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Tuba Resume Date - November 4, 2005 Audition Date - January 3, 2006 Starting Date - Employment will begin at the earliest availability of the successful candidate. General Information - The Audition Committee reserves the right to dismiss immediately any candidate not meeting the highest professional standards of the Cleveland Orchestra. The winning candidate will be required to show proof of US citizenship or eligibility to work. Only a limited number of highly qualified applicants will be invited to audition. Please indicate your instrument on sent materials. Repertoire will not be given over the phone. The Cleveland Orchestra is an EOE. Contact Information - Please send a one-page resume by mail, fax or e-mail to: The Cleveland Orchestra; Orchestra Personnel Office, c/o Steven Witser, Severance Hall; 11001 Euclid Avenue; Cleveland, OH 44106. Fax - 216-791-4150 Email - snwitser@clevelandorchestra.com Website - www.clevelandorchestra.com
Taped Audition Repertoire for PRINCIPAL TUBA I. SOLO: Selection of your choice, not to exceed five minutes (no accompaniment required) II. ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS: WAGNER: MEISTERSINGER OVERTURE Letter J through K (Breitkopf Edition) WAGNER: RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES Bars 125 – 142 STRAVINSKY: PETROUCHKA 3 bars after #100 through 4 bars before #101 PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY NO. 5 First Movement: #3 through 3rd bar after #4 MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 1 Third Movement: 4 bars before #3 to #4 BERLIOZ: SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE Fourth Movement: #56 to 6 bars after #57 (Kalmus Edition) All excerpts should be played in the above order. All individual excerpts are to be played continuously, however, breaks between excerpts are allowed.
Based on the composite list I have collected from more than 50 auditions, these are the top 6 excerpts asked. Amazing!
Andy
[/quote]Seeing as how the list was only given to a few specific invited individuals, I would assume that randomly sending in tapes would be uncouth. Yes?[quote]
It seems like anyone that sent a resume was sent the list (Unless I'm wrong). That's pretty standard practice. Good luck to all, I hope they choose someone! ![]() Bill Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.
Huttl for life
A random tape may be "uncouth" but if you are in audition shape, send in your tape anyway. What have you got to loose?
The only really uncouth thing to do is sending a tape which doesn't represent an acceptable performance for a major sympony audition.
You could always write the personnel manager and ask if you could send a tape. Apologize for missing the resume deadline and include your resume. In the meantime, make the best tape you can and don't send it in unless you think it sounds like the next principal tubist of the Cleveland Symphony.
May I inject some cynicism...these emails "inviting" tapes due Nov 28 barely give people 2 weeks to record...correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the Cleveland audition earlier this year a zoo? As I recall reading, the original list of invitees to live auditions was fairly small, but the ranks of first rounders grew greatly when people complained, teachers wrote recommendations, etc...now here is the cynical thought: I believe that they are doing this to placate the masses (in other words, to tie people up with tape making instead of bombarding the personnel manager with requests for the first round).
Maybe some people will get a live audition solely as a result of the tapes, but I doubt it.
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