Audition Lists

[jdltuba]

Hi All!

I'm in search of orchestra audition lists for a project. Here's what I'm in search of:

1) audition lists from recent auditions or unique excerpts that you remember being on lists (other than the usual ones)

2) any sight reading excerpts you've come across

3) any section round excerpts you've come across

Thank you all for your help!

- Joe

[Steve Marcus]

I believe that it was Ted Cox who completed a detailed study of excerpts called for at auditions, the frequency of each excerpt"s appearance at auditions, etc.

[happyroman]

I have approximately 100 audition lists in my collection, as well as the document Ted Cox produced. There have been a ton of auditions since Ted wrote his article, and I think I have most of the major audition lists. The only one that I know I do not have is the full list for the Cleveland Orchestra after Ron Bishop retired. All I have for Cleveland is the list of five excerpts that were required for the recording to be submitted. As a note, quite a few of the lists I have are from various ITEC competitions (regional and international) as well as multiple years for the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

About 15 years ago (or more), after Ted sent me his article, I did a similar study and included the lists from auditions that had been held since Ted published his work. There were over 50 lists included and I determined how often each particular work was asked. I then found the median and standard deviation for all of the works and found them broken down into a few groupings. It will not surprise anyone that Die Meistersinger was asked on 100% of the auditions. The next four works were asked almost 100% of the time, but were omitted once or twice for some reason. These pieces are (in order) Prokofiev 5, The Ride, Petroushka, and Mahler 1. One standard deviation below the top five (which were the five works asked by Cleveland for their audition CD) were Symphony Fantastique and the Hungarian March.

If you are interested, you can PM me your email address, and I will send you a zipped file of what I have.

[tubapix]

Don't know if this helps but this is a list of audition music I compiled. The first 26 are band audition pieces.
Barnes, James 3rd Symphony for Band, measures 4 through 34
Bennett, Robert Russell Suite of Old American Dances
Bennett, Robert Russell Symphonic Songs for Band
Bernstein/Lavender Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, measures 654 - 668 & 670 -705
Chance Variations on a Korean Folk Song
Fillmore, Henry Circus Bee, ALL
Gliere/Leizden Russian Sailor's Dance, Beginning to “C", play lower octave to “B", Upper octave at “B", Lower octave two before “C" through end of excerpt 
Grainger, Percy Linconshire Posey
Grainger, Percy Shepherd's Hey
Hindemith Symphony in Bb, H through K
Holst, Gustav 1st Suite in Eb
Holst, Gustav 2nd Suite in F
Jacob William Byrd Suite
King, Karl Barnum and Bailey's Favorite, ALL
King, Karl The Melody Shop - beginning to downbeat of m. 9, and last 16 bars plus last A-flat downbeat.
Liszt/Brown Les Preludes, Pickup to "2" to 7 after "4" 
Mendelsshon - Weber/Moses-Tobani Fingal's Cave Overture, rehearsal H through 6 after rehearsal I
Reed, Alfred Armenian Dances
Reed, Alfred El Camino Real
Reed, Alfred First Suite for Band
Reed, Alfred Russian Christmas Music
Reed, Alfred Second Suite for Band
Reed, Alfred The Sinfonians
Reed, Alfred Third Suite for band
Vaughan-Williams Folk Song Suite
Vaughan-Williams Toccata Marziale - beginning to 2nd measure of rehearsal #5
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Berlioz, Hector Benvenuto Cellini
Berlioz, Hector Corsair Overture
Berlioz, Hector Hungarian March from Damnation of Faust: (Rehearsal #4 to four after Rehearsal #5)
Berlioz, Hector Judges of the Secret Court
Berlioz, Hector King Lear: #21 - #24
Berlioz, Hector Le Corsair Overture
Berlioz, Hector Romeo and Juliet: Mvt I (Romeo and Juliet - Dramatische Symphonie, Op. 17 )
Berlioz, Hector Symphony Fantastique
Brahms 2nd Symphony: Mvt IV: O - end
Brahms Academic Festival Overture
Brahms German Requiem
Bruckner 4th Symphony
Bruckner 7th Symphony: Mvt I: F - H, M - N; Mvt IV: P - S
Bruckner 8th. Symphony
Delibes Coppellia
Frank Symphony in D
Gershwin An American in Paris
Glinka Ruslan and Ludmila
Hindemith Mathis der Maler
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses: Mvt II: 4 after L - 2 after P
Holst The Planets
Mahler 5th Symphony
Mahler 6th Symphony: Mvt IV: #104 - 9 before #105, 3 after #116 - 5 after #116
Mahler 7th Symphony
Mahler Symphony No. 1: Mvt III: 4 before #3 - #4
Mahler Symphony No. 2: Mvt V: #10-#11
Mendelssohn Overture to Midsummer Nights Dream: 13 after A - 33 after A
Moussourgsky Night on bald Mountain
Moussourgsky arr. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition: Bydlo
Neilsen Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable", Op. 29 
Neilsen Symphony No. 5
Prokofiev 5th Symphony: Mvt I: #3-#6; 2 before #14 - 3 after #47; Mvt. IV: #94-#95
Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
Prokofiev Lt. Kije
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite #2
Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 (Mvt I - #3 to 2 bars before #6, Mvt IV - #94 to 3 bars before #95, Mvt IV – 1 bar before #98 to 4 bars after #98
Respighi Fountains of Rome
Revueltas Sensemaya
Saint-Saens Saint-Saens
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Shostakovich Symphony No. 7
Shostakovich Symphony No. 9
Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Strauss Alpine Symphony
Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra
Strauss Death and Transfiguration
Strauss Ein Heldenleben
Strauss Till Eulenspiegel
Stravinsky, Igor Firebird
Stravinsky, Igor Petrouchka: 3 after #100 - 4 before #101, #121 - #122, #189 to #191 (Peasant with Bear)
Stravinsky, Igor Rite of Spring
Tchaikovsky, P.I. 1812 Overture
Tchaikovsky, P.I. Francesca da Rimini
Tchaikovsky, P.I. March Slave
Tchaikovsky, P.I. Symphony No. 4
Tchaikovsky, P.I. Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky, P.I. Symphony No. 6: Mvt I: O - 3 after R; Mvt III: GG - end; Mvt IV: L - end
Vaughan-Williams Symphony No. 6
Verdi Nabucco Overture - Beginning to m. 16
Wagner, Richard Das Rheingold Scene III – Lento e sostenuto
Wagner, Richard Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Overture (opening to downbeat of A [skip the five bars of rest]; J through beat 2 of L) 
Wagner, Richard Ein Faust Overtüre: the first 3 bars
Wagner, Richard Entry of the Gods into Walhalla
Wagner, Richard 'Fafner' Solo
Wagner, Richard Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
Wagner, Richard Ride of the Valkeries: 125 – 142 (2nd B Major section- pickup to Rehearsal 11 through five after Rehearsal 12)
Wagner, Richard Siegfried's Rhine Journey
Wagner, Richard Venusburg Music from Tannhauser
Wagner, Richard Wagner, Siegfried's Funeral Music from "Götterdämmerung"
Bach, J.S. Cello Suite No. 5 (Sarabande - One octave lower)
Vaughan-Williams Tuba Concerto