2019 SENIOR AUDITIONS INFORMATION

2019 SENIOR AUDITIONS INFORMATION Tuesday, October 1st, 2019

CARL SANDBURG HIGH SCHOOL

13300 S. LaGrange Road

Orland Park, IL 60462

DIRECTIONS (Suggested routes)

From the Northeast: Take I-55 South. Exit at 96 th Street/LaGrange Road/Route 45 and head south. Turn right onto 131 st Street. The school is on the south side of 131 st Street. From the Northwest: Take I-355 South. Exit at Archer Avenue and head east. Turn right onto 131 st Street. The school is on the south side of 131 st Street. From the Southeast: Take I-57 North. Exit at I-80 West. Take the exit at Harlem going north. Turn left onto 135 th street. Turn right onto LaGrange Rd, then turn left onto 131 st Street .The school is on the south side of 131 st Street. From the East : Take 127th street or 135 th street west to LaGrange Road/Route 45. From 127 th

Street, turn left onto LaGrange Road/Route 45 and then turn right onto 131 st Street. The school is on the south side of 131 st Street. From 135 th Street, turn right onto LaGrange Road and then turn left onto 131 st Street. The school is on the south side of 131 st Street.

From the West: Take 143rd street or 159 th street East. Turn left onto LaGrange Rd, then turn left onto 131 st Street .You could take 13st street East. The school is on the south side of 131 st street. The school is on the south side of 131 st Street.

DROP-OFF & PARKING INSTRUCTIONS All schools should unload buses at Door Entrance W8 on the west side of the building. Buses should park at Our Lady of the Woods Church (10731 West 131 st St. Orland Park) or at another remote location. Buses cannot park in the west parking lot due to lack of space. All cars should also unload at Door Entrance W8 . Please contact the site coordinator if any of your students need special accommodations when entering the building. Directors and visitors with cars may park in the west lot, which is the parking lot that you will enter off 131 st Street. Please refer to the map, which is included at the end of this packet for further clarification.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT! PLEASE DO NOT PLAN TO ARRIVE BEFORE 3:20PM!

Our school buses, parents and student body will be exiting the building and traffic will be extremely congested. If groups arrive early, they will be asked to leave and come back at 3:20pm. Also, please do not enter through the school entrance off LaGrange Road. Schools will not be allowed to enter through any door other than Door Entrance W8.

WARM-UP/HOMEROOM/CONCESSIONS Schools will need to check-in once they arrive at the ILMEA HQ upstairs in the Media Center. This is where directors/schools will receive their student tags. There will be an information table for questions on directions and room assignments located in the commons area. There will be parent and student volunteers dressed in Sandburg Blue t-shirts who can point you in the right direction and provide you with any additional information. Colored posters will also be displayed throughout the building to help guide students and directors to their proper audition and warm-up rooms. If there are any problems or other questions, please go directly to the ILMEA Headquarters upstairs in the Media Center . ILMEA Headquarters: The ILMEA Headquarters will be located in the Library (E240) on the second floor above the Commons. Homeroom: All schools will use the Commons area as their homeroom. This is where cases and coats can be stored. Please do not allow your students to warm-up in this area . Directors

are welcome to find a table or part of a table to designate as their school’s area. Please remind your students that there will be over 2,000 people going in and out of the Commons. Carl Sandburg High School cannot be held responsible for lost or stolen items. Please make sure your students do not use the commons as their warm-up area. Warm-up Areas : Vocal warm-ups are in rooms C101 and C103, unfortunately there will not be access to pianos in this area. Instrumental warm-ups are in the East Gym. Please do not allow your students to play/sing in the hallways or stairwells. String Tuning Rooms : Room C202 & C204 has been reserved as a tuning room for all violinists and violists. Please do not allow your students to use these rooms for anything other than tuning. Double bass and cello students will have to tune in their warm-up room, the dance studio near E119. Hallway Noise : It is imperative that noise in the hallway be kept to an absolute minimum. We want to provide a quality audition environment for each student participating. Our parent and student volunteers have been asked to assist in keeping the hallway noise to a minimum. Students practicing in the hallways will be directed to the designated warm-up areas. Concessions: The Sandburg Music Boosters will be providing food and drinks throughout the evening. A variety of snacks, desserts, drinks, pizza, and sandwiches will be available. Please encourage your students to take advantage of the concessions located in the Commons.

INSTRUMENTS THAT WILL BE PROVIDED Carl Sandburg will be providing timpani, snare drum, keyboard percussion, tambourine, cymbals, drum set with cymbals, bass amp, guitar amp, vibes and piano. Schools are welcome to bring their own equipment if they prefer. Students should bring their own drumsticks and mallets to the audition. *Jazz Guitar and Jazz Instrumental Bass: Please bring a patch cord to the audition.

