Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra percussion audition


Audition information

Position
Principal percussion
Application deadline
August 20, 2018
Audition date
September 8, 2018
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(Posted on August 9, 2018; last updated over 5 years ago)


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Audition Repertoire
Snare drum
PetersAdvanced Snare Drum Studies
  • No. 9 in 3/8 (in a “one” feel)
ProkofievLieutenant Kijé
  • The Birth of Kijé
ProkofievPeter and the Wolf
  • Final March 49
ProkofievSymphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 32–end
Rimsky-KorsakovScheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III: DG
  • Mvt. IV: PR
  • Mvt. IV: SU
Xylophone
Gershwin/BennettPorgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture
  • 4 before 14 to 15
GoldenbergModern School for Xylophone
  • Etude XXVII, pg. 84, “moderato espressivo”
KhachaturianGayane
  • Dance of the Rose Maidens: 13
StravinskyThe Firebird
  • 4648
  • 127149
StravinskyLes Noces
  • 5765
  • 8798
WilliamsThe Cowboys
  • Overture: 34–38
  • Overture: 85–91
Xylophone and glockenspiel
GershwinAn American in Paris
  • 4 to 5 after 6
  • 7 before 21 to 21
  • 2 before 33 to 40
  • 7 before 62 to 62
  • 75 to 6 after 75
Cymbals
TchaikovskySymphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV
TchaikovskyRomeo and Juliet
Glockenspiel
DukasThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • 4 after 17 to 4 after 19
  • 2224
  • 7 after 52 to 53
TchaikovskyThe Nutcracker
  • Act I: finale
Tambourine
ChabrierEspaña
  • AB
  • O–end
StravinskyPetrushka (1947 version)
  • 201206
Vibraphone
BernsteinSymphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • 569–577
  • 582–631
Bass drum
MahlerSymphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1–3
StravinskyThe Rite of Spring
  • 7279
  • 103129
  • 167–end
Triangle
BrahmsSymphony No. 4
TchaikovskyThe Nutcracker
  • Act I: finale
  • Waltz of the Flowers
Castanets
DebussyImages pour orchestre
  • Mvt. II, “Ibéria”
Marimba
BachSuite No. 1 for cello
  • Prelude: 1–22
Sight-reading
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