Audition information

Position
Horn
Audition date
December 4–5, 2017
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(Posted on July 27, 2017; last updated over 6 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
Solo
StraussHorn Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. I
Orchestral Excerpts
BeethovenSymphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I
BeethovenFidelio
  • Overture
GraingerLincolnshire Posy
  • “Rufford Park Poachers”
GraingerChildren’s March, “Over the Hills and Far Away”
HindemithSymphony in B♭ for Band
  • Mvt. II
Hindemith/WilsonSymphonic Metamorphosis
  • March
MawAmerican Games
MendelssohnA Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Nocturne
MendelssohnSymphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. III, third horn
Mussorgsky/OdomPictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
RavelPavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
SchoenbergTheme and Variations, Opus 43a
  • Variation VI
ShostakovichSymphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I
StraussDon Quixote
  • Variation VII: 2nd horn part
WeberOberon
  • Overture
Ensemble playing (to be played with a USMB member of the horn section; either horn 1 or 2 may be asked)
BeethovenSymphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III
MahlerSymphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: Opening
SchubertSymphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. I: Opening
TchaikovskySymphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: Opening
Sight-reading
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