Finally, Boulez puts the music to the Danse Sacrale from the Rite of Spring on the stand. Boulez asks me to start at rehearsal 186 and he begins to conduct- about two feet away from me!
That was unnerving but I kept my cool and didn’t miss anything. That was the end of a very long, very challenging audition. The “bomb scare”? That was just a ticking metronome in a cardboard box! The results of the audition? We found those out two days later.
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