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BSO Section Percussion Live Round Repertoire

This document outlines the repertoire requirements for a section percussion audition with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Candidates will be expected to perform a solo piece on marimba or snare drum from the listed composers, excerpts from orchestra pieces on snare drum, xylophone, glockenspiel, marimba, vibraphone, bass drum, cymbals, or tambourine, and sight reading will also be assessed. The audition committee reserves the right to dismiss any candidate who does not meet the highest performance standards.

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BSO Section Percussion Live Round Repertoire

This document outlines the repertoire requirements for a section percussion audition with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Candidates will be expected to perform a solo piece on marimba or snare drum from the listed composers, excerpts from orchestra pieces on snare drum, xylophone, glockenspiel, marimba, vibraphone, bass drum, cymbals, or tambourine, and sight reading will also be assessed. The audition committee reserves the right to dismiss any candidate who does not meet the highest performance standards.

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SECTION PERCUSSION

AUDITION REPERTOIRE
February 2024
Preliminaries/Semi-finals/Finals

I. Solo (need not be memorized)

Marimba
Bach Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor [Fugue: mm. 1-55]
Tanaka Two Movements for Marimba [Mvt. I]

Snare Drum
Delecluse Keiskleiriana No. 1 [Etude 11: beginning to 6]
Tompkins Nine French-American Rudimental Solos, Vol. 2 [Etude I]

II. Orchestra Passages

Snare Drum
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Nielsen Clarinet Concerto [3 to 4, 16 to 18, 28 to 33]
Prokofiev Lieutenant Kijé Suite
Prokofiev Symphony No. 5 [Mvt. II]
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade
Schuman New England Triptych [Chester]
Schuman On Freedom’s Ground
Schuman Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 [Mvt. II]
Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 [Mvt. II; Mvt. IV]
Suppé Overture to Pique Dame

Xylophone
Berg Wozzeck, Act II [Scene 4: mm. 716-723]
Copland Appalachian Spring
Gershwin An American in Paris
Gershwin Overture to Porgy and Bess
Kabalevsky Overture to Colas Breugnon
Kodály Háry János [Mvt. VI: beginning to 1; 10 to end]
Messiaen Oiseaux exotiques [6 to 7, 14 to 18, 26 to 30]
Ligeti Piano Concerto [Mvt. III: mm. 71-76]
Schuman Symphony No. 3 [Toccata: mm. 230-244]
Shostakovich Ballet Suite from The Bolt, No. 5 [Mvt. VII: 1 to 8 after 4]

The Boston Symphony Orchestra tunes to A=441. You may use your own music, but please be prepared to use BSO parts if
requested. The Audition Committee reserves the right to dismiss immediately any candidate not meeting the highest standards at
these auditions.
Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtensk, Act I [Entre’acte: 113 to 121, 1 mm. before 126 to 5
after 127]

Stravinsky L’Oiseau de feu (1910) [complete ballet]

Glockenspiel
Debussy La Mer
Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Mozart The Magic Flute
Respighi The Pines of Rome
Williams Close Encounters of the Third Kind [mm. 126-139]

Marimba
Ammann Piano Concerto [mm. 118-135]

Vibraphone
Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story [mm. 567-607, mm. 620-655]
Williams Escapades [Mvt. I: mm. 49-65; Mvt. III: mm. 33-50, mm. 126-175]

Bass Drum
Mahler Symphony No. 3 [Mvt. I: 1 to 2]
Stravinsky Pétrushka (1947) [Third Part]
Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps [72 to 79]
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Aleo Complementary Percussion Etude V

Cymbals
Dvorak Scherzo Capriccioso
Mussorgsky Night on a Bald Mountain
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
Sibelius Finlandia
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker [Danse des Mirlitons]
Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasy
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Aleo Complementary Percussion Etude IV

Tambourine
Bizet Carmen Suite No. 1 [No. 1a: Aragonaise]
Bizet Carmen Suite No. 2 [No. 11: Danse Boheme]
Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Chabrier España Rhapsody
Dvořák Carnival Overture
Stravinsky Pétrushka (1947) [201 to 206]
Aleo Complementary Percussion Etude X

III. Sight Reading

The Boston Symphony Orchestra tunes to A=441. You may use your own music, but please be prepared to use BSO parts if
requested. The Audition Committee reserves the right to dismiss immediately any candidate not meeting the highest standards at
these auditions.

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