Dear Directors,
It is that time of year again. Auditions, auditions, and more auditions, and oh yes, clinics too.
I have attached two files that you need to download or save, fill out, and send to the following people.
File #1: 08-09 All County Band Director Registration
This form will be used to place director’s into the appropriate rooms for judging. If you have a specific instrument request or a specific need, please put that in and we will try to establish those request. However, this date should be clear on everyone’s calendar for the auditions. Also, if you will have a student teacher or know someone that can and is willing to judge, please list them also so that we can have enough people. Finally when you finish filling out the sheet, all of these sheets should be sent to Jeremy Ray at Southeast Guilford High School. I will put together a list of judging assignments and send those out prior to the auditions. If you have already saved this file and filled in the appropriate needs for All-District, you can just send me that file.
File #2: 08-09 All County Band Registration
This form is the pre-registration form so that we will know how many students you will have attending the audition. This is the same form that is used for All-District, so if you have that form, please just send it. Also, USE THE FORM. If you don’t use the form, it will be returned to you to fill out correctly, we do not have time to type in the names of each individual student that is auditioning. Finally, here is where you send the form and you must send it electronically. You need to send the form to two people, the chairperson and the scoring chair. Here is where:
MS:
Stephanie Linville – MS Audition Chair
Brad Haywood – MS Scoring Chair
HS:
Jeremy Ray – HS Audition Chair
Ricardo Reid – HS Scoring Chair
Finally, the students need to play the following for the audition:
Scales: Concert B-flat, E-flat, A-flat, F, and Chromatic (The scales need to be played in the order that they are in on the sheet for the All-District solos. This may be different for each instrument.)
**HS scales must be memorized, MS scales do not have to be memorized.
Solo: We will use the Central District All-District Solo List. Also, if a solo is longer than two pages, we will only use the first two pages of the solo.
Sight-Reading: There will be sight-reading for each instrument.
That is all I can think of right now. I’m sure over the next month, there will be more information coming. For those going to the district auditions, see you Saturday. For everyone else, see you at our next meeting or the auditions.
~Jeremy Ray
