Dallas Symphony Orchestra bass audition

Audition information
Position
Section bass
Application deadline
January 31, 2019
Audition date
March 25–27, 2019
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(Posted on December 6, 2018; last updated over 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement from any of the Bach cello suites (no preludes, no repeats)
The first movement from a standard-repertoire concerto of the candidate’s choosing (with cadenzas)
Orchestral excerpts
Bach—Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067
  • Overture: 1–10
  • Overture: 33–55
  • Double
  • Badinerie
Bartók—Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
  • Mvt. I: 27–56
Beethoven—Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” Op. 125
  • Mvt. IV: 431–441
  • Mvt. IV: 454–525
  • Mvt. IV: 765–810
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. I: 161–189
  • Mvt. II: 46–60
Mahler—Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I: 1–2
  • Mvt. I: 16 to 4 before 17
Mahler—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 13–15
  • Mvt. II: 33–end
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 1–B
  • Mvt. II: 1–12
  • Mvt. II: 36–48
  • Mvt. IV: 134–231
Prokofiev—Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2
  • Scene V: 4 after 49 to 8 after 50
Schubert—Symphony No. 9, D. 944, “The Great”
  • Mvt. III: 1–56
  • Mvt. III, scherzo: 105–151
  • Mvt. IV: 103–162
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 22 to 4 after 26
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 9 to 6 after 12
  • 2 before 61 to 70
  • 77–78
Wagner—Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
  • Overture: J to 4 before N
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