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Principal Tuba Honolulu Symphony (One Year Vacancy)

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:30 am
by Dave2ba
For anyone who is interested in the Honolulu Symphony Principal Tuba audition please go to the Honolulu Symphony website (http://www.honolulusymphony.com) for more information. The advertisement was in this month's International Musician.

Base pay will be 34 weeks at $1,014.71 plus 25% overscale plus benefits (medical/insurance/etc). The audition information is below:

[b]The Honolulu Symphony announces the following vacancies for the 2007-2008 Season
(pending results of local auditions):

TENURE-TRACK FULL-TIME POSITIONS:
Associate Principal/3rd Flute/Piccolo
Fourth Horn
Principal Trombone
Section First Violin (1 position)
Section Second Violin (1 position)
Section Cello (1 position)

ONE-YEAR FULL-TIME POSITIONS ALSO AVAILABLE:
Section First Violin (1 position)
Third/Bass Trombone
Principal Tuba
Section Viola

TENURE-TRACK PER-SERVICE POSITIONS ALSO AVAILABLE:
Section Viola (1 position)
Section Cello (1 position)
Section Bass (1 position)

Mainland US auditions are planned for late May/early June 2007
exact dates and location(s) to be determined.

Highly qualified applicants must mail or fax a current
one-page, typed resume, including current address,
telephone number and email, to:

Honolulu Symphony Auditions
attn: Andrew Eckard, Audition Coordinator
650 Iwilei Rd., Suite 202, Honolulu, HI 96817
FAX: (808) 524-1507
REPERTOIRE WILL NOT BE GIVEN OUT OVER THE PHONE OR BY EMAIL.
Repertoire and Registration Forms will be available at www.HonoluluSymphony.com.

Base salary for 2007-2008 Season:
$1,014.71/wk for 34 weeks, plus benefits
Per-service guarantee for 2007-2008 Season:
$126.84/svc for 84 services, plus benefits
Position scale guaranteed by CBA:
25% for Principal, 10% for Associate Principal

If a vacant position is won by a current HSO member, the resulting vacancy may be offered to another winning candidate.

The Honolulu Symphony Audition Committee reserves the right to dismiss at any time any candidate not meeting the highest professional standards at these auditions. Candidates must show proof of eligibility to be employed in the U.S.A.

The Honolulu Symphony Society is an equal opportunity employer.[/b]

Dave Saltzman

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:25 am
by JustinLerma
David,
When are the materials due? Also Where can I find the rep? There was no link on the website.

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:06 pm
by joebob
bloke wrote:Assuming food stamps, a bicycle, and no air conditioning, is that enough to pay the rent for a room with a bed and a sink in Honolulu?

bloke " ' not really asking in a particularly sarcastic manner..."
I'm answering the non-sarcastic question. It looks like Hawaii is a very expensive place to live. I am not applying for this job so I've only spent a minute or two researching this on the web. It seems to me that you can afford to live there on $43,000/year (that's what I calculated the salary at - correct me if I'm wrong). You could even have air conditioning. You're not going to live the high life, but you wouldn't starve and you could probably even afford cable. This is all assuming that the salary is supporting ONE person. Anyone interested in this job should do their own financial research and keep in mind the costs of visiting the mainland (ie auditions).

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:49 pm
by Dylan King
I hear it's a nice place to be homeless. One can just sleep on the beach and watch the welfare checks come in.

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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:53 am
by Alex C
bloke wrote:Assuming food stamps, a bicycle, and no air conditioning, is that enough to pay the rent for a room with a bed and a sink in Honolulu?

bloke " ' not really asking in a particularly sarcastic manner..."
You don't need air conditioning in Hawaii, for the most part.

Living in Hawaii on $43k would call for a change of lifestyle for most mainland residents. Housing would be the biggest shock, it would be a significant downgrade. Cars are expensive, food is expensive, going to visit relatives is really expensive.

Almost everything is more expensive in Hawaii, it all has to be cargoed in.

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:52 am
by Tubadork
why do you do that?
If this were a Morse code board I could see why you would, but it's a tuba board?

ANYHOW, here is the translation:
Bloke said:
ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THEY HAVE A REASONABLE CHANCE OF BEING OFFERED THIS JOB HAD BETTER FIRST LEARN WHAT "HAOLE" MEANS.

http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haole

Haole
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Haole, in the Hawaiian language, means "foreign" or "foreigner"; it can be used in reference to people, plants, and animals. It is also used in Hawaiian Pidgin as a term meaning "white" or "Caucasian." Haole is a highly charged word and can be used descriptively or derisively.
In Hawaiian Pidgin, local is usually considered the opposite of haole. Local is an omnibus term for any non-white raised in Hawaiʻi, encompassing Hawaiians, part-Hawaiians, Japanese, Japanese-Hawaiians, Chinese, Chinese-Hawaiians, etc. The antonymy reflects a long history of race and class conflict in the Hawaiian islands, in which the upper class (plantation and business owners, professionals) tended to be haole and the working class comprised Hawaiians and primarily non-white immigrants. Hence the descendants of Portuguese imported for plantation work are usually considered local, even though in other parts of the United States they would be considered "white".
Some people say that it makes sense to speak of local haoles -- haoles who have grown up in HawaiÊ»i and speak Pidgin. Others would say that the term 'local haole' is nonsense. Another term used is kamaÊ»Ä

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:09 pm
by windshieldbug
Too much work! :P

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:49 am
by Todd S. Malicoate
Doc wrote:
Tubadork wrote:If this were a Morse code board I could see why you would, but it's a tuba board...



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why do you do that?
If this were a tuba Morse code board I could see why you would, but it's a tuba board?

ANYHOW, here is the translation:
Doc said:
IS THIS BETTER?

rep list

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:11 pm
by rascaljim
2007 Honolulu Symphony Audition Repertoire List

Principal Tuba (one-year full-time)
Solo: Vaughn-Williams Tuba Concerto first and second movements only

Principal Tuba Orchestral Excerpts:

Berlioz: Hungarian March
[4] – fourth measure after [5]

Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet
14 measures before [4] – eight measures after [6]

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
4th movement: [P] – [S]

Gershwin: An American in Paris
5 measures before [68] – [68]

Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis Turandot, Scherzo
5th measure after [L] – [O]

Mahler: Symphony No. 1
3rd movement: 4 before [3] – [4]

Mahler: Symphony No. 2
5th movement (chorale): second measure of [10] – [11]

Nielsen: Symphony No. 4 “Inextinguishableâ€

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:23 pm
by SirCharls
Wade!

Check your PMs...

Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:26 am
by KevinYoung
From their website:


Third/Bass Trombone (one-year full-time)


Solo: J.S. Bach: Sarabande from Suite No. 5 in c minor for solo cello

Orchestral Excerpts:


Brahms: Symphony No. 1
1st movement: [C] to measure 61

Franck: Symphony in d minor
1st movement: 8 measures before [V] to 13th measure after [V]
3rd movement: [N] through 18th measure after [N]

Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin
[1] through downbeat of [3]

Berlioz: Hungarian March from Damnation of Faust
6 measures before [4] to 3rd measure of [5]

Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet
Introduction: 14 measures before [4] to end of movement

Haydn: The Creation
No. 26: beginning through downbeat of 7th measure of

Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite
4th movement: 5th measure of [5] to Tempo di Marcia funebre

Respighi: Fountains of Rome
1 measure before [11] to 3rd measure of [14]

Rossini: William Tell Overture
[C] through 9th measure of [D]

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 “Great C Majorâ€