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[ysobel]

So one of my singing groups, not the one that has a concert coming up but the other one, has a concert coming up--

*eyes sentence*

Perhaps I should rephrase: the one that isn't the eastern european folk songs.

--and there's one bit that has a solo part. And auditions are tomorrow.

And *flail*

Thing is, I don't have a solo voice. I don't have vibrato, I don't have a whole lot of breath capacity, and I don't really have nice stops and starts. But. For this piece, for these pieces, not all of them but some, the director has been pushing for the sopranos to sound like English choirboys. High, clear, no vibrato...

I keep wibbling back and forth on whether or not I should try to audition. I know I won't get picked; even if I had the perfect voice, the director would probably go for a student, since this is University-affiliated and he allows some community members to sing but we're kind of second priority. So a part of me is saying, why bother. And it's not like I have much to lose, except that putting myself forward is kind of ... pushy. It's saying that I have a good enough voice, and therefore saying that I think I have a better voice than I actually do.

But there's that tiny little spark of maybe. And if I don't try out, I won't know.

*flail*

Comments

[synecdochic]

If you think you won't be devastated by not being selected -- if not being selected won't send Sigma into a spiral of you-suck -- try for it; go into it with the attitude of "hey, it's for shits and giggles and auditioning practice", with the expectation that you won't be selected, and just have fun with it.

[juliet]

This. The experience itself could be a fun thing regardless of the outcome.

[ysobel]

Honestly, I think Sigma would have gotten more ammunition out of me *not* doing it than me *doing* it but not getting it. Even though the end result is the same, not doing it would open the door for "you are as big wuss" and similar.

... I don't know. My brain is weird. *grin*

<3 and *hugs* and stuff

[draigwen]

This is pretty much what I was going to say.

[draigwen]

I fail - I was responding to synecdochic!