New Jersey Symphony Orchestra principal timpani percussion audition, 01/02/18

(Posted on October 19, 2017; last updated over 6 years ago)

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A solo or etude of the candidate’s choice, to be played on a standard set of no more than four timpani

Orchestral repertoire
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra	Mvt. IV: 42–50 Mvt. V: 5–59 Mvt. V: 383–412 Mvt. V: 550–572
Beethoven—Symphony No. 1	Mvt. III: 1 before A to 79 Mvt. III: 124–137
Beethoven—Symphony No. 4	Mvt. II
Beethoven—Symphony No. 7, Op. 92	Mvt. I: 409–end Mvt. IV: 3 before K to the end
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125	Mvt. I: 1–35 Mvt. I: 4 before K to 345 Mvt. I: 513–end Mvt. II: F–H Mvt. IV: 849–end
Brahms—Symphony No. 1	Mvt. IV: 375–end
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra	Variation M
Copland—Appalachian Spring	65–67
Elgar—Enigma Variations	Variation VII, “Troyte”
Hindemith—Symphonic Metamorphosis	Mvt. II
Mahler—Symphony No. 7	Mvt. V: 223–227 Mvt. V: 6 before 260 to 4 after 261 Mvt. V: 290–291
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543	Mvt. I: 1–21
Prokofiev—Peter and the Wolf
Schuman—New England Triptych	Mvt. I: 1–13 Mvt. I: 122–152
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 1, Op. 10	Mvt. IV: 35 to 3 after 36
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47	Mvt. IV
Sibelius—Finlandia	D–I M–end
Strauss—Der Rosenkavalier Suite	Quick waltz: 6 after 62 to the end Burleske: 1–A
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring	189–end
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4	Mvt. I: 2 before T to V

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