Akron Symphony Orchestra percussion audition

Audition information
Position
Principal percussion
Audition date
October 26, 2015
Payment
$127.15 per service
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(Posted on August 13, 2015; last updated over 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
A transcription of any Bach work for two or four mallets on marimba
Any advanced Delecluse etude on snare drum
Any xylophone rag by George Green, Billy Dorn, Harry Breuer, or Joe Green
Xylophone excerpts
Copland—Appalachian Spring
  • 5 after 48 to 3 after 49
Copland—Billy the Kid
  • 3 after 10 for 11 measures
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 4 to 4 after 4
  • 6 to 4 after 6
  • 4 after 20 to 11 after 20
Gershwin—Porgy and Bess
  • Overture: 1 to 4 before B
Shostakovich—The Golden Age
  • Polka: 6–A
Bells excerpts
Dukas—The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • 4 after 17 to 3 after 19
  • 22–24
  • 26 to 9 after 26
  • 6 after 52 to 53
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 21 after 2
  • Mvt. I: 8 before 8 to the end
Wagner—Siegfried
  • Forest murmurs: 9/8 to “Lebhaft”
Snare drum excerpts
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé
  • The Birth of Kijé: 1–2
  • Mvt. I: 13–end
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. III: beginning–H
  • Mvt. IV: Beginning to 10 after L
  • Mvt. V: 4 before Z to Presto
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III: D–E
  • Mvt. III: G–H
  • Mvt. III: 5 after H to I
  • Mvt. III: last four bars
  • Mvt. IV: 1 before C to 4 before F
  • Mvt. IV: 4 before N to 18 after N
  • Mvt. IV: P–R
  • Mvt. IV: S–U
Bass drum excerpts
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 5 after 1 to 3
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • Danse de la terre: 72 to the end
  • 190–end
Cymbals excerpts
Rachmaninoff—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. III: 32 to 13 after 32
Tchaikovsky—Romeo and Juliet
  • 2 before O to 7 before P
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 15 after H to the end
Triangle excerpts
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: 1 before C for 16 measures
  • Mvt. III: 6 after D for 17 measures
  • Mvt. III: 5 before G to G
  • Mvt. III: I to 5 before K
Tambourine excerpts
Bizet—Carmen Suite No. 1
  • Aragonaise
Bizet—Carmen Suite No. 2
  • Danse Bohème: 3 before D to 3 before F
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • Trepak
On drum set, a demonstration of various styles: swing, show style, ballad, bossa nova, samba, brushes
Possible sight-reading
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