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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.

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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

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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.

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VIOLIN REPERTOIRE

Audition May 7

CONCERTO​

  1. Exposition of the first movement of a standard concerto

 

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EXCERPTS

Mozart – Symphony No. 40

  1. Movement 1: Bar 103 to downbeat of Figure [C] (bar 134)

  2. Movement 4: opening to downbeat of bar 48

 

Beethoven – Symphony No. 5

  1. Movement 4: opening (bar 374) to downbeat of Figure [A]
    (bar 399)

 

Beethoven – Symphony No. 9

  1. Movement 2 (Violin 2 part): Opening to Figure [B]

 

Brahms – Symphony No. 1

  1. Movement 1: Opening to downbeat of bar 29

 

Mussorgsky/Ravel – Pictures at an Exhibition

  1. 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

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Haydn Cello Concerto in C

Movement 1: exposition and development only, no cadenza

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EXCERPTS

Beethoven – Symphony no. 5

  1. Movement 2: Opening to downbeat of bar 10

  2. Movement 2: bar 49 to downbeat of bar 59

  3. Movement 2: bar 98 to downbeat of bar 106

  4. Movement 2: bar 114 (excluding downbeat) to downbeat of 
    bar 123

 

Brahms – Piano Concerto no. 2

  1. Movement 3: Solo – Opening to downbeat of bar 25

  2. Movement 3: Solo – bar 71 to end of bar 99

 

Brahms – Symphony no. 1

  1. Movement 1: Figure [A] to downbeat of bar 38

 

Mahler – Symphony no. 4

  1. Movement 1: Figure [1] to breath mark in 6th bar

  2. Movement 1: eighth note pick-up to 10th measure of figure [3] through 14th measure of
    figure [3]

  3. Movement 1: eighth note pick-up to figure [7] to figure [8]

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Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  1. Scherzo: figure [F] to downbeat of bar 151

  2. Scherzo: eighth note pick-up to bar 297 to downbeat of
    figure [O]

 

Mozart – Magic Flute

  1. Overture: bar 29 to bar 53

 

Mozart – Symphony No. 40

  1. Movement 1: two eighth note pick-ups to bar 115 through first bar of figure [C]

 

Rossini – William Tell

  1. Overture: Andante Solo

PERCUSSION REPERTOIRE

Audition May 7

SNARE DRUM

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

  1. Movement 4: figure [P] to downbeat of figure [R]

  2. Movement 4: figure [S] to figure [U]

 

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

  1. Solo: figure [49] through 7th measure of figure [50]

 

 

XYLOPHONE

Stravinsky: The Firebird

  1. 1st Tableau: Supplications de l’Oiseau de Feu: one bar before figure [47] to figure [48]

  2. Danse de la Suite de Kastchei Enchantee par l’Oiseau de Feu: figure [127] to downbeat of figure [133]

 

Gershwin: Porgy & Bess

  1. Overture - Allegro con brio: bar 3 to downbeat of bar 17

 

 

TAMBOURINE

Dvorak: Carnival Overture

  1. Beginning to figure [C]

 

 

CYMBALS

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture

  1. Excerpt 1: Allegro guisto: 2 bars before figure [O] to 13 bars after figure [O]

  2. Excerpt 2: 21 bars before figure [U] to 13 bars before figure [U]

 

Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4

  1. Movement 4: 11th bar of figure [G] to Fine

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