Boston Symphony Audition Excerpts


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Posted by Rick Denney on February 15, 2001 at 15:14:17:

For those who are curious, I pulled this from the BSO web page.

TUBA



Resumes due on or before: February 1, 2001

Preliminary Audition: April 2, 2001

Final Audition: April 23, 2001



AUDITION REPERTOIRE

Preliminaries/Semi-finals/Finals



I. Solos (need not be memorized)

Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 (c minor) - Sarabande

Vaughn Williams: Tuba Concerto - mvmts I & II



II. Orchestra Passages

Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture - 16 to 5 after 19

Berlioz: Symphonie Fanastique - mvmts IV & V (tuba I)

Gershwin: An American in Paris - 4 after 67 to 68

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 - mvmt III: 4 before 3 to 4

Mahler: Symphony No. 2 - mvmt V: 10 to 11

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 - mvmt I: 3 to 6

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - 1 after 62 to 2 after 65

Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie - 2 after 25 to 26 ; 145 to end (tuba I)

Stravinsky: Petroushka (1911) - 3 after 100 to 4 after 101 ; 121 to 122

Wagner: Die Meistersinger - Act I Prelude: J to L

Wagner: Die Walküre - Act III Ride of the Walküre (B major): mm 125 to 142



III. Orchestra Passages With Section

(Those candidates in the final round may be asked to play these passages with BSO members as part of the audition.)

Brahms: Ein Deutches Requiem - mvmt II: 11 after L to M

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 - mvmt IV: O to end

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 - mvmt IV: mm 1 to 40

Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis - mvmt II: 4 after L to 2 after P

Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 - mvmt II: 6 after O to 4 before Q; 13 after CC to FF

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 - mvmt III, mvmt IV: L to M



IV. Sight Reading




Rick "stuck on Line 1" Denney


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