Omaha Symphony Orchestra percussion audition


Audition information

Position
Principal percussion
Application deadline
March 1, 2017
Audition date
May 16–17, 2017
Weeks in season
38
Payment
$41,606.64 per year
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(Posted on January 8, 2017; last updated about 7 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
Orchestral excerpts
BarberMedea’s Dance of Vengeance
  • 2832
BartókConcerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. IV: 42–50
  • Mvt. V: 550–572
BartókMusic for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Mvt. II: 301–338
  • Mvt. II: 372–394
  • Mvt. IV: 26–53
BartókPiano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 95–109
  • Mvt. II: 22–29
  • Final section: 20–31
BeethovenSymphony No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 81–93
  • Mvt. III: 1 before A to the end of the Menuetto section
  • Mvt. III: 124 to the end of the Trio section
BeethovenSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 324 to Mvt. IV: 395
BeethovenSymphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 89–110
  • Mvt. I: 315–326
  • Mvt. I: 421–end
BeethovenSymphony No. 8
  • Mvt. IV: 450–end
BeethovenSymphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. I: 16–35
  • Mvt. I: 297–339
  • Mvt. I: 513–end
  • Mvt. II: 248–296
BerliozSymphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV, second timpani part: 1–17
BernsteinCandide
  • Overture: 189–end
BrahmsSymphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 1–29
  • Mvt. IV: 387–end
BrahmsSymphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: 1–17
ElgarEnigma Variations
  • Variation VII, “Troyte”
HindemithSymphonic Metamorphosis
  • Mvt. II: 5 after S to 1 before T
  • Mvt. II: 5 after V to 8 after W
  • Mvt. II: 2 before Z to the end
MahlerSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 316–322
  • Mvt. V: 760–779
MahlerSymphony No. 7
  • Mvt. V: 1–6
  • Mvt. V: 3 after 259 to 4 after 261
MartinConcerto for Seven Winds, Timpani, and Strings
  • Mvt. III: 6 after 18 to 7 after 22
MozartSymphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–21
  • Mvt. I: 289–end
SchumanNew England Triptych
  • Mvt. I: 1–13
  • Mvt. I: 111–152
ShostakovichSymphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. IV: 35 to 5 before 37
SibeliusSymphony No. 5, Op. 82
  • Mvt. I: P–end
StraussBurleske
  • 1–20
  • 7 after L to 22 after L
  • 9 after LL to the end
StraussDeath and Transfiguration
  • 6 to 2 after B
  • FH
StraussDer Rosenkavalier Suite
  • Quick waltz: 6 after 62 to 5 after 71
StravinskyThe Rite of Spring
  • Part 1: 3 after 72 to the end
  • Danse Sacrale: 146153
  • 189–201
TchaikovskySymphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 2 before T to 3 before U
WagnerGötterdämmerung
  • Funeral Music: 1–14
  • Funeral Music: 46–64
WilliamsStar Wars
  • Main title: 1–19
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