New Haven Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal bass
Application deadline
August 4, 2017
Audition date
September 17, 2017
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(Posted on June 7, 2017; last updated almost 8 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Any dance movement from any solo Bach
Excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • First page
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: Recitatives
  • Mvt. IV: 92–A
  • Mvt. IV: K–525
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: 1 to 5 after A
  • Mvt. III: trio to 22 after B
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. II: 3–22
  • Mvt. V: 3 after 70 to 6 after 73
Brahms—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 11 after A to B
  • Mvt. I: E–F
  • Mvt. II: 8 after B to 2 before D
  • Mvt. IV: 8 before L to M
Britten—Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes
  • “Storm”: 2 before 13 to the end
Handel—Messiah
  • No. 10, Air, “The people that walked in darkness”
  • No. 11, Chorus, “For unto us a child is born”
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 14 before A to 1 after C
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 1–A
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9–11
  • 40–41
  • 61–65
  • 77–78
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: 4 after B to C
  • Mvt. I: P–Q
Solos
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation XI
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: beginning
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
  • Solo sections
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