Audition Requirements for McLean Orchestra Auditions: August 2011
Brass Auditions: Saturday, August 20, 2011
String Auditions: Saturday, August 27, 2011
String Requirements – Brass Requirements
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PRINCIPAL BASS
Solo: Candidate Choice
Mozart: Symphony No. 35: Mvt. 1 (beginning to mm 35)
Brahms: Symphony No. 4: Mvt. 2 (mm 88-101)
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Scherzo
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5: Mvt. 2
Mahler: Symphony No. 1: Mvt. 3 (solo)
PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN, TUTTI SECOND VIOLIN, TUTTI FIRST VIOLIN
(all first violin parts)
Solo: Candidate Choice; two contrasting movements
Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony (page 1)
Mozart: Symphony No. 35 Mvt. 1 (beginning to mm 35)
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 Mvt. 3 (beginning to letter B)
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 Mvt. 4 (mm 33-64)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 Scherzo (beginning to mm 48)
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL CELLO
Solo: Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suite: Candidate Choice (Prelude and one other movement)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 Mvts. 2 and 3
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 Mvt. 2
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 Mvt. 3 solo passages
Debussy: La Mer (figure 9, top divisi line)
Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scherzo)
TUTTI CELLO:
Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suite: Candidate Choice (one movement)
Excerpts as listed above minus Brahms Piano Concerto
TUTTI VIOLA:
Solo: First Movement of one of the following viola concerti:
Bartok, Walton, Hindemith, Stamitz or Hoffmeister
OR Bach Unaccompanied Cello Suite: Candidate Choice (Prelude)
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture (pickup to 3 mm after reh. 1 to 8 mm after reh. 3)
Mendelssohn Midsummer Night’s Dream:Scherzo: Beginning to letter D
Brahms: Symphony No. 2: Mvt. 1 (mm 114-136; mm 350-373)
Strauss: Don Juan: Beginning to letter B
PRINCIPAL FRENCH HORN:
Solo: Mozart Concerto No. 2 or No. 4: Mvt. 1 (exposition)
OR Strauss Concerto No. 1 Mvt. 1 (exposition)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7: Mvt. 1
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8: Trio
Brahms: Symphony No. 2: Mvts. 1 and 2
Schumann: Symphony No. 3: Mvt. 2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5: Mvt. 2
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9: Mvt. 4
Strauss: Til Eulenspiegel
PRINCIPAL TROMBONE:
Solo: Jacques Casterede: Sonatine for Trombone and Piano: Mvts. 1 and 2
Ravel: Bolero
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
Mahler: Symphony No. 3: (both solos)
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Schumann: Symphony No. 3: Mvt 4
