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 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Orchestral excerpts
Barber—Medea’s Dance of Vengeance
  • 28–32
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. IV: 42–50
  • Mvt. V: 550–572
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Mvt. II: 301–338
  • Mvt. II: 372–394
  • Mvt. IV: 26–53
Bartók—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 95–109
  • Mvt. II: 22–29
  • Final section: 20–31
Beethoven—Symphony 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
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 324 to Mvt. IV: 395
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I: 89–110
  • Mvt. I: 315–326
  • Mvt. I: 421–end
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. IV: 450–end
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. I: 16–35
  • Mvt. I: 297–339
  • Mvt. I: 513–end
  • Mvt. II: 248–296
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV, second timpani part: 1–17
Bernstein—Candide
  • Overture: 189–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 1–29
  • Mvt. IV: 387–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: 1–17
Elgar—Enigma Variations
  • Variation VII, “Troyte”
Hindemith—Symphonic 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
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: 316–322
  • Mvt. V: 760–779
Mahler—Symphony No. 7
  • Mvt. V: 1–6
  • Mvt. V: 3 after 259 to 4 after 261
Martin—Concerto for Seven Winds, Timpani, and Strings
  • Mvt. III: 6 after 18 to 7 after 22
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–21
  • Mvt. I: 289–end
Schuman—New England Triptych
  • Mvt. I: 1–13
  • Mvt. I: 111–152
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10
  • Mvt. IV: 35 to 5 before 37
Sibelius—Symphony No. 5, Op. 82
  • Mvt. I: P–end
Strauss—Burleske
  • 1–20
  • 7 after L to 22 after L
  • 9 after LL to the end
Strauss—Death and Transfiguration
  • 6 to 2 after B
  • F–H
Strauss—Der Rosenkavalier Suite
  • Quick waltz: 6 after 62 to 5 after 71
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • Part 1: 3 after 72 to the end
  • Danse Sacrale: 146–153
  • 189–201
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 2 before T to 3 before U
Wagner—Götterdämmerung
  • Funeral Music: 1–14
  • Funeral Music: 46–64
Williams—Star Wars
  • Main title: 1–19
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