Carnegie Hall

Violin

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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, first movement, bars 1–51
Mozart: Symphony No. 39, second movement, bars 1 – 27 (no repeats)

Viola

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, first movement, bars 19–66
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, Variation VII, bars 1–10

Cello

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, second movement, bars 1–16
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8, first movement, beginning–nine measures before [A]

Bass

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Mozart: Symphony No. 40, first movement, pick-up to 115–138
Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, bar 158–end

Flute

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Bizet: Entr'acte from Carmen, beginning–five bars before B
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8, fourth movement, D–E with repeats

Oboe

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, second movement, beginning–21
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, second movement, bars 25–44

Clarinet

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, first movement, bars 54–69 and 153–160
Brahms: Symphony No. 3, second movement, bars 1–22

Bassoon

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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, first movement, bars 1–12; and fourth movement, bars 2–36
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, first movement, bars 105–120

Horn

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Brahms: Symphony No. 1, second movement, horn solo
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4, beginning–six bars after A (Horn I)

Trumpet

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Respighi: Pines of Rome, second movement, offstage solo
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major, solo from [2]–[3]

Trombone

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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, “Hungarian March,” six bars before [20]–two bars after [21] (Trombone II)
Mozart: “Tuba mirum” from Requiem, beginning–A

Bass Trombone

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Wagner: Das Rheingold, scene IV, “Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla”
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, fourth movement, bars 595–626

Tuba

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Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, second movement, [L]–second bar of [P]
Brahms: Symphony No. 2, fourth movement, [O]–14 bars before [P]

Percussion

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Timpani

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, first movement, 18 bars before [S]–end

Marimba

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Snare Drum

Peters: Etude No. 9 from Advanced Snare Drum Studies
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol, third movement, beginning–K (condense rests from 12 to 4 between H and I)

Xylophone

Gershwin: Introduction to Porgy and Bess

Glockenspiel

Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Sleeping Beauty

Tambourine

Tchaikovsky: “Trepak” from The Nutcracker Suite