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All interested members of the classes of 2016 and 2017 are welcome (and encouraged) to audition for R20. Stop back here in the fall for more information!
Auditions take place in our room, 071 Bloomberg.
The Roaring 20 audition is quite painless and only takes about 15 minutes.
We begin the audition by introducing you to the group and getting to know a little bit about you - where you're from, where you live, etc.
Then our Music Director, [Torin]({{ site.github.url }}/members/torin), will guide you through some 5-tone scales to warm you up and test your range (though we definitely recommend warming up a bit on your own before the audition).
The next component of the audition is swells. Swells will help us get an idea of your volume and control. First, Torin will play the pitch we want to hear you swell on. Then you will start by singing as soft as you possibly can, gradually crescendo to your loudest possible volume, and decrescendo back to where you started. It doesn't matter how long you hold the note for - we're mostly just interested in hearing dynamic contrast.
Next comes pitch matching. Torin will play a few sets of 3 or 4 notes on the piano and have you sing them back to the group. Try to sing them as accurately as you can - if you need to hear the notes played multiple times, that's completely fine.
Now we get to the fun part: the solo. You can perform for us any solo from any genre of music. We recommend choosing a song that you're comfortable with and that demonstrates your vocal strengths. Just to give you some ideas, solos used by current members include: Someone to Watch Over Me, I Just Can't Wait to be King, Heartless, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Walking in Memphis, and more.
In the final portion of the audition, the group will join you for a blending exercise. Singers on your voice part will surround you, and we will sing through a short phrase in 4-part harmony. You will have a copy of the music to look at it if it helps you, but we are not testing your sight-reading abilities. After hearing it as many times as you need, you will join in on your part to give us an idea of how your voice fits in with the rest of the group.
And then you're done! A member of Roaring 20 will come by your room later that night to let you know if we have decided to call you back.
If you have any questions, contact us at roaring@princeton.edu.