Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra bassoon audition

Audition information
Position
Principal bassoon
Application deadline
October 20, 2017
Audition date
October 30, 2017
Payment
$141.82 per service
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(Posted on August 7, 2017; last updated over 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo
Mozart—Bassoon Concerto, K. 191
  • Mvt. I: exposition (without cadenza)
Orchestral excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 184–190
  • Mvt. IV: last 8 bars
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV: 52–53
  • Mvt. V: 8 after 63 to 4 after 64
  • Mvt. V: 4 after 83 to 2 after 84
Mozart—The Marriage of Figaro
  • Overture: 139–171
Ravel—Boléro
  • 2 after 2 to 3
Ravel—Piano Concerto in G
  • Mvt. I: 9–10
  • Mvt. III, both bassoon parts: 4 after 14 to 16
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. II: 5–A
  • Mvt. II: 1 after L to M
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
  • Mvt. IV, m. 10 to Mvt. V, m. 27 (attacca)
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • 1 to 3 after 3
  • 12 to 3 after 12
Stravinsky—Pulcinella
  • Variation 2a
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 1–12
  • Mvt. IV: 1 to 3 before C
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. II: 274–end
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. I: Q to 13 after Q
  • Mvt. III: 7 after A to 9 before E
Possible sight-reading
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