PRINCIPAL TUBA

AUDITION EXCERPTS
September 2023

Prepared Solos:
Vaughan Williams Concerto in F minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra, 1st movement

Excerpts:

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Mvt. 2: [123]-[159]

Berlioz: Hungarian March from La damnation de Faust [4] – end (m. 95 – end)
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique (Tuba 1) Mvt. 4: [56] – 6 bars after [57]
Mvt. 5: [84]-end

Brahms: Symphony No. 2 Mvt. 4: [O] – end

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (Original vers.) Mvt. 4: [P]-[S]

Gershwin: An American In Paris (Original vers.) [67]-[68]

Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis Mvt. 2: [L]-[N]
of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Holst: Jupiter from The Planets bar 16-4 bars after [1]; 4 bars after [11]-5 bars
before [12]; [17]-8 bars after [17]

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 Mvt. 3: 4 bars before [3]-[4]

Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Revised Ed.) Mvt. 3: 16 bars after [15]-[17]

Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition Mvt. 4: Bydlo: complete

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 Mvt. 1: [3]-[6]

Respighi: Fountains of Rome pick-up to [11]-downbeat of [14]

Strauss: Ein Heldenleben [8]-[16]

[62]-[2 bars after [65] (no mute)
1 bar before [74]-2 bars after [75]

Stravinsky: Petroushka (1947 ver.) [188]-[191]

Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger [J]-[L]

Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (Hutschenruyter) [11]-[12]

Possible sight reading and/or ensemble playing in the final round maybe required.
Sarasota Orchestra will not provide excerpts.