Audition information

Position
Associate principal bass
Audition date
April 4–6, 2016
Weeks in season
16
Payment
$1,100 per week
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(Posted on February 3, 2016; last updated about 8 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
The first movement of a standard bass concerto of the candidate’s choice
Orchestral excerpts
BeethovenSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1–100
  • Mvt. III: 141–218
BeethovenSymphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: Recitative
  • Mvt. IV: 92–107
BrahmsSymphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: E to 6 before F
BrittenThe Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
MozartSymphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 13–21
  • Mvt. I: 14 before A to 1 after C
  • Mvt. IV: 27 after B to C
StraussEin Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 911
  • 4041
Solos
GinasteraVariaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI: solo
HaydnSymphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7 solo
MahlerSymphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: solo
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