By Darla Shelden, Metropolis Sentinel Reporter —
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Metropolis College’s music and theatre packages will return to in-person, on-campus auditions for potential college students seeking to start college within the fall semester.
Some undergraduate packages within the Wanda L. Bass College of Music and the College of Theatre are reinstating dwell auditions and interviews because of the enhancing COVID-19 circumstances on campus and within the surrounding neighborhood. There can even be up to date facemask steerage for vaccinated people from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
Potential college students nonetheless have the choice of submitting recorded video auditions or to audition nearly by way of the Acceptd platform.
“Together with the remainder of the performing arts business, we’re excited to return to a few of our extra conventional practices, together with dwell, in-person auditioning,” mentioned Mark Parker, Dean of OCU Music and Theatre.
Music undergrad packages in instrumental efficiency will provide in-person audition choices, whereas vocal packages nonetheless require auditions by way of Acceptd. Some theatre undergrad packages are accepting in-person interviews or auditions, relying on this system.
The Bass College of Music levels greater than 250 occasions all through the tutorial yr, starting from solo recitals to full-scale choral and orchestral works, in addition to six opera and music theater productions.
Alumni have been acknowledged with Grammy, Emmy and Tony awards and have carried out world-wide with main symphony orchestras and navy bands.
Alumni excellence in instructing has been celebrated with dozens of awards, together with two latest Oklahoma state instructor of the yr honorees.
The College of Theatre, lately among the many fastest-growing packages within the nation, options quite a few efficiency alternatives every year for college kids, together with a four-show mainstage season, a number of Stage II productions emphasizing appearing and directing, and the Out of the Field experimental theatre firm.
The College of Theatre additionally companions with skilled firms within the Oklahoma Metropolis space.
For extra details about Bass College of Music admissions and the audition course of, go to okcu.edu/music/admissions. For the College of Theatre, go to okcu.edu/theatre/admissions.
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