PICK-UP AREA

We encourage directors to have the cell phone number of their bus driver before unloading their buses. Directors should contact drivers when their group is done for the evening so buses can drive back to Sandburg and pick up their students at Door Entrance W8 .

***SPECIAL NOTE TO ALL DIRECTORS*** Please make sure that you have all of your students before you leave Carl Sandburg High School. Unfortunately, students have been left behind in past years. Please remember to double check your students before you leave. Questions or comments? For orchestra, please contact Dr. Linda Nussbaum, [email protected], or 708-671-3839 For choir or vocal jazz , call or e-mail Nicki Denofrio, [email protected] or 708-671-3528. For band or instrumental jazz , call or email Stewart Bailey, [email protected] or Brian Hillhouse, [email protected] , 708-671-3831.

We look forward to seeing all of you on Tuesday, October 1st at auditions!

2019 ILMEA Band Audition Rooms Concert Band Flute/Piccolo S204 - Lyrical Etude

S205 - Technical Etude

S206 - Sight-Reading

S207 - Scales

Oboe & English Horn S219 - Lyrical & Technical Etudes

S221 - Sight-Reading & Scales

Basson & Contrabassoon S223 - Full Audition

Eb and Bb Clarinet S210 - Lyrical Etude



S213 - Scales

Low Clarinet S215 - Full Audition

Alto Saxophone S237 - Lyrical Etude



S241 - Scales

Tenor & Baritone Saxophone S248 - Lyrical Etude



S242 - Scales

Jazz Band S233 - Jazz Alto

S229 - Jazz Low Sax

S098 - Jazz Trumpet

S099 - Jazz Trombone

Trumpet S141 - Lyrical Etude-NEW THIS YEAR

S142 - Technical Etude -NEW THIS YEAR

S143 - Sight-Reading-NEW THIS YEAR

S144 - Scales-NEW THIS YEAR

French Horn E104 - Lyrical Etude

E106 - Technical Etude

E108 - Sight-Reading

E110 - Scales

Trombone & Bass Trombone S166 - Lyrical Etude



S156 - Scales

Euphonium & Tuba S225 - Lyrical Etude-NEW THIS YEAR

S227 - Technical Etude-NEW THIS YEAR

S231 - Sight-Reading-NEW THIS YEAR

S235 - Scales-NEW THIS YEAR

Percussion S119 - Snare Drum

S121 - Mallets

S123 - Auxiliary

S125 - Timpani

Piano C102 - Full Audition* (room pending schedule)

C102 - Jazz Piano/Vibes

S162 - Jazz Guitar -NEW THIS YEAR

S163 - Jazz Bass-NEW THIS YEAR

S151 - Jazz Drums

2019 ILMEA Senior Chorus Audition Rooms Soprano I N114 - Tonal Skills

N108 - Sight Reading

N106 - Selection 1

N116 - Selection 2

Soprano II N118 - Tonal Skills


N120 - Selection 1

N122 - Selection 2

Bass I N206 - Tonal Skills


N204 - Selection 1

N208 - Selection 2

Bass II N212 - Tonal Skills


N214 - Selection 1

N210 - Selection 2

Alto I N103 - Tonal Skills


N101 - Selection 1

N105 - Selection 2

Alto II N111 - Tonal Skills


N113 - Selection 1

N109 - Selection 2

Tenor I N203 - Tonal Skills


N223 - Selection 1

N201 - Selection 2

Tenor II N209 - Tonal Skills


N207 - Selection 1

N211 - Selection 2

2019 ILMEA Vocal Jazz Ensemble Audition Rooms Excerpt Rooms

E215 - Soprano

E217 - Alto

E223 - Tenor

E225 - Bass

Tonal Skills/Scales, Improvisation

E206 - ALL Tonal Skills/Scales

E208 - ALL Improvisation Scat

2019 ILMEA Orchestra Audition Rooms

Violin

C206 - Violin Excerpt 1

C207 - Violin Excerpt 2

C208 - Violin State Excerpt

C209 - Scales & Sight Reading

Viola

C210 - Viola Excerpts

C211 - Viola Scales & Sight Reading

Cello/Bass/Harp

E111 - Cello Excerpts

E113 - Cello Scales & Sight Reading

E119 - Bass/Harp Full Audition

2019 ILMEA Warm-up / Admin Warm-up Areas East Gym - Instrumental Warm-up

C101 - Vocal Warm-up A (no piano)

C103 - Vocal Warm-up B (no piano)

C202/C204 - Violin and Viola Tuning Room

Dance Studio (near E119) - Cello/Bass/Harp

Tuning Room-NEW THIS YEAR

Commons - Homeroom/Concessions

ILMEA Headquarters E240 (Media Center/Library)

Documents

2019 SENIOR AUDITIONS INFORMATION