Symphony Orchestra
Seating Placement Excerpts
Seating Placements will be held on:
Saturday January 26th, 2019at Carroll Studios (625 W 55th St #6, New York, NY 10019)
The schedule for the day is as follows:
Violin: 10:00am – 12:30pm
Viola: 1:00pm – 1:30pm
Cello: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Bass: 3:00pm – 3:10pm
Woodwinds: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
French Horn: 5:00pm – 5:30pm
Trumpet: 5:30pm – 5:45pm
Trombone & Tuba: 6:00pm – 6:30pm
Percussion: 6:30pm – 7:00pm
Please arrive for your placement assessment between the times listed above.
There will be a space to warm up before the placement assessment.
Assessment Excerpts are as follows:
Viola:
Wagner – Page 1: Starting at the 4th bar of the 6th line until the end of the page.
Beethoven
Mvt. 1 – Measure 398 until rehearsal F
Mvt. 2 – The opening until measure 10; pickup to measure 99 until
measure 106.
Cello:
Beethoven
- Movement 2 (8thNote = 85bpm)
- 1-10
- 49-59
- 98-106
- 114-123
- Movement 3 (Dotted Half = 90bpm)
- 1-18
- 52-61
- Movement 3 (Dotted Half = 90bpm)
- 140-218
Flute – Oboe – Bassoon
Beach
- Flute – G to 9 before L
- Oboe – Vivace 2 before A to C
- Bassoon – Mvt. 2: C to D
Beethoven
Wagner
- Flute – Poco Pui Vivace to MoltoPui Str.
- Oboe & Bassoon – Same as Flute
Clarinet
Any or all of these excerpts. All 1st clarinet except for 2nd clarinet Beach concerto.
Beach (1st Clarinet)
- 4-15
- 128-130
- 154-160
- 193-204
- 259-265
- 411-420
Beach (2nd Clarinet)
- 100—119
- 154-160
- 321-335
- 423-428
Rienzi (Bb clarinet transposed parts can be found HERE)
Beethoven (1st Clarinet)
Chaminade (1st Clarinet)
- 9 meas. after B to 2 measures before C
- 3 meas. after N to O
French Horn:
Beach
Horn 1:
- Measures 311-318
- Measures 328-340
- Measures 411-420 “Animato”
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Horn 1 & 2
- Movement II Measures 29-39 (a.k.a. Letter “A”)
- Measures 148-158
**** Both Horn 1 and Horn 2 parts should be prepared for this short but very important excerpt****
Trumpet:
Beach:
- 193 – 199
- 296 – 300
- 420 – End.
Beethoven:
Wagner:
- After Allegro Energico, the second “solo” entrance
- 2ndpage, 2ndline where it is marked “FF”
- The solo phrases at “Molto piu Stretto”
Trombone & Tuba
Selections from the Wagner
Rienzi Overture