One week from today I will take an audition for the principal horn position in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. In the vein of everything else that I've done this year, the first audition I have taken. I'm pretty excited about it. I am very interested to see whether or not I will get nervous on the day that I audition. I get nervous now and then during large ensemble performances, but never during solo projects. This evening, while running through a visualization of the event, I did get nervous. Maybe the fact that I play recitals and solos in my mind several times before the actual event is enough to prevent any debilitating nervous shaking, or perhaps worse, erratic breathing.
Anyway, it's coming up fast. I've been putting in five to seven hours of preparation per day for the last month. In this late hour I still have excerpts that I cannot play as I would like, something that will be corrected before Thursday.
Mantra : "Eat, Practice, Sleep" (in reference to Phelps's daily experience).
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