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1927 Melody Maker Aug. 742/2 The auditioner (or whatever he would be called officially)..turned out to be a large man entirely surrounded by typists.

1939 Hammond (Indiana) Times 17 Apr. 5/1 ‘The children's singing..is the finest piece of school singing heard’..Dr. Staton, chief choral auditioner..said.

1974 Notes 30 783/1 One of the requirements of many auditions..is that one aria be semi-staged in order to give the auditioners an idea of the dramatic capabilities of the young singer.

1998 S. Emmons & A. Thomas Power Performance for Singers xvi. 212 If the material requested by the auditioners does not represent you well, then perhaps you should wait for another occasion to audition.

1939 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 9 Dec. 23/4 Met. Auditioners to sing opera... Four young singers who won their spurs on NBC's Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air will be featured in the cast of ‘Boris Godunoff’.

1971 Contemp. Lit. 12 2 When Stanislavsky directed the Moscow Art Theater..auditioners were made to read the same sentence giving it fifty prescribed meanings.

1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Sept. 938/1 The auditioners are usually people who, as school actors, have made their contemporaries laugh.

2000 G. Santoro Myself when I am Real xiv. 343 Like auditioners for the Keystone Kops, the rest of the band tumbled out of the dining car and started running for the slowly disappearing Express.