Carnegie Hall

Violin

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, first movement, opening solo, and second movement, rehearsal O–five bars after rehearsal P
Mozart: Symphony No. 39, first movement, bar 26 (Allegro)–bar 97, and second movement, bars 1–8
Price: Symphony No. 3, third movement (Juba), bars 62–93

Viola

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Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2, bars 34–48
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, fourth movement, bar 42–60 (replacing the originally announced Barber First Symphony)
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Variation V, beginning–H (top line only), and Variation VII (whole variation with no repeats)

Cello

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Brahms: Symphony No. 3, third movement, beginning–bar 39
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, first movement, bars 133–153
Jessie Montgomery: Starburst, beginning–bar 28
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, first movement, seven bars after rehearsal F–four bars before rehearsal G (solo)

Bass

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Brahms: Symphony No. 1, rehearsal E–bar 189 (use the second ending)
Jessie Montgomery: Coincident Dances, beginning–rehearsal 12, and bars 16–20
Mozart: Symphony No. 39, first movement, 14 measures before rehearsal A–rehearsal C

Flute

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John Williams: Hagrid’s Friendly Bird
Bellini: “Casta Diva” (solo) from Norma
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, first movement, five bars before rehearsal G–fifth bar of rehearsal L
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d’un faune, first four bars and rehearsal 2–rehearsal 3

PICCOLO (Optional)
Rossini: Overture to Semiramide, five bars after rehearsal G–two bars after rehearsal H

Oboe

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Barber: First Symphony, Andante tranquillo–rehearsal 36
Rossini: Overture to La scala di seta, beginning–rehearsal 3
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, Variation VI, third bar of rehearsal 39–one bar before rehearsal 43

ENGLISH HORN (Optional)
Berlioz: Le carnaval romain, beginning–three bars after rehearsal 1

Clarinet

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, second movement, cadenza F–G, and third movement, one bar before rehearsal G–four bars before rehearsal I
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, beginning–rehearsal 2
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, second movement, one bar before rehearsal D–one bar before rehearsal E

E-FLAT CLARINET (Optional)
Ravel: Boléro, three measures after rehearsal 3–rehearsal 4

BASS CLARINET (Optional)
R. Strauss: Don Quixote, rehearsal 72–rehearsal 74

Bassoon

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, second movement, Andantino–rehearsal A and rehearsal L–rehearsal M
Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, bars 101–123 and bars 139–171
Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, rehearsal 7–rehearsal 8

CONTRABASSOON (Optional)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, fourth movement, beginning–rehearsal A

Horn

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Price: Symphony No. 1, third movement, bars 80–97 (third horn), and fourth movement, bars 97–105 (first horn)
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, Variation IX, bars 56–58
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, first movement, rehearsal 17–one measure after rehearsal 21 (first horn)
Wagner: “Siegfried’s Short Call” from Götterdämmerung

Trumpet

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Donizetti: Don Pasquale, Prelude to Act II
Price: Symphony No. 1, second movement, beginning–bar 28
G. Mahler: Symphony No. 5, first movement, opening solo
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 2, Solo

Trombone

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Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, “Mambo,” bars 498–541 and “Cool,” bars 664–701
Mozart: “Tuba mirum” from Requiem
Berlioz: Hungarian March from La Damnation de Faust, second trombone, six bars before rehearsal 20–two bars after rehearsal 21

**The Barber excerpt is no longer part of the audition requirements.

Bass Trombone

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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, “Hungarian March”: six before rehearsal 4–two after rehearsal 5 (replacing the originally announced Tilson Thomas: From the Diary of Anne Frank)
Haydn: The Creation, No. 26 and beginning–rehearsal C
R. Schumann: Symphony No. 3, fourth movement, beginning–13 bars after rehearsal A

Tuba

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Jennifer Higdon: Percussion Concerto, bars 142–148 and bars 269–277
Berlioz: Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust, rehearsal 4–two bars after rehearsal 5
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, first movement, rehearsal 3–rehearsal 6

Timpani and Percussion

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Timpani

Carlos Simon: Tales: A Folklore Symphony, III. Go Down Moses, bars 255–267
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis after Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, second movement, rehearsal S–rehearsal T and two bars before rehearsal Z–end

Xylophone

Price: Symphony No. 3, third movement (Juba), bars 151–165

Snare Drum

Timothy Adams: “Small Talk,” first page
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, third movement, rehearsal D–rehearsal E, and fourth movement, rehearsal P–rehearsal U (condense rests from 16 to 4 between R and S)

Glockenspiel

Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, rehearsal 17–rehearsal 20 and rehearsal 22–rehearsal 24

Tambourine

Dvořák: Carnival Overture, opening–rehearsal C

Harp

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Mvt 2, Q to end (replacing the original Barber excerpt)
Ravel: Tzigane, rehearsal 4–rehearsal 5 and rehearsal 12–eight bars after rehearsal 13
Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino