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The Music Audition
Music audition
It was a Tuesday, not a regular Tuesday, but that Tuesday. It was the day that would define how the course of my career would go. You might be thinking what is it that I have today that seems so important. It was piano auditions Tuesday for Juilliard School, and as a musician, auditions are the most terrifying thing you will ever experience, trust me on this. I wondered, was it ever possible to have fun at an audition? or does it always have to feel like if you were run over by a freight train? As all these questions came up into my mind I started to breathe hesitantly, to sweat, my feet were unsteady and my hands were shaking.
8:27 am… This was me trying to expect the best…currently expecting the worst. I did practice enough for an entire year for this audition, but was enough really enough? Every single thought that crossed my mind to tranquil me ended up questioning me more. I arrived to Juilliard and I waited in the waiting room. Some people there seemed incredibly confident, which made me feel even more doubtful and pessimistic. Now it was finally time for my audition, my big moment. My hands were sweating. First image that came to my mind were my fingers sliding due to my sweaty hands.
There were three people evaluating the auditions, two men and one woman. They asked me to begin, so I began. First compass and I already made a mistake. “It is over”, I said to my head. I could not keep playing, my interpretation was filled with mistakes… I stopped. The evaluators told me to star over and to relax, so I closed my eyes and began to play. I felt I was entirely alone, only me and the piano. My fingers started to fall delicately on the keys naturally; I was playing like never before. I was really enjoying what I was playing, to the point that if they would have talked to me, I would have probably not listened. I felt goose bumps in my arms due to the perfect melody, my fingers were impeccably synchronized.
My eyes were still closed when I finished playing, and had forgotten that I was at an audition with other people. They had to call my attention in order for me to realize were I was. When I heard them talking to me I turned to them and I saw them smiling. “That is what music is about” the woman told me, “to play for yourself and forget about the rest”. They did not say anything else besides telling me that they will let me know through the course of the week if I made it. My mom had arrived and I smiled all along until I reached the car. “So, how was it?”, she told me. “I had fun”, I responded, and said nothing else. I was quiet all the way back home, trying to explain to myself what happened in that audition. I guess I do not know if I will make it, due to my terrible beginning, nonetheless, I made my ever best interpretation. Regardless of their decision I will always remember this day as a remarkable day. Well after all, you can actually have real fun at an audition
