TMF placement audition requirements for participants

• Each instrument requires specific excerpts and solos.(please see individual instrument listings)
• TMF placement auditions will begin on Saturday, May 31, 2008 starting at 12:00 pm
• For players of auxiliary instruments (Piccolo, English horn, E-flat and Bass Clarinet), please note that specific excerpts are listed for these instruments. For Contrabassoon, please include a sampling of your playing. Although you are not required to audition on auxiliary instruments it is encouraged.

Placement Audition Requirements

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Please make a selection:

• Strings
• Woodwinds
• Brass
• Percussion

Strings

Violin

Solo – One of your choice

Excerpts (printable version »):

• BrahmsDouble Concerto
  • Beginning – 1st beat of measure 54
• Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2, Mvt. II
  • Mvt. II - 11 before rehearsal No. 33 – 3 before rehearsal No. 35 (top line)
• Rossini Overture La Gazza Ladra
  • Measure 63 – 115

Viola

Solo – One of your choice

Excerpts (printable version »):

• RavelDaphnis et Chloe, Suite II
  • Rehearsal No. 158 – Rehearsal No. 166
  • Rehearsal No. 196 – Rehearsal No. 197
• Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2, Mvt. II
  • Rehearsal No. 33 – 13 after Rehearsal No. 35
• Rossini Overture to La gazza ladra
  • Measure 63 – Letter C

Cello

Solo – One of your choice

Excerpts (printable version »):

• BrahmsVariations on a Theme of Haydn
  • Variation V
  • Variation VIII
• Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2, Mvt. II
  • 13 before Rehearsal No. 37 – 14 after Rehearsal No. 37
• Brahms Symphony No. 3, Mvt. III
  • Beginning – 1 before Letter B

Double Bass

Solo – One of your choice

Excerpts (printable version »):

• Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2
  • Mvt. I, Pick up to Rehearsal No. 6 – 3 before Rehearsal No. 7
  • Mvt. II, 13 after Rehearsal No. 30 – 8 after Rehearsal No. 31
  • Mvt. IV, Beginning – Rehearsal No. 59
• Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn
  • Variation III, Measure 88 – Letter B
  • Variation VI, Measures 274 – 292

Harp

No formal auditions will be held for harp. Part assignments for orchestra will be determined in your first lesson with your private instructor.

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Woodwinds

Flute

Solo – One of your choice

Excerpts (printable version »):

• RavelDaphnis et Chloe, Suite II
  • Rehearsal No. 155 – Rehearsal No. 156
  • Rehearsal No. 176 – 2 after Rehearsal No. 179
• Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn
• • Variation III, Letter A – Letter B
  • Variation VII, Measures 293 – 302
• RespighiPine of Rome
  • Mvt. I, 6 before Rehearsal No. 6 – 8 after Rehearsal No. 6
  • Mvt. II, 4 after Rehearsal No. 10 for 4 measures
    • 12 after Rehearsal No. 12 for 4 measures
  • Mvt. III, 5 before Rehearsal No. 14 for 4 measures
    • 5 before Rehearsal No. 17 – 5 after Rehearsal No. 17

Piccolo

Excerpts (printable version »):

• Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn
  • Variation II, Measures 73 – 77
  • Variation V, Letter G – measure 225
  • Variation VIII, Measures 327 – 330
• Rossini Overture to La gazza ladra
  • Measures 3 – 21
  • Measures 188 – 195

Oboe

Solo – One of your choice

Excerpts (printable version »):

• Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn
  • Theme
  • Variation III
• Rossini Overture to La gazza ladra
  • Letter D – Letter F
  • Measures 345 – 392
• Ravel Daphnis et Chloe (from the ballet)
  • Rehearsal No. 2 for 5 measures
  • Rehearsal No. 17 – Rehearsal No. 21
  • Rehearsal No. 75 – Rehearsal No. 76
  • Rehearsal No. 116 – Rehearsal No. 118
  • 2 before Rehearsal No. 128 – 6 after Rehearsal No. 129
  • Rehearsal No. 134 – 6 before Rehearsal No. 135
  • 5 before Rehearsal No. 157 – 2 after Rehearsal No. 157
  • Rehearsal No. 170 – Rehearsal No. 175
  • Rehearsal No. 194 – Rehearsal No. 196

