SPHINX ORCHESTRAL PARTNERS AUDITIONS (SOPA) Excerpt Competition
2025 Repertoire List
Tuba Repertoire List
Round 1: October 28th, 2024, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET
Round 2: January 22nd, 2025 in Detroit, MI
I. SOLO
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - Concerto in F minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra
Beginning to [5]
II. ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS
BERLIOZ - King Lear
3 after [21] to 8 after [22]
BERLIOZ - ‘Hungarian March’ from The Damnation of Faust
[4] to end
BERLIOZ - Symphonie Fantastique
Mvt. IV: [56] to 3 before [58]
Mvt. V: [84] to end
BRAHMS - Symphony No. 2 in D major, op. 73
Mvt. IV: [O] to 14 before [P]
Mvt. IV: [P] to end
BRUCKNER - Symphony No. 7 in E major
Mvt. IV: [P] to [S]
HOLST - The Planets
Mvt. IV, Jupiter: mm. 16-28
Mvt. IV, Jupiter: 3 after [11] to m. 274
MAHLER - Symphony No. 1 in D major
Mvt. III: 4 before [3] to 3 before [5]
MAHLER - Symphony No. 5 in D minor
Mvt. III: 13 before [16] to [17]
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MENDELSSOHN - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Overture: m. 545 to [H]
RESPIGHI - Fountains of Rome
1 before [11] to 4 after [16]
STRAUSS - Also Sprach Zarathustra
6 before [49] to 5 before [51]
STRAUSS - Till Eulenspiegel lustige Streiche, Op. 28
[13] to 1 before [14]
WAGNER - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Overture: mm. 158-188
WAGNER - Lohengrin
Prelude to Act III: [2] to [3]
Prelude to Act III: 7 after [5] to [6]
WAGNER - Ride of the Valkyries
Pickup to 8 before [11] to [12]