Audition information

Position
Associate principal bass
Application deadline
June 3, 2013
Audition date
June 16, 2013
Weeks in season
40
Payment
$52,200 per year
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(Posted on May 3, 2013; last updated over 8 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
The first movement of one of the following concertos (orchestra tuning)
BottesiniBass Concerto No. 2
KoussevitzkyBass Concerto
VanhalBass Concerto (C or D major)
One of the following Bach movements (at pitch or transposed)
BachSuite No. 3 for cello
  • Allemande
  • Courante
  • Bourée
  • Gigue
Orchestral excerpts
BachOrchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Double
  • Badinerie
BeethovenSymphony No. 3
  • Mvt. III: 14–166 (no repeat)
BeethovenSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III
BeethovenSymphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: Recitative to 140
  • Mvt. IV: 431–525
BrahmsSymphony No. 2
  • Mvt. IV: 1–37
  • Mvt. IV: 244–279
BrittenThe Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation H
GinasteraVariaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI: 65 to 3 after 67
HaydnSymphony No. 31, “Horn Signal”
  • Mvt. IV: variation 7 solo
MahlerSymphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: 3 after 1 to 2 after 2
MendelssohnSymphony No. 4, “Italian”
  • Mvt. I: 41–90
  • Mvt. IV: 32–52
MozartSymphony No. 40
  • Mvt. I: 114–138
  • Mvt. I: 191–234
  • Mvt. IV: 49–70
  • Mvt. IV: 229–236
MussorgskyPictures at an Exhibition
  • Mvt. VI, “Samuel Goldenburg and Schmuÿle”: 56 to 4 after 57
ProkofievRomeo and Juliet Suite No. 2
  • Mvt. V: 5 before 50 to 8 after 50
SchubertSymphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III: 1 to the Trio
StraussEin Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to one after 11
  • 4041
  • 5170
  • 7778
StravinskyPulcinella Suite
  • Mvt. VII
Possible sight-reading
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