Novicekiddo wrote:Thank You everyone! But i have a choice of when to take the audition, it is accepted anytime. I am just planning to set this goal to get in this orchestra.
Here is a list from a Boston Symphony audition a few years ago, in the archives of the old Tubenet:
http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/dec2002 ... 14666.html
But many of these are exposed solos that work best on F tuba, or that require orchestral virtuosity that may be outside the range of the group you want to join. You'll have to google the titles to find the composers, and then search for the parts, which can sometimes be found provided for download for audition requests for school orchestras, if you look around. You have time so some patience will be rewarded.
Personally, I could find five minutes worth of characteristic tuba music from two symphonies: Shostakovich 5 and Prokofiev 5. Even many high-end pros might choose to play these on a large Bb tuba these days. But the excerpts for these are now protected by copyright and might require some searching or borrowing. The Tchaikovsky late symphonies (4-6), for example, have music which will challenge the orchestral sound and projection of a tuba player, and which fit well with a contrabass instrument. But there is also good stuff in his tone poems, like 1812 Overture. Another popular and now public-domain excerpt is Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, but you MUST hear this in context, and rhythmic accuracy is ESSENTIAL. This is the mother of all excerpts, so if you play it, it must be perfect--everyone will have heard it a zillion times. ("Walkure" = "Valkyries", by the way.) There is a lot in Wagner that works on a contrabass tuba like your Bb. The Tchaikovsky and Wagner works are all on the Cherry CD.
Speaking of which, if you have funds to invest in a library of orchestral excerpts, start with the Gordon Cherry CD (google it), which contains the trombone and tuba parts for nearly all orchestral works published before 1923. Later works were included in various publications of excerpts that were edited by Abe Torchinsky, but these will require more diligence to find and will cost more per work. Some of these are still published by Encore, and Encore also has a general excerpts book including a bit of the same stuff as the Cherry CD:
http://www.encoremupub.com/categories/T ... -Excerpts/
Another worthy investment will be Gene Pokorny's Orchestral Excerpts CD on the Summit label, which will demonstrate how they are played by a world-class performer.
Do not worry about Bb versus C. All the music is written in concert pitch and you can just play it. It is unlikely anyone will know the difference even by looking, and nearly impossible to tell the difference just by listening.
I will second the recommendation to only play what you 1.) can understand in context, and 2.) can play perfectly along with a recording. An audition is not the place for risks or experimentation.
Rick "who has made the past mistake of over-reaching in an audition" Denney
