Grant Park Symphony Orchestra percussion audition

Audition information
Position
Assistant principal timpani / principal percussion
Application deadline
March 12, 2020
Audition date
April 6–8, 2020
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(Posted on January 13, 2020; last updated about 5 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
One movement from the J. S. Bach violin sonatas and partitas, lute suites, or keyboard repertoire utilizing four-mallet technique on marimba (no cello suites)
Snare drum excerpts
Nielsen—Clarinet Concerto
  • 3 before 29 to 32
Prokofiev—Lieutenant Kijé Suite
  • Mvt. I, The Birth of Kijé: 1–2
Prokofiev—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 37–40
Ravel—Boléro
  • 1–2
Rimsky-Korsakov—Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
  • Mvt. III
  • Mvt. IV: 1 to 11 after L
Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade, Op. 35
  • Mvt. III: D–H
  • Mvt. IV: P–R
Xylophone excerpts
Antheil—A Jazz Symphony (1925)
  • 80–110
Copland—Appalachian Spring
  • 4 after 48 to 4 after 49
Gershwin—Porgy and Bess
  • Act I: introduction to 4 before B
  • Act I, Scene 2: 212–213
Messiaen—Oiseaux Exotiques
  • 6–7
  • 26–30
Shostakovich—Golden Age Suite, Op. 22a
  • Mvt. III, Polka: opening solo
Stravinsky—The Firebird
  • 1 before 47 to 48
  • 127–133
Stravinsky—Les Noces
  • Second Tableau: 59–62
  • Fourth Tableau: 88 to 4 after 89
  • Fourth Tableau: 93–98
Glockenspiel excerpts
Debussy—La Mer
  • Mvt. II: 1–31
Dukas—The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • 17 to 4 after 19
  • 22–24
Mozart—The Magic Flute
  • Act I, No. 8: finale
Prokofiev—Alexander Nevsky
  • Mvt. VII: 81–83
Prokofiev—Piano Concerto No. 1
  • 35–end
Respighi—Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I: 1–46
  • Mvt. I: 7–end
Cymbals excerpts
Dvořák—Scherzo capriccioso
  • Q–end
Rachmaninoff—Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Mvt. III: 32 to 13 after 32
Tchaikovsky—Romeo and Juliet
  • E to 13 after E
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. IV: 272–end
Bass drum excerpts
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. V: 85–end
Mahler—Symphony No. 3
  • Mvt. I: 6 before 11 to 11
Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
  • 72 to the end of Part I
Bass drum with cymbal attachment
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 124–127
Tambourine excerpts
Britten—Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes
  • Mvt. IV: 10–11
Chabrier—España
  • L to 3 before M
Dvořák—Carnival Overture
  • 1 to 3 before C
  • T–end
Stravinsky—Petrushka (1947 version)
  • 201–207
Tchaikovsky—The Nutcracker
  • Trepak: 6 after C to the end
Triangle excerpts
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: D–E
  • Mvt. III: I–end
Dvořák—Slavonic Dance No. 2
  • B–C
Timpani excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. IV
Beethoven—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. III: menuetto
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. III: C to Mvt. IV: A
Berlioz—Symphonie fantastique
  • Mvt. IV, second timpani part: 1 to 3 after 50
  • Mvt. V, second timpani part: 2 before “Poco animato” to the end
Brahms—Symphony No. 1
  • Mvt. IV: 375–end
Mozart—Symphony No. 39, K. 543
  • Mvt. I: 1–22
Mozart—Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”, K. 551
  • Mvt. IV: 1–A
  • Mvt. IV: 388–end
Strauss—Der Rosenkavalier
  • Der Sneller Walzer: 8 before 247 to 6 before 256
Possible sight-reading
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