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Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra
Robin Fountain, Music Director
2014-2015 Season - Audition List
**AUGUST 7, 2014**
NOTE CHANGES TO BARTOK CONCERTO EXCERPTS POSTED TO UTILITY OBOE REPERTOIRE LIST
NOTE ADDITIONS TO THIRD TRUMPET REPERTOIRE LIST
GENERAL:
Excerpts will be chosen from the following list for your instrument.
All solos to be performed without accompaniment.
Sight-reading may be requested.
SECTION VIOLIN – all positions play first violin parts
SOLO OF CHOICE
Schumann
Symphony No. 2
Brahms
Symphony No. 1
Mozart
Symphony No. 39
Strauss
Don Juan
SECTION CELLO:
SOLO OF CHOICE
Beethoven
Beethoven
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4
Mozart
Symphony No. 35
Scherzo
Mvt. I, 1st page
Mvt. IV, mm. 1-41
Beginning to letter D
Mvt. III, trio
Mvt. II, beginning to fermata after C
Mvt. III, beginning to 15 mm. after A
Mvt. III, double bar to 16 mm. after B
Mvt. I, mm. 27-36, 17 after E to F, H to I
Mvt. II, mm. 21-42
Mvt. IV, 135-end
UTILITY OBOE *** PLEASE NOTE CHANGES TO BARTOK CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA EXCERPTS*** REVISED 8/7/14
SOLO: Mozart Oboe Concerto, 1st mvt exposition
OBOE EXCERPTS
Bach
Bartok
Cantata #82 “Ich Habe Genug”
Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven
Brahms
Brahms
Mendelssohn
Ravel
Rossini
Strauss
Tchaikovsky
Symphony #3
Violin Concerto
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Symphony #3
Le Tombeau de Couperin
La Scala di Seta Overture
Don Juan
Symphony #4
Beginning – m 35
Mvt. II complete (SECOND OBOE PART)
Mvt. IV beginning - m 75 (FIRST OBOE PART)
2nd mvt., 8-47
2nd mvt., mm 3-13
Theme (SECOND OBOE PART)
2nd mvt., mm 33-101
Prelude - beginning- reh 2 (oboe 1)
Andantino, beginning-m 13; Allegro, beginning –m 17
Opening- B; L – N
Andantino, mm 1-21
3 Cornered Hat
New World Symphony
Roman Carnival Overture
William Tell Overture
Miller’s Dance cadenza
Mvt. II beginning- reh 1
mm 21- 7 before reh 2
20 mm before F-18 before H
ENGLISH HORN EXCERPTS
De Falla
Dvorak
Berlioz
Rossini
3rd HORN (LIST CONTAINS BOTH HIGH AND LOW EXCERPTS):
SOLO OF CHOICE
Shostakovich
Symphony #5
Brahms
Piano Concert #2
Saint-Saens
Symphony #3
Beethoven
Symphony #3
Beethoven
Symphony #8
Strauss
Till Eulenspiegel
Ravel
Wagner
THIRD TRUMPET EXCERPTS
SOLO OF CHOICE
Mahler
Ravel
Strauss
Mussorgsky
Pavane for a Dead Princess
Siegfried
mvt I, low tutti section (1st horn part)
mvt I, 3rd horn solo mm #188-200
mvt 1 3rd horn slow solo Poco adagio, Letter Q-R
mvt III Trio-mm #171-111 (2nd horn part)
mvt III, mm 45-end of movement (2nd horn part)
3rd Horn Solo and the following tutti w/1st horn ending on high C – 13
measures before 29 -30 (3rd horn part only)
Opening solo (1st horn part)
“Short Call” 8 bars after #30- beat 1 of Allegro (1st horn part)
Symphony No. 5
Piano Concerto
Don Juan
Pictures at an Exhibition
Opening
Mvt. I
solos
1st Promenade, beg. To #2
Handel
Messiah (Trumpet Shall Sound)
beginning to letter A
**THE FOLLOWING TWO EXCERPTS HAVE BEEN ADDED AS OF AUGUST 7, 2014**
Respighi
Pines of Rome
Offstage Solo
Stravinsky
Petrouchka
Ballerina’s Dance, 1 mm before 134-139