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High School Orchestra Audition Excerpts

2022-23

Updated cuts, published Oct. 3, are listed below.

Violin
  • D melodic minor scale
  • Brahms: Beginning to mm. 15 ending on the first beat 1& (F#)
  • Beethoven: Mm. 7 to the End
  • Elgar: All of Andante Mvmt. 7
Viola
  • D melodic minor scale
  • Brahms: Mm. 1 through the downbeat of mm. 11
  • Shostakovich: Mm. 3 to the end of the excerpt
  • No Tchaikovsky
Cello
  • D melodic minor scale
  • Rimsky Korsakov: Beginning to Mm. 8 beat 2
  • Beethoven: 2nd ending to the end
  • Mahler: Section 3 marker to the end
Bass
  • D melodic minor scale
  • Beethoven: all without repeat
  • Elephant: 21 - End
  • Wagner: All

Audition Cuts

Published Oct. 3

Violin
  • D melodic minor scale
  • Brahms: Beginning to mm. 15 ending on the first beat 1& (F#)
  • Elgar: All of Andante Mvmt. 7
  • No Beethoven
Viola
  • D melodic minor scale
  • Brahms: Mm. 1 through the downbeat of mm. 11
  • Shostakovich: Mm. 3 to the end of the excerpt
  • No Tchaikovsky
Cello
  • D melodic minor scale
  • Rimsky Korsakov: Beginning to Mm. 8 beat 2
  • Mahler: Section 3 marker to the end
  • No Beethoven
Bass
  • D melodic minor scale
  • Beethoven: all without repeat
  • Wagner: All
  • No Saint-Saëns
 
Chairperson
Mariah Barnett
Lawrence HS
1901 Louisiana St
Lawrence, KS 66046
w: 785-832-5050
Important Dates - HS Orchestra
Sep. 11, 2023 - Mon
Business Dinner & Meeting
Lawrence HS
5:15 PM - New Teachers
6:00 PM - Dinner
6:45 PM - Business Meeting
Oct. 11, 2023 - Wed
Audition Registration Deadline — HS Orchestra
$10 per audition
Nov. 3, 2023 - Fri
LATE Audition Registration Deadline — HS Band, HS Jazz Band, HS Orchestra
$20 per audition
Nov. 4, 2023 - Sat
FINAL Audition Registration Deadline — HS Choir, HS Band, HS Jazz Band, HS Orchestra
$50 per audition
Nov. 4, 2023 - Sat
District HS Honor Group Auditions
Eudora HS & Eudora MS
Dec. 2, 2023 - Sat
Mini-Conventions
Choir: Topeka HS
Orchestra: Topeka-Washburn Rural HS
Band: Topeka-Seaman HS

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