English Horn

Excerpts (printable version »):

• Respighi Pines of Rome
  • 10 after Rehearsal No. 18 – Rehearsal No. 20

Clarinet

Solo – Mozart Clarinet Concerto, Exposition

Excerpts (printable version »):

• Ravel Daphnis et Chloe, Suite II
  • 1 after Rehearsal No. 155 – 3 after Rehearsal No. 157
  • 3 after Rehearsal No. 212 – end
• Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2, Mvt. III
  • 6 before Rehearsal No. 46 – 1 before Rehearsal No. 47
• Respighi Pines of Rome
  • Mvt. I, 7 after Rehearsal No. 2 - 8 after Rehearsal No. 5
  • Mvt. III, Pick up to Rehearsal No. 13 – 12 after Rehearsal No. 17
• Rossini Overture to La gazza ladra
  • Measures 328 – Letter H

E-flat clarinet

Excerpts (printable version »):

• Ravel Daphnis et Chloe, Suite II
  • 3 after Rehearsal No. 161 – 2 before Rehearsal No. 166
  • Rehearsal No. 214 – end

Bass clarinet

Excerpts (printable version »):

• Ravel Daphnis et Chloe, Suite II
  • Rehearsal No. 164 – 1 before Rehearsal No. 168
  • 4 after Rehearsal No. 212 – end

Bassoon

Solo – Mozart Bassoon Concerto, Mvt. I – exposition

Excerpts (printable version »):

• Stravinsky Petrouchka (1947 revised)
  • Rehearsal No. 72 – Rehearsal No. 76
• Rossini Overture to La gazza ladra
  • Measures 3 – 23
  • Measures 188 – 195
• Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn
  • Variation II
  • Variation III
  • Variation V

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Brass

French Horn

Solo – One of your choice

Excerpts: (printable version »):

• Strauss Ein Heldenleben (Horn I in F)
  • Beginning – measure 17
• Shostakovich Festive Overture (Horn I in F)
  • Rehearsal No. 13 – Rehearsal No. 14
• Brahms Variations on a Theme of Haydn
  • Variation VI

Trumpet

Solo: One of your choice

Excerpts (printable version »):

• Respighi Pines of Rome (Trumpet I)
  • Mvt. I, Beginning – 8 before Rehearsal No. 3
    • Rehearsal No. 5 – Rehearsal No. 8
  • Mvt. II (off stage solo), as marked
• Stravinsky Petrouchka (1911) (Cornet I)
  • Rehearsal No. 60 – Rehearsal No. 62
  • Rehearsal No. 69 – Rehearsal No. 70
  • Rehearsal No. 71 – Rehearsal No. 76
  • 5 before Rehearsal No. 126 – 11 after Rehearsal No. 132
• Ravel Daphnis et Chloe, Suite II (Trumpet III)
  • Rehearsal No. 211 – Rehearsal No. 213

Trombone

No formal auditions will be held for trombone. Part assignments for orchestra will be determined in your first lesson with your private instructor.

Tuba

No placement auditions are required for tuba.

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Percussion

Excerpts (printable version »):

Glockenspiel

• Dukas Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Scherzo
  • 4 after Rehearsal No. 17 – Rehearsal No. 24
• Respighi Pines of Rome, Mvt. I
  • Beginning – 15 before Rehearsal No. 3
  • 13 after Rehearsal No. 7 – end of movement

Xylophone

• Gershwin Porgy and Bess, Overture
  • Measure 4 – 18

Snare Drum

• Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
  • Mvt. III, Letter D – 8 after Letter F
  • Mvt. IV, Letter P – Letter R
• Rimsky-Korsakov Cappriccio Espagnole
  • Mvt. IV. Allegretto: Beginning – 10 after Letter L
• Shostakovich Festive Overture
  • Rehearsal No. 17 – Rehearsal No. 19

Crash Cymbals

• Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy
  • 2 before Letter O – 7 before Letter P

Tambourine

• Dvorak Carnival Overture
  • Beginning – 3 before Letter C

Timpani

• Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, Mvt. I
  • 2 before Letter T – 2 before Letter U
• Beethoven Symphony No. 1, Mvt. III
  • Pick up to Letter A – measure 79

 

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