2017

Texas Music Festival Orchestra tuba audition repertoire

Part I: Please play a brief (1-2 minute) cantabile selection.

Part II: Please play the following orchestral excerpts in this order-
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (3 excerpts)
• 1st mvmt – 32 to 4th ms of 35
• 1st mvmt – 4th ms of 38 (for five measures)
• 2nd mvmt – 71 al fine
Elgar: Enigma Variations (1 excerpt)
• Mvmt XI, 48-51
Mussorgsky (arr. Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition (3 excerpts)
• Promenade – 2 measures before 33 to 33
• Bydlo - entire excerpt (omit long rests at 39, 40)
• Great Gate of Kiev: 107-109