The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Principal Timpani - August and September 2006Required repertoire
Adams
Naive and Sentimental Music
Barber
Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Bartok
Concerto for Orchestra
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Piano Concerto #2
Violin Concerto #2
Beethoven
Symphony #1
Symphony #5
Symphony #7
Symphony #8
Symphony #9
Bernstein
Candide: Overture
Brahms
Symphony #1
Symphony #4
Britten
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Carter
Eight Pieces for Timpani: March Variations for Orchestra
Copland
Appalachian Spring
Elgar
Enigma Variations
Hindemith
Symphonic Metamorphosis
Holst
The Planets (Timpani I)
Janacek
Glagolithic Mass
Mahler
Symphony #5
Symphony #7
Martin
Concerto for Seven Winds, Timpani & Strings
Mozart
Symphony #39
Nielsen
Symphony #4 (Timpani I)
Prokofiev
Symphony #1
Symphony #6
Schuman
New England Triptych
Shostakovich
Symphony #1
Symphony #10
Sibelius
Finlandia
Symphony #1
Symphony #2
R. Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Burleske
Stravinsky
Rite of Spring (Timpani I) add sf on downbeat of 3rd measure of 197
Tchaikovsky
Symphony #4
Symphony #6
Romeo & Juliet Overture - Fantasy (3rd version 1880-81 Kalmus 2181)
Wagner
Gotterdamerung: Trauermarsch (Timpani I & II)
Sight reading may also be required. The Los Angeles Philharmonic tunes to A = 442.
Los Angeles Principal Timpani Audition List -- March 1986
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