Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra horn audition

Audition information
Position
Second horn
Application deadline
November 20, 2015
Audition date
February 22–23, 2016
Weeks in season
35
Payment
$1,087.36 per week
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(Posted on October 5, 2015; last updated almost 9 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One of the following concerto movements
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Mozart—Horn Concerto No. 4, K. 495
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Second horn excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 171–205
  • Mvt. IV: 305–309
  • Mvt. IV: 437–463
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 84–110
  • Mvt. III: 185–238
Beethoven—Fidelio
  • Overture: 136–151
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5: 257–263
  • Variation 6
Haydn—Symphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. II: 35–38
  • Mvt. IV: 73–90
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 4 after 13 to 15
Mahler—Symphony No. 9
  • Mvt. I: 4–2
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 9 after L to M
  • Scherzo: 3 before N to O
Mozart—Symphony No. 29
  • Mvt. IV: 166–end
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 3 after 17 to 1 after 21
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 4 after 3 to 2 after 5
  • 1 after 96 to 98
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 5 after 19 to 20
  • 4 before 53 to 53
  • 57 to 3 after 62
Strauss—An Alpine Symphony
  • 21–22
  • 63–66
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 6 after A
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. IV: 9 after A to 5 before C
Fourth horn excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. III: 82–99
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Variation 5: 3 before 48 to 1 after 48
Eighth horn excerpt
Wagner—Das Rheingold
  • Overture: 25–53
Possible sight-reading
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