“The President’s Own” United States Marine Band horn audition

Audition information
Position
Horn
Audition date
December 4–5, 2017
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(Posted on July 27, 2017; last updated over 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Strauss—Horn Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. I
Orchestral Excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92
  • Mvt. I
Beethoven—Fidelio
  • Overture
Grainger—Lincolnshire Posy
  • “Rufford Park Poachers”
Grainger—Children’s March, “Over the Hills and Far Away”
Hindemith—Symphony in B♭ for Band
  • Mvt. II
Hindemith/Wilson—Symphonic Metamorphosis
  • March
Maw—American Games
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Nocturne
Mendelssohn—Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
  • Mvt. III, third horn
Mussorgsky/Odom—Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Promenade
Ravel—Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a dead princess)
Schoenberg—Theme and Variations, Opus 43a
  • Variation VI
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • Variation VII: 2nd horn part
Weber—Oberon
  • Overture
Ensemble playing (to be played with a USMB member of the horn section; either horn 1 or 2 may be asked)
Beethoven—Symphony No. 8
  • Mvt. III
Mahler—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: Opening
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. I: Opening
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I: Opening
Sight-reading
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