
TUTTI PERCUSSIONIST AUDITION: REQUIRED ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
1st ROUND:
Snare drum – Jacques Delecluse: Test – Claire
Xylophone – Morris Goldenberg: Modern School for Xylophone, Etude no. XVIII
Solo piece for marimba or vibraphone, preferably with four mallets, no longer then eight minutes (scores need to be provided for audition committee).
2nd ROUND:
Orchestral repertoire:
Snare drum:
Rimsky-Korskakov – Sheherazade: Mvt. III and mvt. IV.
Rimsky-Korskakov – Capriccio Espagnole: Mvt. III from beginning until K; Mvt. IV from beginning until 10 bars after L.
M. Ravel – Bolero: from beginning until 1.
S. Prokofiev – Lieutenant Kije: Mvt. I from 1 to 2.
S. Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf: from 49 to 1 bar before 51.
D. Shostakovich – Symphony No.10: Mvt. II.
Tambourine:
A. Dvorak – Carnival Overture: from beginning until 4 bars before C, from Q to S, from T until the end.
I. Stravinsky – Petrushka: from 201 until 206.
G. Bizet – Carmen Suite No.1: No.1a Aragonaise
Xylophone:
G. Gershwin – Porgy and Bess: Introduction
G. Gershwin – An American in Paris
I. Stravinsky – Firebird: from 127 until 133.
D. Shostakovich – Symphony no. 15: Mvt. I from 16 until 7 bars after 18, 6 bars before 38, from 41 until 43, 3 bars after 48 until 50.
Glockenspiel:
O. Respighi – Pini di Roma
P. Dukas – The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: 4 bars after 17 until 10 bars after 26, 7 bars after 40 until 41, 7 bars after 52 until 53.
S. Prokofiev – Alexander Nevsky: from 81 until 84, from 90 until the end.
Vibraphone:
L. Bernstein – West Side Story (Symphonic Dances): from 567 until 577, from 582 until 631, from 701 until 705.
J. Williams – Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone: Hedwig’s Theme from 1 bar before 43 until 75 (theme).
Gran cassa:
I. Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring: from 72 until 79.
G.Mahler – Symphony No. 3: Mvt. I
Piatti:
P. I. Tchaikovsky – Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture: from E until 6 bars before F, from 18 bars after S until 13 bars before U.
P. I. Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4: Mvt. IV: from 16 bars after H until the end.
P. I. Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker: Danse des Mirlitons.