Fall Quarter (Sunday, November 24, 2024)
Richard Wagner: Overture: Die Miestersinger von Nürnburg
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9
Winter Quarter (Sunday, March 16, 2025)
TBD: Concerto Competition Winner
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Spring Quarter (Sunday, May 18, 2025)
J.S. Bach/Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Frank Ticheli: An American Elegy
Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 1 “Nordic”
Fall Quarter Information
Dear Youth Students,
It’s my pleasure to welcome you to Youth Symphony! I’m looking forward to making music with you this season. Please check this page often for important updates.
Seating auditions will be held during our Fall retreat on Saturday, September 28. Excerpts for seating auditions are posted below. Please see the files below for part assignments for the first rehearsal and a seating chart.
Seating Auditions
All excerpts are from Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9. Prepare all excerpts listed for your instrument. All excerpts are included in PDF format below and bracketed in red. Tempo markings are listed at the top of each excerpt.
Flutes
Flutes
Excerpt 1: mvt. II, rehearsal 40 to rehearsal 42
Excerpt 2: mvt. III, rehearsal 50 to 51
Excerpt 1: mvt. I, rehearsal 15 to rehearsal 16
Excerpt 2: mvt. I, rehearsal 27 to the end of the movement
Excerpt 3: mvt. V, 4 measures before rehearsal 94 to 4 measures after rehearsal 96
Excerpt 1: mvt. IV, rehearsal 67 to measure 10
Excerpt 2: mvt. IV, rehearsal 68 to measure 22
Excerpt 3: mvt. V, pickup to rehearsal 94 to rehearsal 95
Excerpt 1: mvt. I, 1 measure after rehearsal 16 to 4 measures after rehearsal 17
Excerpt 2: mvt. III, rehearsal 55 to 4 before rehearsal 57 (play top divisi)
