| What a great question!
It would be very easy to just say "Ah, just play it and pretend you're sitting in an orchestra".
Well, which orchestra? Which conductor? Which Hall?
I think your audition performance has to be just that, a performance. However, the portamento I do in a stage setting during Mahler 5 would be different from the one I'd do in an audition. An audition of excerpts is missing the thing that concerts have: context.
Lacking that context, you have to be judicious about how much you want to juice a given passage. You must be intelligent, tasteful, passionate when you play but you can't be pedantic, over-sensitive, and uncontrolled.
Wait until you get tenure for that.
Kidding!
Learn to dance on the line of interpretation so that you can separate daring from recklessness.
Hey... I'm going to change my signature quote as a result of this exchange.
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