The Few

We are just a few days away from quartet auditions for All State choir and I was thinking back to the practice we had last weekend. Our director told us that he would hold part separated rehearsals to help us prepare for the audition. I was excited because I needed some help since I only get to be in Concert Choir every other day. My school is loaded with talented singers. It is difficult for even the most talented people to stand out. But we only ever get about five people into All State every year. Being that that is the case, I figured that loads of people would take advantage of a great opportunity like this but that was nowhere near true. In all, we had eight people, four sopranos, two tenors, two basses, and no altos.
This thought was originally surprising and I wondered if this why we don't get more people into All State. Have we become over confident about our abilities so much that we don't think we need practice? There was an ACT test that day during the time of the practices so that could have been the reason that there were so few. But a comment in class yesterday made me question us even more. My teacher said that he would easily be able to chose the top seven from the lower three parts because there were only a few more and in some cases less than seven auditioning. That was a shock to me because I had always heard that All State was super competitive, even at our school, and figured I might not even make it. I am exstatic that I will most likely get to audition but a bit worried. I think we only have one returning All Stater and I have faith he will make it again but will anyone else. There is a talented group auditioning and I believe that someone will make it but who knows. I can only guess why some people arn't auditioning.