20 November 2009

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Timpani Audition

The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (an AFM orchestra) is holding national auditions on 16 January 2010. Application deadline is 01 January 2010. The initial posted excerpt list (as of this writing) is as follows:

  • Bartok Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, mvt. 2, bar 301-340; mvt. 3, bar 4-20
  • Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, mvt. 4
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 1, Scherzo, complete
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 7, mvt. 1, bar 89-110, bar 421-end
  • Beethoven Symphony No. 9, mvt. 1, coda; mvt. 2, F-H
  • Bernstein Overture to Candide, bar 189-201
  • Brahms Symphony No. 1, mvt. 4, bar 375-end
  • Elgar Enigma Variations, Troyote
  • Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphosis, Turandot, complete
  • Mahler Symphony No. 7, mvt. 5, opening -- 2 before 227
  • Mozart Symphony No. 39, opening – bar 21
  • Sibelius Finlandia, 5 after E-I
  • Strauss Burleske, opening – bar 20
  • Strauss Rosenkavalier Suite, 6 after 62 – 5 after 71
  • Stravinsky Rite of Spring, 189-end
  • Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, 2 before T – V
  • Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, N-P, 2 before moderato assai –end
  • Williams Superman, bar 103-114
The John Williams excerpt certainly is an interesting addition. Has anyone else seen it on any recent lists?

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