Sarasota Orchestra percussion audition

Audition information
Position
Section percussion
Application deadline
September 2, 2018
Audition date
October 26–27, 2018
Payment
$36,772.90 per year
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(Posted on August 23, 2018; last updated over 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Marimba solo
Bach—Partita No. 1 in B minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1002
  • Tempo di Borea
Snare drum
Delécluse—Keiskleiriana I
  • Etude No. 11
Nielsen—Clarinet Concerto
  • 3–4
  • 5 after 28 to 3 after 32
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 37–40
  • Mvt. IV: 111–end
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé Suite
  • Mvt. I, The Birth of Kijé: 1–2
  • Mvt. I, The Birth of Kijé: 13–end
Ravel—Alborada del Grazioso
  • 26–28
  • 32–end
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III
  • Mvt. IV: 1 before C to U
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. III
  • Mvt. IV: 1–M
Schuman—Symphony No. 3
  • Toccata: 143–200
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. II: 98–end
Suppé—Pique dame
  • Overture: 95–130
  • Overture: 284–end
Tompkins—Nine French-American Rudimental Solos
  • Etude No. 3
Xylophone
Bailey—Two Sticks in Search of a Waltz
  • pg. 140–141: beginning to sign then cut to coda and play to the end
Copland—Appalachian Spring Suite
  • 48 to 5 after 49
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 4–7
  • 6 after 20 to 21
  • 32–37
  • 61–62
Gershwin—Porgy and Bess
  • Opening
Kabalevsky—Colas Breugnon
  • Overture: 9–12
  • Overture: 35–37
  • Overture: 57–end
Prokofiev—Alexander Nevsky
  • Mvt. IV: 30–31
Rouse—Phaethon
  • 275–296
Schoenberg—Moses und Aron
  • Act II, Scene 3: 372–393
Schuman—Symphony No. 3
  • Toccata: 230–244
Shostakovich—The Golden Age
  • Polka: 45–47
Stravinsky—The Firebird (1911 version)
  • 46–48
  • 127–134
Glockenspiel
Debussy—La Mer
Dukas—The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • 17–20
  • 22–24
  • 52–53
Messiaen—Oiseaux Exotiques
  • 6–7
  • 26–30
Mozart—The Magic Flute
  • Act I: Finale
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I
Tchaikovsky—Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a
  • Mvt. V, Waltz
Vibraphone
Bernstein—Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • 569–577
  • 582–608
  • 620–632
Tüür—Symphony No. 6, “Strata”
  • HH–KK
Williams—Catch Me If You Can
  • Mvt. I, “Escapades”: 49–66
  • Mvt. III: 126–175
Tambourine
Bizet—Carmen Suite No. 1
  • Aragonaise
Bizet—Carmen Suite No. 2
  • Danse Bohème: C to 2 before F
  • Danse Bohème: 4 before L to 4 after M
Britten—Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes
  • Mvt. IV: 10–11
Chabrier—España
  • 20 after A to B
  • L–M
Dvořák—Carnival Overture
  • 1–C
  • Q–S
  • T–end
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 201–207
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • Danse Arabe
  • Trepak: 54–end
Bass drum
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation M
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • 72 to 4 after 75
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 16 after H to the end
Cymbals
Dvořák—Scherzo capriccioso
  • 820–end
Rachmaninoff—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • 32 to 14 after 32
Sibelius—Finlandia
  • N–O
Tchaikovsky—Romeo and Juliet
  • 2 before O to 7 before P
  • 18 after S to U
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 16 after H to the end
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • Danse des Mirlitons
  • Final Waltz
Possible sight-reading
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