For your convenience, we have provided sheet music of the required excerpts for NYO2’s 2018 application. If you are unfamiliar with these excerpts, or with performing excerpts in general, we encourage you to listen to recordings of the pieces and bring the excerpts to your private instructors or ensemble leaders for their input.
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Mozart: Symphony No. 39 (first movement: Allegro–C, second movement: 1–8 and 30–38)
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Brahms: Haydn Variations (Variation V and Variation VII)
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Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (second movement: beginning–A, C-downbeat of 55)
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Mozart: Symphony No. 39 (first movement: 14 before A–C)
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Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 (first movement: 328-360)
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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (second movement: 25–4 after [41])
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (first movement: 2 before K–end, second movement: D-E)
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Mozart: Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro (101–123, 139–171)
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Brahms: Symphony No. 3 (third movement: 98-110)
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (“Promenade,” top line only)
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Mozart: Requiem (‘Tuba Mirum”: beginning - A)
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust (“Hungarian March”: 6 before [4]–2 after [5])
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (first movement: 3–6)
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Applicants are required to play one solo on either marimba or xylophone, and all excerpts.
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (fourth movement, P–R, S-U)
Kodály: Movement VI. Entrance of the Emperor and His Court
Richard Hochrainer: Etude No. 47 from Etudes for Timpani Vol. 1
Tchaikovsky: “Trepak” from Nutcracker Suite (five measures after rehearsal C to the end)
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Verdi: Overture to La Forza del Destino (G-H)
At this time we do not anticipate needing keyboard for NYO2 2018.
Lead Donors: Hope and Robert F. Smith; Marina Kellen French and the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation; and Beatrice Santo Domingo.
Leadership support for NYO2 is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Founder Patron: Beatrice Santo Domingo.
With additional funding provided by the Arison Arts Foundation; and Ernst & Young LLP.
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