Boston Symphony Orchestra - 2008 - Timpani and Percussion

 AUDITION REPERTOIRE Preliminaries/Semi-finals/Finals © Excerpts marked with © must be played on calf-head timpani during the semifinal round. I

Solos (need Solos (need not be memorized)  Timpani Gauger Carter Marimba Bach Snare Drum Delecluse Delecluse

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Audition Etude No. 2 Eight Pieces for Timpani – Saeta Lute Suite No. 1 in e mineur – Allemande Douze Etudes – Etude No. 11 Keiskleiriana No. 1 – Etude No. 7

Orchestra Passages  Timpani Bartók Bartók ©Beethoven Beethoven ©Beethoven Berlioz Bernstein Brahms Brahms Carter Carter Deutsch Hindemith Martin ©Mozart Schuman ©Schumann Strauss Stravinsky  Tchaikovsky  Williams

Concerto for Orchestra Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste Symphony No. 1 Symphony No. 9 Violin Concerto Symphonie fantastique (2nd timpani part) Candide – Overture Piano Concerto No. 1 Symphony No. 1 Micomicón Variations for Orchestra Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – Barn Raising Dance Symphonic Metamorphosis Concerto for Seven Winds and Timpani Symphony No. 39 New England Triptych Symphony No. 4 Burleske for Piano and Orchestra The Rite of Spring Symphony No. 4 Superman: March

Snare Drum Bernstein Prokofiev Prokofiev Rimsky-Korsakov Schuman Shostakovich Suppé

West Side Story – Symphonic Dances (four tom tom part) Lieutenant Kijé Symphony No. 5 – mvt II Scheherazade New England Triptych – Chester Symphony No. 10 Pique Dame – Overture

Xylophone Gershwin Kodaly Schuman Strauss Stravinsky

Porgy and Bess – Opening Hary Janos Symphony No. 3 Salome – Dance of the Seven Veils: one m. before E – F Les Noces – one m. before 58 – 62 and 87 – 98

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Stravinsky

The Firebird (complete)

Glockenspiel Debussy Dukas Mozart Respighi

La Mer The Sorcerer’s Apprentice The Magic Flute Pines of Rome

 Vibraphone Bernstein

West Side Story – Symphonic Dances: mm. 569-607 and 620-655

Bass Drum Bartók Britten Mahler Mahler Prokofiev Respighi Stravinsky  Tchaikovsky  Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto No. 2 The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra – Variation M Symphony No. 3 – mvt I Symphony No. 5 – Scherzo Violin Concerto No. 2 Feste romane – Circenses: rehearsal 6 – 8 The Rite of Spring – rehearsal 72 – 79 Symphony No. 4 Symphony No. 6 – Scherzo

Cymbals Rachmaninoff  Tchaikovsky  Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto No. 2 Romeo and Juliet Symphony No. 4 – mvt IV

 Tambourine Bizet Britten Dvořák Stravinsky

Carmen Suite No. 2 – Danse Bohême Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes Carnival Overture Petrushka (1947) – rehearsal 201 – 207

Sight Reading