Audition Material

Audition Set 1 is the required material for 2009 ASO Orchestra auditions to be held Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008.

SET 1   2008-2009

Click on excerpts to hear music (file format is mp3).

 

VIOLIN

            Printed music for excerpts (file format is pdf; Acrobat Reader is required)

 

            Scales:       

G Major 3 octaves

E melodic minor 3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Mozart:  Symphony No. 29, 4th movement, beginning to measure 22

Strauss:  Overture to "Die Fledermaus," Tempo di Valse, measures 122-147

Tchaikovsky:  Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, 1 after Q to R

VIOLA

            Printed music for excerpts (file format is pdf; Acrobat Reader is required)

            Scales:

E flat Major, 3 octaves

D melodic minor, 3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Bruckner:  Symphony No. 4 in E flat Major, Romantic, 2nd movement, Letter C (measure 51) to letter D (measure 67)

Mozart: Overture to "The Magic Flute,"  measure 27 to measure 39

Bach:  Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat Major, 3rd movement, measure 38 to measure 53

CELLO

            Printed music for excerpts (file format is pdf; Acrobat Reader is required)

            Scales:

G Major, 3 octaves

D melodic minor, 3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

R. Strauss:  “Ein Heldenleben,” opus 40, measure 1 to measure 13

Brahms:  Symphony No. 2, opus 73, 2nd movement, measure 1 to measure 15

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 5, opus 67, 3rd movement, measure 141 with upbeat to measure 177

BASS

            Printed music for excerpts (file format is pdf; Acrobat Reader is required)

            Scales: 

D Major, 2 octaves

b  minor, 2 octaves

            Orchestra Excerpts

Mozart:  Symphony No. 40, 1st movement, measure 114 to 138

Mahler: Symphony No. 1, SOLO from 3rd movement, measure 3 to 8
Brahms: Symphony No. 1, 4th movement, measure 94 to 115

 

 

SET TWO  2009-2010

 

VIOLIN
 

            Scales:

D Major  3 octaves

B melodic minor  3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Verdi:  Overture to "La Forza del Destino,"  measure 9 to measure  43

Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No. 4, 4th movement  A to 12 before B

Mozart:  Overture to "The Magic Flute,"  measure 16 to measure 58

VIOLA

            Scales:

F Major  3 octaves

C melodic minor  3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Mendelssohn:  Symphony No. 40 in A major, opus 90, 2nd movement, pick up to measure 4 to measure 27

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, opus 55, 3rd movement, beginning to measure 28

Glinka:  Overture to “Russlan and Ludmilla,” beginning to measure 45

CELLO

            Scales:

A Major  3 octaves

C melodic minor  3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 5, 2nd movement, measure 1 to measure 10, measure 49 to measure 59, measure 98 to measure 106

Brahms:  Symphony No. 3, opus 90, 1st movement,  measure 187 to measure 201

BASS

            Scales:             D Major  2 octaves

                                      B melodic minor  2 octaves

 

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Tchaikovsky:  Francesca da Rimini, beginning to measure 17

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 5, 3rd movement, measures 140 to 177

Tchaikovsky:  1802 Overture, Measures 116 to 138

  

SET THREE  2010-2011

 

VIOLIN
 

            Scales:

C  Major  3 octaves

A melodic minor  3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Borodin:  Polevetsian Dances, Dance No. 17,  measure 31 to measure 40

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 1, 1st movement,  measure 13 to measure 45

Glinka:  Overture to “Russlan and Ludmilla,”  measure 21 to measure 51

VIOLA

            Scales:

D Major  3 octaves

F melodic minor  3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Berlioz:  Overture to “Roman Carnival,”  measure 37 to measure 53

Mozart:  Symphony No. 40 in g minor, K. 550, 1st movement,  measure 105 to measure 122

Brahms:  Symphony No. 1 in c minor, opus 68, 1st movement,  measure 321 to measure 343

CELLO

            Scales:

E flat Major  3 octaves

G melodic minor  3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Mendelssohn:  A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, Scherzo, movement, measure 296 to measure 323  (top line)

Mendelssohn:  Overture to Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), measure 1 to measure 21  (top line)

Brahms:  Symphony No. 3, opus 90, 2nd movement,  measure 1 to measure 16

BASS

            Scales:

E Major  3 octaves

C sharp melodic minor  2 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Bach:  Magnificat, No. 1,   beginning to C

Bach:  Magnificat, No. 3,  entire movement

Bach:  Magnificat, No. 4 , entire movement       

           

