Word: auditioner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given the Bresler-Duddy treatment, almost any fledgling songbird can be preened into a passable nightclub performer. Take the classic case of Bobbe (nee Barbara) Norris, 23. When she moved into a one-room apartment in Manhattan last year about the only experience she could boast was singing at high...
Yet another suitor, obviously an Adams House resident who wasn't allowed to move off either, took her offer more seriously. "Dorm life is hell," he agreed. "When are you available for an audition?"
In 1960 they made their first bid for a recording contract with Berry Gordy, the hiphazard impresario of Detroit's Motown* Record Co. "They seemed like just three skinny teen-age girls," he remembers. "I told them to go back to school." Back they went, but in her junior...
Yannatos felt that some participants had made poor choices of the pieces they played, but pointed out that the panel could only judge "on the basis of what was played at this audition." He said some of the musicians had been "irresponsible" by not preparing adequately, but stressed that "a...
Because participation in a production could be required of students in the new course, Seltzer said, an audition as well as an application would probably be necessary for admission.