Second Clarinet

Monday January 20, 2025
Audition List:
Solo

I. Exposition from the first movement:

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto *

II. Orchestral Excerpts – First Clarinet parts

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6

Mvt. 1 – mm.474-492
Mvt. 2 – mm.68-77
Brahms: Symphony No. 3

Mvt. 1 – mm.36-46 *
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Beginning to downbeat of Rehearsal 2
Kodaly: Dances of Galanta

mm.31-65 *
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3

Mvt. 2 – mm.8-67
Puccini: Tosca

Act III: E lucevan le stelle

Rehearsal 11 through measure 1 of Rehearsal 12 *
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker

Act 1, Scene 1, “Allegro Vivace” – 9 measures before Reh. E through downbeat of 13 measures after Reh. F
III. Orchestral Excerpts – Second Clarinet parts

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture

mm.206-217
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Scherzo – mm.1-39
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9

Mvt. 2 – mm.30-78 *
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Mvt. 1 – mm.1-37 *
* = “A” clarinet