Carnegie Hall

Violin

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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 1–16

Viola

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Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2, bars 34–48
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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Mozart: Symphony No. 41, first movement, bars 133–153
Brahms: Symphony No. 2, second movement, beginning–rehearsal A

Bass

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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

PICCOLO (Optional)

Rossini: Overture to Semiramide, five bars after rehearsal G–two bars after rehearsal H

Oboe

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Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, Variation VI, third bar of rehearsal 39–one bar before rehearsal 43
Mussorgsky: “Tuileries” from Pictures at an Exhibition

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
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, second movement, bars 8–56

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 to rehearsal A and rehearsal L–rehearsal M
Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, bars 101–123 and bars 139–171

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)
Wagner: “Siegfried’s Short Call” from Götterdämmerung
Brahms: Symphony No. 3, third movement, one bar before rehearsal F–bar 110

Trumpet

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Price: Symphony No. 1, second movement, beginning–bar 28
G. Mahler: Symphony No. 5, first movement, opening 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

Bass Trombone

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Haydn: The Creation, bar 26 and beginning–rehearsal C
R. Schumann: Symphony No. 3, fourth movement, beginning–13 bars after rehearsal A

Tuba

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Revueltas: Sensemaya, opening solo (first page)
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5, first movement, rehearsal 3–rehearsal 6

Timpani and Percussion

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Timpani

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, first movement, 18 bars before rehearsal S–end

Xylophone

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

Snare Drum

Timothy Adams: “Small Talk,” first page
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, third movement, beginning–rehearsal K (condense rests between H and I t0 4 bars)

Tambourine

Dvořák: Carnival Overture, opening–rehearsal C

Cymbals

Sibelius: Finlandia, 5 measures after rehearsal M

Harp

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Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, “Waltz of the Flowers,” cadenza with arpeggios