Students who will be joining Lawrence University in the Fall of 2013 will have New Student Auditions on September 16-17.
Returning students will be auditioning May 28-30, 2013.
Here's a quick guide to your successful Concert Choir audition:
1. Vocalizations
We’ll begin with vocalizations throughout your range. We’re listening to see both the upper and lower extensions of your range, but equally importantly, how comfortably you move through your voice and where your voice seems to lie most happily.
2. Tessitura
We’ll ask you to sing “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” in a variety of keys. We are looking to confirm our impressions of your ideal voice-range in the choral setting.
3. Preparation:
"Carmina Chromatico," by Orlando di Lasso (http://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/images/7/7c/Carmina_Chromatica.pdf)
Please be prepared to sing the entire motet on your voice-part. We will establish the key and give you your starting note, but you will sing it unaccompanied.
4. Dexterity:
We will ask you to sing scales from Do up to high Re and back at different starting notes throughout your range. You should be prepared to sing it at quarter note = 92.
5. Tonal recall
We will play a series of four notes, and then ask you to sing them back on [la]. We will continue with progressively more difficult patterns of four and five notes. This gives us a chance to assess your listening/hearing skills.
6. Rhythmic Reading
We will ask you to clap out a given line of music, and then continue with progressively more difficult passages.
7. Sight-singing
We will ask you to sing a given line of music in whatever way works best for you – whether that is Solfege or ‘la la la’ or something else is entirely your choice. We will continue with progressively more difficult passages.
