Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra Percussion Substitute List Audition

Solo Repertoire:

The candidate will play 2-3 minutes of a solo of the candidates choice. Operatic and Orchestral Excerpts:

Candidates will prepare all listed excerpts. Marimba 1. Druckman: Reflections, 2nd mvt. 2. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1, first 55 measures of Fugue Triangle 3.Bizet: Carmen, Suite #2, excerpt Tambourine 4. Dvorak: Carnival Overture, a. beginning to measure 40 b. 8 bars before U to the end. Bells 5. Dukas: Sorcerers Apprentice a. 12 bars before No. 18 to 4 bars after No. 19 b. No. 22 to No. 24 6. Mozart: Die Zauberflote, Act 1, No. 8 finale, pick up to fig. 30 to the end. Snare Drum 7. Rossini: La Gazza Ladra, overture, first 11 bars 8. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, 3rd mvt.; a. letter D to 4 measures before G b. letter P to U Cymbals 9. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, 3rd Mvt, fig. 32 to 13 bars after fig. 32

10. Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy overture, 2 measures before letter O through 12 bars after O Bass Drum, with cymbal attachment 11. Stravinsky: Petroushka, fig. 124 to 127.

Marimba 1. Druckman: Reflections, 2nd mvt.

2. Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1, first 55 measures of Fugue

Triangle 3.Bizet: Carmen, Suite #2, excerpt

Tambourine 4. Dvorak: Carnival Overture, a. beginning to measure 40

b. 8 bars before U to the end.

Bells 5. Dukas: Sorcerers Apprentice a. 12 bars before No. 18 to 4 bars after No. 19

b. No. 22 to No. 24

6. Mozart: Die Zauberflote, Act 1, No. 8 finale, pick up to fig. 30 to the end.

Snare Drum 7. Rossini: La Gazza Ladra, overture, first 11 bars

8. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, 3rd mvt.; a. letter D to 4 measures before G

b. letter P to U

Cymbals 9. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, 3rd Mvt, fig. 32 to 13 bars after fig. 32

10. Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy overture, 2 measures before letter O through 12 bars after O

Bass Drum, with cymbal attachment 11. Stravinsky: Petroushka, fig. 124 to 127.