Tucson Symphony Orchestra percussion audition

Audition information
Position
Principal timpani percussion
Application deadline
August 29, 2016
Audition date
September 19, 2016
Payment
$20,004.94 per year
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(Posted on July 12, 2016; last updated over 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
A solo or etude of the candidate’s choice
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 358–395
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. II: F–H
  • Mvt. IV: 1–25
  • Mvt. IV: T–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 1–9
  • Mvt. I: 495–end
  • Mvt. IV: 77–99
  • Mvt. IV: 375–end
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. I: 5 after 8 to 9
  • Mvt. I: 14–end
  • Mvt. III: 44–46
  • Mvt. III: 63–end
Hindemith—Symphonic Metamorphosis
  • Mvt. II: S–T
  • Mvt. II: V–X
  • Mvt. II: Y–end
Holst—The Planets
  • Mars
  • Jupiter
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 11–16
  • Mvt. I: 18–21
  • Mvt. I: 26–end
  • Mvt. III: 39–40
  • Mvt. III: 50–51
  • Mvt. V: 1–4
  • Mvt. V: 4 before 7 to 7
Mozart—The Magic Flute
  • Overture: D–end
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: opening adagio
Schuman—New England Triptych
  • Mvt. I: 1–15
  • Mvt. I: 110–155
Strauss—An Alpine Symphony
  • 27–30
  • 85 to 4 before 88
  • 1 before 119 to 5 after 122
Strauss—Burleske
  • 1–A
  • 6 after L for 16 bars
  • Ff to 3 after Gg
Strauss—Death and Transfiguration
  • 6–A
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 5 before A to 5 after A
  • 7 before G to 3 after G
  • U–W
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 134–161
  • Mvt. I: 313–363
  • Mvt. III: 170–210
  • Mvt. IV: 30–59
  • Mvt. IV: 249–end
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