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Albany Symphony Orchestra
Albany, NY
David Alan Miller, Music Director
Vacancies for the 2008/09 Season:
Auditions September 08-11,
2008
Section (2nd) Oboe (Sept. 08)
Section (2nd) Horn (Sept. 09)
Section Bass (Sept. 10)
Section Cello (Sept. 10)
Stationary*/Section Violin (Sept. 11)
Section Viola (Sept 11)
*Stationary positions pending internal auditions
Per Service Orchestra – Subscription series $92.50*/service
(*contract negotiations underway)
Winning candidates are required to show proof of U.S.
citizenship
or eligibility to work in the U.S.
Qualified Applicants should send a one-page résumé and $50.00
deposit, to be received by August 8th (returned
at the audition or by mail if cancellation is made before September
5th) to:
Personnel Manager
Albany Symphony Orchestra
19 Clinton Avenue
Albany, NY 12207
Audition times will be assigned after August 15th.
NO PHONE CALLS.
Repertoire:
Section
(2nd) Oboe (Sept. 08)
SOLO:
mozart: Oboe
Concerto, First Movement, exposition
only
etude pg. 27: last
15 measures "Develop Sight Reading" by Dufresne
Charles Colin Publishing
(excerpt for rhythmic accuracy)
PRINCIPAL OBOE EXCERPTS:
rossini: La
Scala di Seta, upbeat to m.
6 – downbeat of rehearsal
[3]
(articulation/ornaments at discretion of player)
ravel: Le
Tombeau de Couperin, beginning – rehearsal
[2];
AND rehearsal [6] – [7]
stravinsky: Pulcinella, Serenata,
mm. 1 – 10 (rehearsal [8] –
[10] m.1);
AND Gavotta variation I, rehearsal [77] – [81]
SECOND OBOE EXCERPTS:
brahms: Haydn
Variations, theme only, with
repeats
dvorak: Cello
Concerto, Mvt. II – mm.
1 – 9;
AND 8th m. of rehearsal [7] to end
mendelssohn: Symphony
No. 3, Mvt. II – upbeat to rehearsal [A]
– m.100 (13th of [C])
Section (2nd) Horn (Sept. 09)
SOLO:
(Choose one)
mozart: Concerto No. 2
mozart: Concerto No. 4
strauss: Concerto No. 1
ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS:
(All of the following)
beethoven: Symphony
No. 3, Scherzo – Horn II
beethoven: Symphony
No. 7, 1st and 3rd Movements – Horn
II
beethoven: Symphony
No. 8, Menuetto (duet) – Horn II
brahms: Symphony
No. 4, 1st and 2nd Movements – Horn
III
mahler: Symphony
No. 1, 1st Movement – Horn II
shostakovich: Symphony
No. 1, 1st Movement – #17 - #22 – Horn
II
strauss: Don
Juan, (all) – Horn II
strauss: Ein
Heldenleben, 5mm. before #4 to 3mm. after
#5;
AND 1mm. before #78 to 2mm. after #79 – Horn II
strauss: Till
Eulenspiegel, Horn
III – 3rd horn solo
tchaikovsky: Symphony
No. 4, 1st Movement, opening;
AND letter
I to K – Horn
II
wagner: Das
Rheingold, opening – Horn IV
POSSIBLE SIGHT READING
Section Bass (Sept. 10)
*** updated june 12, 2008 ***
SOLO:
Concerto of choice
ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS:
bach: Orchestral
Suite No. 2, Double
AND Badinerie
beethoven: Symphony
No. 5, 2nd Movement, Letter C to the fermata
beethoven: Symphony
No. 5, 3rd Movement, mm. 1-100;
AND Trio to
m. 218
beethoven: Symphony
No. 9, 4th Movement, Recitatives;
AND mm.
92-115
brahms: Symphony
No. 2, 1st Movement, Letter E - F
brahms: Symphony
No. 2, 4th Movement, Opening to 32
mozart: Symphony
No. 40, 1st Movement, mm. 114-138
strauss: Ein
Heldenleben, #9 - 11;
AND two before #61 to third bar of #65
ORCHESTRAL SOLOS:
haydn: Symphony
No. 31, "Horn Signal"
mahler: Symphony No. 1
Section Cello (Sept. 10)
SOLO:
Exposition of a major concerto
ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS:
strauss: Don
Juan, first page
prokofiev: Symphony
No. 5, 2nd movement, 55 to the end of 7
after 55;
AND 3rd movement, 60 to downbeat of 61
tchaikovsky: Symphony
No. 4, 2nd movement, 21 before A to downbeat of 1 before
A
mendelssohn: Scherzo
from A Midsummer Night's Dream
beethoven: Symphony
No. 5, 2nd movement
brahms: Symphony
No. 2, 2nd movement, opening to A
mozart: Symphony
No. 35, 1st movement, opening to B;
AND 4th movement
shostakovich: Symphony
No. 5, 1st movement, 32 to 3rd bar of
38
shostakovich: Symphony
No. 5, 2nd movement, opening to 49;
AND 55 to 1 measure after 56
shostakovich: Symphony
No. 5, 3rd movement, 88 to 92
smetena: Overture
to the Bartered Bride, Opening to A
debussy: La
Mer, 2 before 9 to 6 after 9
mahler: Symphony
No. 1, 1st Movement, 8 before 8 to the repeat
sign
POSSIBLE SIGHT READING
Stationary*/Section Violin (Sept. 11)
SOLO REPERTOIRE:
Exposition from the first movement of any standard concerto
ORCHESTRAL REPERTOIRE (First Violin Passages Only):
schumann: Symphony
No. 2, Scherzo, opening to Trio 1;
AND Coda to the end
mozart: Symphony
No. 39, Mvt. II – Andante con moto,
from m.68 (B) to m.86;
AND from m.96 (C) to m.125
mozart: Symphony
No. 39, Mvt. IV – Finale, beginning
to m.78 (B);
AND from 15 mm. after
C to m.230 (E)
prokofiev: Classical
Symphony, Mvt. I, beginning to 5 after
Reh. B;
AND from 1 before Reh. D to 1 before Reh. H;
AND from Reh. O to end
prokofiev: Classical
Symphony, Mvt. II – Larghetto, opening
to m.12
r. strauss: Don
Juan, Page 1 (entire page)
brahms: Symphony
No. 4, Mvt. I, opening to m.53;
AND mm.280
- 297
brahms: Symphony
No. 4, Mvt. II, letter B (m.30) to m.37;
AND letter C (m.41) to
m.64
beethoven: Symphony
No. 9, Mvt. III, mm.99 - 115
mendelssohn: Symphony
No. 4, Mvt I, opening to m.110
POSSIBLE SIGHT READING
Section Viola (Sept 11)
SOLO:
1st movement of a concerto of player's choice
One movement from a Bach unaccompanied Cello Suite
ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS:
beethoven: Symphony
No. 5, 2nd movement
brahms: Symphony
No. 4, 4th movement, mm.
25 - 55;
AND mm. 99 - 108;
AND mm. 295 - 317
mahler: Symphony
No. 1, 4th movement, No. 22 - 25;
AND No. 45 - 2nd measure of 46
prokofiev: Symphony
No. 5, 1st movement, 3 after No. 13 to No.
16
sibelius: Symphony
No. 2, 2nd movement, B to 11 after Allegro
strauss: Death
and Transfiguration, 6 before P to V
stravinsky: Firebird:
Danse infernale du roi Kastchel, 10 - 11;
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