Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra percussion audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal timpani percussion
Application deadline
November 6, 2017
Audition date
January 29–30, 2018
Weeks in season
46
Payment
$63,056.80 per year
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(Posted on October 16, 2017; last updated about 7 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solo marimba
Bach—Lute Suite No. 1 in E minor, BWV 996
  • Allemande
Snare drum
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé Suite
  • 1–3
  • 13–end
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 37–40
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. III
  • Mvt. IV: 1 to 10 after L
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
Schuman—New England Triptych
  • Chester: 106–122
Schuman—On Freedom’s Ground
Schuman—Symphony No. 3
  • Part II: 2 before 145 to 5 after 195
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. II: 98–end
Xylophone
Copland—Appalachian Spring Suite
  • 5 after 48 to 4 after 49
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 4–7
  • 6 after 20 to 22
  • 5 after 32 to 6 after 36
Gershwin—Porgy and Bess
  • Introduction: 3–16
  • Act I, Scene 2: 212–213
  • Act II, Scene 1: 108–109
Green—Log Cabin Blues
Messiaen—Oiseaux Exotiques
  • 6–7
  • 1 after 16 to 8 after 17
Schuman—Symphony No. 3
  • Toccata: 230–244
Shostakovich—Cello Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. III: 1 before 100 to 101
Shostakovich—Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
  • Act I, Entr’acte: 113–128
  • Act III, scene 6: 7 before 380 to 384
Stravinsky—The Firebird
  • 1 before 47 to 48
  • 127–133
Williams—The Cowboys
  • Overture: 34–39
  • Overture: 85–92
Glockenspiel
Dukas—The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Glazunov—Violin Concerto
  • 46–53
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I
Vibraphone
Bernstein—Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • 581–638
  • 701–705
Williams—Escapades
  • Mvt. I: 49–65
  • Mvt. III: 126–181
Tambourine
Britten—Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes
  • Mvt. IV: 10–11
Chabrier—España
  • L–end
Dvořák—Carnival Overture
  • 1 to 4 before C
  • T–end
Cymbals
Rachmaninoff—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. III: 32–33
Tchaikovsky—Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
Timpani
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. IV
Beethoven—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. I
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I
  • Mvt. IV
Hindemith—Symphonic Metamorphosis
  • “Turandot Scherzo”
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
Prokofiev—Peter and the Wolf
  • The Hunter’s Solo
Schuman—New England Triptych
Sibelius—Finlandia
Strauss—Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • 189–end
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. I
Possible sight-reading
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