SET FOUR  2011-2012

 

VIOLIN

 

            Scales:

Bb Major  3 octaves

G melodic minor  3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Mendelssohn:  Symphony No. 3, 1st movement, violin 1, measure 63 to measure 98

Smetana:  Overture to "The Bartered Bride," violin 2, beginning to measure 29

Mozart:  Symphony No. 35, 1st movement, violin 1, measure 15 to measure 37

VIOLA

            Scales:

C Major  3 octaves

E melodic minor  3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 5 in c minor, 2nd movement,  measure 1 to measure 10  and measure 99 to measure106

Brahms:  Variations on "A Theme of Haydn," variation V, beginning of variation measure 206  to measure 226

Smetana:  Overture to “The Bartered Bride,” beginning to measure 78

CELLO

            Scales:

D Major  3 octaves

E melodic minor  3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Franz von Suppe:  Overture to “Poet and the Peasant," cello solo measure 1 to measure16

Brahms:  Symphony No. 1, 4th movement, measure 94 to measure 111

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 9, 4th movement, measure 211 to measure 264

BASS

            Scales:

G Major  3 octaves

E melodic minor  3 octaves

            Orchestral Excerpts:

Richard Strauss:  Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks,  No. 35 to 3 before No. 38

Von Weber:  Der Freischutz,  Letter E to 5 before letter H

Schubert:  Symphony No. 7 in C major, 4th movement

Tuning down to the low e-flat in the von Weber selection is not expected.   However, if a student wishes to tune down, it is acceptable.

 

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Performance

The Missouri All state Orchestra will rehearse during the MMEA convention in January at Tan-Tar-A. Students will arrive on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009 with the registration at 5:00 p.m. and the first rehearsal at 7:30 pm. Seating auditions for strings will occur during the first evening rehearsal. The concert will be Saturday afternoon, January 31. The concert is open to the public. Admission is free.

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Conductor

Steven McDonald

          Originally from Reading, Massachusetts, Steven McDonald is a graduate of the Boston University School for the Arts, the Sweelinck Conservatory of Amsterdam, and is currently completing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts. His teachers have included Brian Priestman, Nicholas Uljanov, Joop van Zon, and Thomas Dunn for conducting, Henk van Eeuwijck and Leo Abbott for piano, Craig Rutenberg for vocal coaching, and George Faxon for organ.

          Mr. McDonald has served on the faculties of the University of Kansas, Boston University, and Gordon College, and has also served as music director of Musica Modus Vivendi of Harvard University. While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was founder and music director of the Summer Opera and Independent Activities Period orchestra, conductor of the Chamber Orchestra, and the Gilbert & Sullivan Players. At the University of Kansas, Mr. McDonald served as assistant conductor of the K.U. Symphony, was founder and music director of the Camerata, and conducted the K.U. Opera productions of Candide and The Magic Flute. In addition, he is currently the music director of the Lafayette Swing Orchestra, a "society Orchestra" modeled after the great hotel orchestras of the 1930's, based in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

          In June 2007 Steven McDonald was appointed music director of the Lawrence, Kansas Chamber Orchestra, having previously served as guest conductor in 2003. Under his guidance, this group has transformed itself from a mixed-seating ensemble into a professional chamber orchestra, whose season now includes a mid-winter baroque program (conducted from the harpsichord), and a finale concert featuring winners of the orchestra's youth competition.

          Mr. McDonald currently serves as Assistant Professor Music and Director of Orchestra Activities at Ottawa University a private liberal arts college in Ottawa, Kansas.

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Missouri All State Orchestra History

2008

 

Dr. Paul Phillips, Conductor

Academic Festival Overture,  Brahms

Missouri River Songs and Dances, Commissioned work by John Cheetham

Night on Bald Mountain, Moussorgsky

 

2007

 

Dr. Mark Parker, Conductor

An Outdoor Overture, Copland

Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, Op. 23A, Barber

Polovtsian Dances from the Opera Prince Igor, Borodin

 

2006
 

Dr. David Barg, conductor

Overture to Candide - Leonard Bernstein

Scherzo Fantastique - Commissioned Work by Michael McLean

Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy - Peter I. Tchaikovsky

2005  
 

Dr. Timothy Russell, Conductor

Carnival Overture - Dvorak

Love Duet from Merrymount - Hanson

An American in Paris - Gershwin

2004  

Margery Deutsch, conductor

Cappriccio Bohemian, OP 12, Rachmaninoff

Out of Adullum, commissioned work by Kirt Mosier

Symphony No 5, Finale, Shostakovich

 

