Orchestra Participation
Important Notes:
Ages: 14-graduated senior in 2012
Location: Trollwood Performing Arts School
Meetings/Events: Be sure to attend the Legally Blonde The Musical Student and Parent Kick Off Meeting on Thursday, May 31, 7:00 pm, Trollwood Performing Arts School. Scripts and scores will be distributed, designs unveiled, and schedules discussed.
Orientation: Tuesday, June 5, 9:00 am-12:00 pm. All students registered for Mainstage Musical will meet at 1:00 pm on June 85 in the Marcil Commons for a team building project. Trollwood at Bluestem Center for the Arts. Attendance is REQUIRED!
Rehearsals/Performances: Orchestra rehearsals are June 4-29, 4:20-9:00 pm, Monday-Friday, Trollwood Performing Arts School.
Saturdays and Sundays during June are free time. More rehearsal time may be scheduled as necessary.
Daily evening rehearsals with the cast begin Monday, July 2, Trollwood Performing Arts School.
Conflicts must be submittted at audition. It is possilbe to miss limited reharsals and still perform for shows at the director’s discretion.
Tech Week: Daily evening rehearsals, July 5-12
Strike: Orchestra members are required to attend strike, July 30-August 2.
Production Party: August 2.
Prerequisite: By audition.
Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 23. Registration remains open after this deadline. However, a $25 late fee will be assessed.
Being in the Trollwood Mainstage Orchestra offers many benefits!
Top Reasons to Join the Orchestra…
Meet new friends from all around the region as you rehearse and perform the musical accompaniment to Legally Blonde The Musical
Improve your skills as a musician
Learn how to perform in a musical style you may not get to experience otherwise
Connect with the region’s finest musicians
Demonstrates your commitment to music/performance for post-secondary education recruiters
Master Classes with professional musicians—give you an opportunity for association and advanced teaching not readily available to high school students
Best of all—it’s FUN!
As an orchestra member at Trollwood you will work hard to provide the musical framework that creates a really great musical show, but you’ll also make life-time friends and memories while you laugh and play (as in ‘have fun!’), and create wonderful music!
Our evening rehearsal schedule allows you to have a day job, take summer school or other Trollwood classes, or just hang out with friends, so you CAN “have it all” this summer!
Audition Information
Sign up for an audition session by contacting Trollwood at 218.477.6500. All auditions are in the Fargo North High School Orchestra Room 19th Ave N and Broadway, Fargo; (park on the north side, by the theatre). If you are unable to attend these auditions, you may audition by cassette tape or CD.
Orchestra Audition Sessions You must reserve a specific audition time slot. Auditions are scheduled to last 10 minutes each.
Thursday, February 16, 4:15-6:00 pm
Saturday, February 18, 1:00-5:00 pm
Sunday, February 19, 1:00-3:00 pm
Wednesday, February 29, 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Thursday, March 1, 4:00-6:00 pm
And by individual appointment. Legally Blonde The Musical orchestration calls for the following instruments:3 keyboards, electric guitar, electric bass, percussion, drums, alto sax, tenor sax, bari sax, flute/piccolo, clarinet, bass clarinet, trombones, trumpets, and violin. Other instruments are welcome to audition and parts will be adapted for their use.
If Auditioning by CD: CD’s must be received in the Trollwood Office by Thursday, March 1 to be considered. If you would like your tape or CD returned, please enclose a pre-stamped and addressed padded envelope.
Requirements: Please label the CD with the auditioner’s name. Accompany your CD with a brief written profile, including name, address, phone, current age and grade, school, music teacher’s name and audition instrument.
Include the following on your CD: Begin with an introduction of yourself: name, age and grade, information about you and your personal experiences. Please record a solo selection and scales as specified in Audition Requirements.
Audition Requirements
The goal of the audition is to determine your training level and ability to master the music in the allotted rehearsal time. The audition will be performed for the orchestra conductor and may be taped for later reference.
Each audition will consist of three parts:
- Solo: any selection of your choice from 45 seconds to 1 minute in length. Choose something that shows your playing at its best. It can be part of a solo, etude or ensemble, and may be band or orchestra music.
- Sight Reading: This will be relatively short and will likely contain a key change and a time change. Practice counting and playing music at sight to prepare.
- Scales: are specified by instrument as follows: Be prepared to play all scales in two ways: as quarter notes (60 on metronome) and as eighth notes (quarter note = 120 on metronome).
- Woodwinds (Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Oboe and Bassoon): 2 octave Major scale of your choice; 2 octave Minor scale of your choice; and a Chromatic scale of your entire range.
- Brass (Horn, Trumpet, Trombone and Tuba): 1 or 2 octave Major scale of your choice; 1 octave Minor scale of your choice; and a Chromatic scale of your entire range.
- Guitar (Acoustic, Electric and Electric Bass): 2 short solo selections of different styles, one must be jazz, the other of your choosing. Note: You must be able to read music.
- Strings: 2 or 3 octave Major scale of your choice; 2 octave Minor scale of your choice.
- Keyboards: 2 short solo selections of different styles, one must be jazz, the other of your choosing.
- Percussion: Both sight reading and solo performances on the same two of the following instruments: mallets, snares, drum set or timpani.