Dallas Symphony Orchestra clarinet audition

Audition information
Position
Bass/utility clarinet
Application deadline
February 28, 2019
Audition date
April 1–29, 2019
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(Posted on February 19, 2019; last updated about 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
Solos
Mozart—Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Saint-Saëns—The Swan
Bass clarinet excerpts
Dukas—The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • 12 before 50 to 52
Grofé—Grand Canyon Suite
  • Mvt. III: 3 after 2 to 11 after 3
  • Mvt. III: 8 before 13 to 13
Khachaturian—Piano Concerto
  • Mvt. II: 2–8
  • Mvt. II: 220–234
Mahler—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 24 to 12 after 24
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 6 before 157 to 3 after 157
  • 4 after 165 to 3 after 167
  • 1 before 208 to 5 after 210
  • 3 after 212 to 214
Ravel—La Valse
  • 4–12
Schuman—Symphony No. 3
  • Toccata: 157–170
Shostakovich—Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Mvt. II: 23 to 13 after 24
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 7, Op. 60
  • Mvt. II: 97 to 1 after 100
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 14 to 3 before 19
  • 8 after 26 to 3 before 27
  • 72–74
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring (Nieweg edition)
  • 5 to 4 after 6
  • 11–12
  • 48–49
  • 1 before 141 to 142
Wagner—Götterdämmerung
  • Vorspiel: 5 before 15 to 5 after 15
  • Vorspiel: 15 after 30 to 21 after 30
Wagner—Tristan and Isolde
  • Act II, Scene 3: “Mässig langsam” to 10 after Ii
  • Act II, Scene 3: “Wieder bewegter” to 14 after Kk
First clarinet excerpts
Beethoven—Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral,” Op. 68
  • Mvt. I: 2 before K to 17 after K
  • Mvt. II: 1 before D to 9 after D
Brahms—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. II: 1–22
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 1–48
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 9, Op. 70
  • Mvt. II: 1–32
  • Mvt. III: 1–17
Possible sight-reading
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