2003  

Ken Kiesler, conductor

Academic Festival Overture, Brahms

Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky

 

2002 
 
Emily Freeman Brown, conductor

Pines of Rome, Respighi

Mysterious Mountain ( Symphony #2), Hovhaness

Commissioned work by Chris Theofanidis

 

2001  

Alastair Willis, conductor

Symphonic Dances, from West Side Story, Bernstein

Adagio for Strings, Barber

Prelude to Die Meistersingers, Wagner

2000   

Dr. Robert Culver, conductor

Rienzi Overture, Wagner

Missouri Dreamscape, commissioned work by Andrew List

Komm Susser Tod, Bach

Soirrees Musicales, Britten

 

1999 

Dr. Harry Dunscombe, Conductor 
Symphonie Nr. 6, Opus 68 in F Major ("The Pastorale Symphony"), Ludwig van Beethoven

 

1998 

Dr Gerald Fischbach, Conductor 
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, J. S. Bach/Leopold Stokowski 
Colas Breugnon Overture, Op. 24,  Dimitri Kabelevsky 
Waltz from Sleeping Beauty, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 
Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34, Edvard Grieg 
Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila, Camille Saint-Saens

 

1997 

Dr. William LaRue Jones, Conductor 
Overture to LaForza del Destino, Giuseppe Verdi 
Octet, Op. 20, Allegro moderato, Felix Mendelssohn 
Horizons, Robert Charles Howard (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1997 Missouri All-State Orchestra)
Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Finale, Vassili Kalinnikov

 

1996 

Dr. William LaRue Jones, Conductor 
Divinum Mysterium, W. Thomas McKenney (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1996 Missouri All-State Orchestra) 
Aria (Air from Overture No. 3 in D Major), J. S. Bach/Stokowski 
Symphony No. 5, Op. 47, Allegro non Troppo, Dimitri Shostakovich

 

1995

Dr. Robert Gillespie, Conductor 
Festival Overture, Op. 96, Dimitri Shostakovich 
Three Binghams for String Orchestra, John Cheetham (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1985 Missouri All-State Orchestra; published by Shawnee Press) 
Symphony No. 5, Op. 64, Finale, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

 

1994

Kenneth Andrews, Conductor
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80, Johannes Brahms
Concertino #3 for String Orchestra, Samuel Adler (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1994 Missouri All-State Orchestra)
Firebird Suite, (Infernal Dance & Berceuse and Finale), Igor Stravinsky

 

1993

Sandra Dackow, Conductor
String Sinfonie No. 9 in C (Grave-Allegro), Felix Mendelssohn
Rhythmic Variations on Two Ancient Hymns, Howard Hanson
Revelation, Kirt N. Mosier (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1993 Missouri All-State Orchestra)
St. Paul's Suite, Gustav Holst
 

1992

Michael Allard, Conductor

Serenade for Strings, Tchaikovsky

Overture for Strings, Paul Whear (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1992 Missouri All-State Orchestra)

 

1991

Niklaus Wyss, Conductor 
Three Divertimenti, No. 1 in D Major, K. 136, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Invocation and Exultation 1791-1991, Michael Horvit (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1991 Missouri All-State String Orchestra, Financial assistance provided by the Missouri Arts Council)
Serenade in G Major, K. 525 ("Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

1990

Stephen Shipps, Conductor 
Adagio and Fugue, K. 546, W. A. Mozart 
Two Tableaux, Prairie Vista, Festival, Walter J. Halen (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1990 Missouri All-State String Orchestra, Financial assistance provided by the Missouri Arts Council) 
Holberg Suite, Op. 40, Edvard Grieg

 

1988

Paul Vermel, Conductor
Chacony in G minor for strings, Henry Purcell
Overture: "Our Creed is Our Shield," Claude T. Smith (Commissioned by the Missouri Chapter of ASTA for the 1981 Missouri All-State Orchestra)
Divertimento in C major, K. 157, W.A. Mozart
String Triptych, Ulysses Kay
Pizzicato Polka

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Members of the 2009 Missouri All State Orchestra. 

Names are in alphabetical order by section, with alternates listed at the

end of each section. Each student's school and teacher are listed. 

First Violin
(in alphabetical order)

Second Violin

(in alphabetical order)

Viola

    (in alphabetical order)