, with all school, name, and grade information being withheld from the adjudicators. A separate worker will be operating the recording process so the judge may concentrate on the initial performance from the student. That worker will be trained ahead of the audition evening and be proficient with the technology used. At the conclusion of the evening, the panel of judges will collaborate and the chair placements will be decided. The ranking from each independent room of the initial audition will remain in the order placed, but will be integrated into each of the other rooms. (If a student finishes third in their initial cycle room, they will not be able to move higher than the two students initially scored ahead of them. They may end up placed higher or lower than students in the other cycle rooms, but will not advance or recede against their original room ranking).
Conductor: Donald Schleicher
Repertoire:
1. Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)
2. Russlan and Ludmilla (Glinka)
Representative: Anthony Svejda – asvejda@oprfhs.org
Vocal Jazz: Stacy Cunningham - scunningham@leyden212.org
Audition Information:
VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Audition Procedures: For all audition procedures, please go to this link: http://www.ilmea.org/div_proc-jzchoir.shtml
Audition Selections:
Take the A Train (SATB)
Arr. Stephen Zegree
Shawnee Press - A 2009
A Nightengale Sang in Berkeley Square (SATB)
Arr. Gene Purling
Hal Leonard - 07357775
Conductor: Jim Yarbough, Naperville North High School
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