Euphonium Excerpts

[Lauronie]

Okay I'll give it a shot.
In no particular order, for they are all near and dear to my heart:

Stars & Stripes Forever, Sousa
1st Suite, Holst
2nd Suite, Holst
Festival Variations, Smith
Theme & Variations, Schoenberg
Melody Shop, King
Aegean Festival, Makris/Bader
Toccata Marziale, Vaughan Williams
Finale from Symphony No. 4, Tchaikovsky
Roman Carnival Overture, Berlioz

I also really like David Werden's website for some other audition info:
http://www.dwerden.com/audition/index.cfm

[Todd S. Malicoate]

How about for an orchestral audition (admittedly probably pretty rare!)?

Nice tangent...has there ever been an audition for a euphonium spot with a professional orchestra? Or saxophone, for that matter? Not just for one piece on one concert...an actual position with the orchestra.

+10 points for anyone who can find an example of either...

[Tom]

Has there ever been an audition for a euphonium spot with a professional orchestra? Or saxophone, for that matter?

Yes in both instances.

Not just for one piece on one concert...an actual position with the orchestra.

The auditions have been to be the "first call euphonium" or "first call sax" when rep for those instruments comes up, essentially meaning that you are the orchestra's euphonium or sax player. That said, the player is contracted individually for each service.

If what you meant was have there ever been auditions for a full-time-plays-with-the-orchestra-on-a-weekly-basis euphonium spot, I doubt such a position exists in any symphony orchestra.

+10 points for anyone who can find an example of either...

Do I win?

[Todd S. Malicoate]

The auditions have been to be the "first call euphonium" or "first call sax" when rep for those instruments comes up, essentially meaning that you are the orchestra's euphonium or sax player. That said, the player is contracted individually for each service.

Really? I suppose I believed that it was just a word-of-mouth or friend-of-the-principal-trombonist thing whenever a euphonium was needed. I had no idea how orchestras hire a saxophone player for Bolero or whatever else.

I was fortunate to have played banjo twice with the Tulsa Philharmonic (Rhapsody in Blue and on a later concert Highlights from Porgy and Bess). I didn't have to audition for this - word got to the personnel manager somehow that I had played the piece at OSU once before and presto!

If what you meant was have there ever been auditions for a full-time-plays-with-the-orchestra-on-a-weekly-basis euphonium spot, I doubt such a position exists in any symphony orchestra.

Of course not...there wouldn't be a euphonium part every week, or even every season.

Do I win?

Sure.

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[windshieldbug]

If you have read all the way to the end of this paragraph, you are seriously deranged.

Not as deranged as the person who wrote ite!

[Todd S. Malicoate]

Not as deranged as the person who wrote ite!

You may be right...

[windshieldbug]

Not as deranged as the person who wrote ite!

You may be right...

Touche´