
AUDITIONS
The Wyoming Symphony Orchestra announces auditions for the following openings:
Principal Cello
($71 per service)--Applications accepted through May 1st.
Section Percussion
($52 per service)--Applications accepted through May 1st.
Section Violin
($52 per service)--Applications accepted through May 1st.
AUDITION DATES
Principal Cello will be on May 14th, 2023.
Section violin and percussion will be on May 7th, 2023.
Audition Location: Casper College Music Building, Casper, WY
Email a one-page resume to Don Williams, WSO Personnel Manager
wsomanager@wyomingsymphony.org by Monday, May 1st.
Please include current address, email address and phone number.
Individual audition times will be assigned after May 1st.
VIOLIN REPERTOIRE
Audition May 7
CONCERTO
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Exposition of the first movement of a standard concerto
EXCERPTS
Mozart – Symphony No. 40
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Movement 1: Bar 103 to downbeat of Figure [C] (bar 134)
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Movement 4: opening to downbeat of bar 48
Beethoven – Symphony No. 5
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Movement 4: opening (bar 374) to downbeat of Figure [A]
(bar 399)
Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
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Movement 2 (Violin 2 part): Opening to Figure [B]
Brahms – Symphony No. 1
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Movement 1: Opening to downbeat of bar 29
Mussorgsky/Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition
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Movement 7 – Limoges – Le Marche: Figure [63] to
Figure [66]
CELLO REPERTOIRE
Audition May 14
CONCERTO
Haydn Cello Concerto in D
Movement 1: exposition only,
no cadenza
OR
Haydn Cello Concerto in C
Movement 1: exposition and development only, no cadenza
EXCERPTS
Beethoven – Symphony no. 5
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Movement 2: Opening to downbeat of bar 10
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Movement 2: bar 49 to downbeat of bar 59
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Movement 2: bar 98 to downbeat of bar 106
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Movement 2: bar 114 (excluding downbeat) to downbeat of
bar 123
Brahms – Piano Concerto no. 2
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Movement 3: Solo – Opening to downbeat of bar 25
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Movement 3: Solo – bar 71 to end of bar 99
Brahms – Symphony no. 1
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Movement 1: Figure [A] to downbeat of bar 38
Mahler – Symphony no. 4
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Movement 1: Figure [1] to breath mark in 6th bar
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Movement 1: eighth note pick-up to 10th measure of figure [3] through 14th measure of
figure [3] -
Movement 1: eighth note pick-up to figure [7] to figure [8]
Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Scherzo: figure [F] to downbeat of bar 151
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Scherzo: eighth note pick-up to bar 297 to downbeat of
figure [O]
Mozart – Magic Flute
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Overture: bar 29 to bar 53
Mozart – Symphony No. 40
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Movement 1: two eighth note pick-ups to bar 115 through first bar of figure [C]
Rossini – William Tell
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Overture: Andante Solo
PERCUSSION REPERTOIRE
Audition May 7
SNARE DRUM
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
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Movement 4: figure [P] to downbeat of figure [R]
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Movement 4: figure [S] to figure [U]
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
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Solo: figure [49] through 7th measure of figure [50]
XYLOPHONE
Stravinsky: The Firebird
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1st Tableau: Supplications de l’Oiseau de Feu: one bar before figure [47] to figure [48]
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Danse de la Suite de Kastchei Enchantee par l’Oiseau de Feu: figure [127] to downbeat of figure [133]
Gershwin: Porgy & Bess
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Overture - Allegro con brio: bar 3 to downbeat of bar 17
TAMBOURINE
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
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Beginning to figure [C]
CYMBALS
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture
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Excerpt 1: Allegro guisto: 2 bars before figure [O] to 13 bars after figure [O]
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Excerpt 2: 21 bars before figure [U] to 13 bars before figure [U]
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4
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Movement 4: 11th bar of figure [G] to Fine