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Applying to AUDITION for SODELO

Open positions and substitute positions are filled by audition.

 

Although we may not currently be looking for your instrument, we are always adding to our substitute list.

 

The first step to playing with us in any capacity is to send a video screening audition through this FORM. The requirements for the video are included at the top of the form. Generally speaking, a video audition consists of solo(s) of your choice and, in most cases, assigned scales.

 

Your video audition will be reviewed. If accepted, you will be invited to an in-person audition for open positions, or added to our substitute list for non-open positions (no in-person audition).

 

In-person auditions consist of assigned excerpts (see below).

 

Further questions about auditioning may be sent to the Personnel Manager at dmoschmann@hotmail.com.

 

Excerpts (open positions only)

All music can be downloaded free at www.imslp.org

Violin:

  • Mozart: Symphony #39, Last Movement, Beginning – Bar 41

  • Mendelssohn: Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Beginning – Bar 99

  • Beethoven: Symphony #9, 3rd Movement, Bars 99 – 114

  • Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet – Start at letter E (bar 141) and play up to and including the 4th bar of letter F (163)

 

Viola:

  • Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet – Start at letter E (bar 141) and play up to and including the 4th bar of letter F (163)

  • Rossini: La Gaza Ladra Overture, Allegro in 3/4 (listed under G, (www.imslp.org)

  • Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, 2nd mvt -from 4th bar of letter D to 2nd bar of letter E (8th note passage.)

  • 3rd mvt-starting upbeat to letter B (largamente)_to 10th bar of B

 

Cello:

  • Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet – Start at letter E (bar 141) and play up to and including the 4th bar of letter F (163)

  • Beethoven: 5th Symphony, 3rd movement (scherzo and trio)

  • Beethoven: 9th symphony, 4th movement (1st two pages)

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, 3rd movement, 1st two pages

 

Harp:

  • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, 2nd mvt.

  • Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Harp Variation and Fugue

  • Tchaikovsky: Cadenza-Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers,The Nutcracker.

 

Clarinet:

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole, Op 34 – I. Alborado and III. Alborado

  • Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream- Scherzo movement

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op.35, Mvt 3, cadenza-like sections

  • Brahms: Symphony #3 – 1st and 2nd mvts

Oboe:

  • Stravinsky: 1911 Suite from “The Firebird”

  • Richard Strauss: Don Juan (lyrical solo in G major)

  • Rossini: Overture to La Scala di Seta, solos (listed under S, www.imslp.org )

  • Bizet: Symphony in C, 2nd movement

 

Bassoon:

  • Stravinsky: 1911 Suite from “The Firebird”

  • Beethoven: The Consecration of the House Overture, 1st two pages (listed under W, Der Weihe des Hauses, www.imslp.org)

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, 2nd movement solos

  • Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

 

1st Horn:

  • Beethoven: Symphony 6, Movement III, 50 measures after [A] to 77 measures after [A]

  • Brahms: Symphony 4, Movement I, 6 measures after [B] to [E]

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Movement II,[K] to [L]

  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony 4, Movement I, [J] to [L]

 

Trombone 2:

  • Berlioz: Hungarian March, 1 measure before [4] to 3 measures after [5]

  • Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Movement IV: [56] to [57]

  • Brahms: Symphony 2, Movement IV: [O] to End

  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture, [M] to [N]

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