Kansas City Symphony percussion audition

Audition information
Position
Associate principal percussion
Application deadline
December 7, 2018
Audition date
January 21–23, 2019
Payment
$71,591 per year
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(Posted on October 5, 2018; last updated about 6 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Marimba
Bach—Lute Suite No. 1 in E minor, BWV 996
  • Allemande: beginning to the first repeat
Marimba — the candidate’s choice of a movement from the J. S. Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin (not to exceed five minutes)
Xylophone
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Mvt. III: 1–5
Copland—Appalachian Spring
  • 5 after 48 to 4 after 49
Gershwin—An American in Paris
  • 4–7
  • 6 after 20 to 21
Gershwin—Porgy and Bess
  • Overture: 4–18
Messiaen—Oiseaux Exotiques
  • 6–7
  • 5 after 13 to 5 before 18
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 III, scene 6: 379–384
Stravinsky—The Firebird
  • 1 before 47 to 48
  • 127–133
Stravinsky—Les Noces
  • Second Tableau: 59–62
  • Fourth Tableau: 2 before 96 to 98
Glockenspiel
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 2 after 16 to 5 before 19
  • Mvt. II: 2 before 40 to 41
Dukas—The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • 4 after 17 to 3 before 20
  • 22–24
Mozart—The Magic Flute
  • Act I, No. 8
Prokofiev—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • 35–end
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I: 1 to 15 before 3
  • Mvt. I: 13 after 7 to the end
Wagner—Waldweben
  • From the 9/8 measure for 9 bars
Vibraphone
Adams—City Noir
  • A3–C3
Bernstein—Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
  • 567–575
  • 620–631
Williams—Escapades
  • Mvt. I: 49–65
Snare drum
Britten—A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  • 6 to 9 after 9
Nielsen—Clarinet Concerto
  • 3–4
  • 27–32
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé Suite
  • Mvt. I, The Birth of Kijé: 1–2
  • Mvt. I, The Birth of Kijé: 13–end
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 37–40
  • Mvt. IV: 111–end
Ravel—Boléro
  • 1–2
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. III
  • Mvt. IV: 1 to 10 after L
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III: D–H
  • Mvt. IV: P–U
Schuman—On Freedom’s Ground
  • 289–306
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 11
  • Mvt. IV: 5 before 134 to 138
  • Mvt. IV: 176–end
Suppé—Pique dame
  • Overture: 4 before C to 8 before D
  • Overture: “Più mosso” to the end
Bass drum
Britten—The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
  • Variation M: 10–14
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 1–3
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • Danse de la terre
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 4 after 19 to the end
Tambourine
Britten—Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes
  • Mvt. IV: 10–11
Chabrier—España
  • L–M
Dvořák—Carnival Overture
  • 1–C
  • 8 before U to the end
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 2 before 202 to 206
Cymbals
Dvořák—Scherzo capriccioso
  • Q–end
Rachmaninoff—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. III: 32–33
Sibelius—Finlandia
  • M–O
Tchaikovsky—Romeo and Juliet
  • E–F
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 4 after 19 to the end
Possible sight-reading
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