Texas Music Educators Region 18 Vocal Division Audition
You are invited to Area singing competition
You will not miss school since it's on a Saturday but must be eligible per the 3rd six weeks.
Alternates will be called "up" in the event someone is unable or becomes ineligible.
www.region18.net
Congratulations!
Sydney Lepage 1st alternate Soprano 2 Not called up
Clint Laroux 3rd Chair Alto 2
Sloan Dudley 1st alternate Alto 2 Not called up
Tyler Rose 1st alternate Tenor 1 Not called up
Owen Plunkett 4th chair Baritone
Jacob Lepage 1st alternate Baritone Not called up
Area Information
Site: Reagan HS (San Antonio)
19000 Ronald Reagan, San Antonio, TX 78258
Host: Mary Cowart
Date: November 14, 2017
Subject: Area E Auditions - Saturday, January 13, 2018
Reagan High School –Mary Cowart, Christian De la Cruz, Amanda Jeffries-Hardy, Hosts
Registration 8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Director’s meeting at 8:15 a.m.
Congratulations for advancing to the Area audition!
Music to be auditioned for Large Schools:
Gloria, Poulenc, Movements 5 and 6
Signs of the Judgment, Butler
Celebremus, Luengen (SSAA)
She Walks in Beauty, Koppin (TTBB)
Music to be auditioned for Small Schools:
Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, Haydn, Gloria and Credo only
One Boy Told Me
Large school singers will complete their singing round first followed by sightreading. Sightreading may or may not be in the same room that you sang in the first time.
Small school singers will complete their singing round after the large school singing round is complete.
Registration Procedures: Each candidate will go to the table designated for their section in order to sign in and register. After all singers have registered and any needed alternates have been called students will receive their badges. The badge will indicate the singing order for the day. Students must verify the badge number by initialing the registration form. The numbers before the hyphen indicate the section and the numbers following the hyphen indicate the singing order (1=first through 20=last). You must wear your badge at all times. There will be a different number assigned for each of the two rounds, singing and sight-reading. Both numbers will be on the same badge. Badges do not stick well to hoodies. Be smart about where you put your badge and check on it frequently.
Audition procedure: Once registration is closed and badges have been distributed singers will receive a copy of the audition cuts. Singers will be taken to the audition rooms to sing through the cuts twice. After the rehearsal of the cuts, students may ask any questions they might have at that time. From this point on there can be no further rehearsal of the cuts in any manner. Students may study silently; however, anyone who sings or plays the cuts will risk disqualification. DIRECTORS SHOULD MAKE THIS CLEAR TO ALL STUDENTS. Students will then return to the cafeteria where their audition number will be called. Students must listen carefully to numbers called and follow instructions as they are led through the audition. Students are allowed to practice sight-reading and drills, etc., prior to their sight-reading audition.
Once a student’s number has been called he/she will be taken to the warm-up room where each student is allowed a five minute warm-up. Students may vocalize but the audition music may not be sung. After the warm-up period students are taken directly to their audition rooms. Students will
audition solo with recorded accompaniment in an order randomly determined by the computer
program.
After all students have finished the singing audition, the sight-reading audition round will begin.
Students will be given sight-reading instructions at that time. The warm-up room is not used prior to
sight-reading. Students walk directly from the holding room into the audition room.
Judging: A five-member judging panel will score each section. Judges will remain at the audition site
for the entire day and no changes will be made on any panel. Judges will use two separate judging
cards – one for the singing round and one for the sight-reading round.
Singing Round: Each cut in the singing round will be scored and given a total for that round. Judges
may not duplicate scores in this round. The panel chair will collect audition cards and paper clip them
in judge number order after each singer. Score cards will be turned in periodically throughout the
audition. The singing round counts for 80% of the total score.
Sight-reading Round: Students will sight-read a melody after a brief study period and judges will
assign a score. Scores may be duplicated in sight-reading. The sight-reading round counts for 20%
of the total score.
Lunch: A variety of food and drink items will be available for purchase at the concessions area in the
cafeteria for the students. Directors will be served in the audition rooms. Students may not leave
campus until the results have been read.
Large School Audition results: Of the twenty students auditioning on each part, singers ranking
#1-3 will be chosen as members of the Texas All-State Mixed Choir. The next two singers in each
section will be the 1st and 2nd alternates to the Mixed Choir respectively. Sopranos and altos ranked
#4-7 will be chosen as members of the Texas All-State Treble Choir. Sopranos and altos ranked 8
and 9 will be 1st and 2nd alternates, respectively, to the treble choir. Tenors and basses ranked #4-6
will be chosen as members of the Texas All-State Men’s Choir. Tenors and basses ranked 7 and 8 will
be 1st and 2nd alternates. The results will be announced at the end of the day.
Small School Audition results: Two singers from Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass parts will be
chosen as members of the Small School All-State Choir. There will be no alternates, however.
Meeting of All-State Members: After the results have been read, All-State Choir members and
their directors must pick-up an important information packet. At this time, a $20 CASH All-State
membership fee will be collected.
***PLEASE BRING EXACT CASH TO THIS AUDITION!!! ***
Checks will NOT be accepted.
For Directors
1. If it becomes necessary for a student to drop out of the auditions, his/her director should
contact the region chair immediately. As stated in the state vocal handbook, every director
and all assistants must be present at the audition in order for his/her students to
audition. If there is an emergency the director must contact me as soon as possible. If a
proxy is warranted, it must be pre-approved by me prior to the audition. Parents are NOT
allowed to serve as proxies.
2. Please be sure to check-out of your hotel the morning of the audition as you will not be able to
leave during the day to do so.
3. Lunch will be served for the judges in the audition room and students may purchase lunch.
Please bring your own snacks to the judging room. Also, please do not insult the
host or the students when they cannot accommodate your request or wishes. We’re
trying to curb area expenses. So please bring what you need: Starbucks, diet
drinks, etc.
4. Tabulations: Except for persons assigned to the tabulations room and region chairs, this area
is off-limits to everyone. We will get results to you as soon as possible at the completion of the
day.
5. Housing Information for Directors: Housing forms will be distributed to directors prior to
the announcement of the results. All housing arrangements must be completed BEFORE any
results will be read. Every room must have four students per room and directors will
enter housing information electronically on the TMEA website on Monday, January
15th and Tuesday, January 16th. Please be thinking ahead so that every student has a
room assignment.
6. There may be NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES AT THIS AUDITION!! This means: no iPads,
Apple Watches, cell phones, or laptops. Students will risk their right to audition should they be
found with one of these items. Please make sure that your students understand this PRIOR to
registering at this audition. Thank you for your help and understanding.
7. Students may not leave the campus for any reason until the results have been read.
8. Students cannot warm up once in the audition room.
9. There can be no contact between students and directors once the registration period has ended
in the morning until the results are read.
10. Directors will receive his/her student’s comment cards and area patches at the conclusion of
the audition.
11. Directors are to stay in the choir room until results are ready to be read to students. Please
do not enter the cafeteria until all directors are released from choir room. This will be a change
for some directors, but in order to maintain the integrity of the All-State Audition, we must
adhere to this guideline.
Sight reading is included in this round of auditions.
A voice says “You may now open the sight reading folder on your music stand.”
The tonic triad is then played once in broken chord style – D-M-S-M-D-S-D
The starting pitch is then played.
30 seconds of silence follows – during this time students should be practicing
the exercise
At the end of 30 seconds, the tonic is again played in broken chord style.
D-M-S-M-D-S-D
The starting pitch is then played.
There are no other instructions. Students are now judged on their pitch & rhythm
on the sight reading exercise.