A Parents’ Guide to Conservatory Auditions is published on the international music site, Violinist.com. The series cover issues of interest to anyone auditioning artist or parent of an artist. Other Violinist.com parenting columns can be located below.
Index of Violinist.com Parenting Columns
- 1. The Great Decision
- 2. Talent Education
- 3. The Violin Addiction
- 4. The Cicadas
- 5. Getting’ There
- 6. The Clock on the Table
- 7. Hell is Other Parents
- 8. The Late-Blooming Flower
- 9. But I Played it Perfectly At Home
- 10. In The Bleak Midwinter
- 11. A Tale of Two Quartets
- 12. The Birth-Order Theory
- 13. On Thinking About Polar Bears
- 14. Talking About Talking Practice
- 15. The Bow
- 16. Chromesthesia
- 17. Joyce DiDonato: Four Truths for Young Artists
- 18. Summer Music Camps
- 19. Do What Scares You
- 20. Are Summer Programs Worth It?
- 21. Thinking About Elephants (Ivory)
- 22. Bad Behavior
- 23. Contractor or Collaborator?
- 24. Busking for Life
- 25. Poor Yorick and the Viola
- 26. When School Makes Life Impossible
- 27. Tweeting Beethoven
- 28. When Pigs Fly…But Musical Instruments Don’t
- 29. Ban iPads, Not kids, From the Concert Hall
A Parents' Guide to Conservatory Auditions
- Part 1: Take Your Vitamins 0
- Part 10: Good at Being Uncomfortable 0
- Part 11: Winter, Audition-Style 0
- Part 12: Flying Solo 0
- Part 13: Luck 0
- Part 2: Strategies 0
- Part 3: Trial Lessons 0
- Part 4: Rejection 0
- Part 5: Reach, Match, Safety 0
- Part 6: Other Parents 0
- Part 7: Location, Location, Location 0
- Part 8: I Flunked My Prescreens: Now What?! 0
- Part 9: Talent Loves Company 0
Other RileSmith Sites
- Binocular (Poem) 0
- CaeliSmith.com Caeli Smith, violinist 0
- MadHotGlass Madeline Rile Smith, glass artist 0
- PascaleSmith.com Pascale Smith, actor, playwright, singer/songwriter 0
- RileSmith Arts Blog 0
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Selected Publications
- 30 Days of Poems 0
- 30 Days of Poems, 2016 0
- A Conversation with William Parberry 0
- A Fresh Approach To Food 0
- A Late Quartet (review) 0
- A Story-Winning Prize 0
- Adjusting the Focus (Cold Mountain Opera) 0
- Afictionados: The Fiction-Lover’s Shopping List 0
- Are you a Contractor or Collaborator? 0
- Art Sustains An Elkins Park Jewel 0
- Binocular (Poem) 0
- Brave New Voices 0
- Choose Your Own Ending 0
- Coming Full Circle 0
- Do What Scares You 0
- Harmonic Convergence Ted Cheek: A musical polymath brings out the best in Penn’s Chinese Musical Society. 0
- Hitchcock (review) 0
- I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart 0
- Joyce DiDonato: Four Truths for Young Artists Joyce DiDonato: Four Truths for Young Artists 0
- June in November 0
- Material World 0
- Mentorship Essay Philadelphia Inquirer, October 2012 0
- Mimi Stillman Profile 0
- Music Lessons Part I: The Pokémon Kid 0
- Never Mind Talent: Practice 0
- No Ear for Languages 0
- No Ear for Languages Short fiction from Bosque Magazine 0
- On Luck 0
- Parents Weekend 0
- Philadelphia Couple With Spider Sense Takes Web Design to New Heights 0
- Poetry in Superstition Review 0
- Poor Yorick and the Viola 0
- Talking About Guns 0
- The Card in the Age of Digital Reproduction 0
- The Critical Circus 0
- The Fiction Writer's Shopping List 0
- The Other Fathers 0
- The Outsider Who Wouldn't Take NO 0
- The Point of View Character 0
- The Sisterhood of the Disappearing Crones 0
- Thinking About Elephants 0
- Trump Shocks Winter Sports Community with Updates to Olympic Biathlon Rules 0
- Urban Soundscapes 0