Spring 2025 Audition Info
Any student interested in auditioning for ensembles on a string instrument (violin, viola, cello, bass) should email me (we will add audition times for them, and I will make sure they are on our info distribution lists.
Spring Repertoire for Orchestra
Audition excerpts will be chosen from these pieces and sent out 1-2 weeks before the auditions.
Audition Times: Jan 21 & 22, 2025
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Spring concert and repertoire info:
SUNY Fredonia CSO - Spring 2025 Repertoire (subject to change)
Concert 1 – Saturday, March 8, 2025 – International Women’s Day and Sorel Residency w/ Jennifer Higdon
- Jennifer Higdon – blue cathedral (11’)
2[1.2/pic] 2[1.Eh] 2 2 — 4 3 3 1 — tmp+3 — hp — pf/cel — str
perc: crot, marim, tamtam, vib, glock, belltree, szl cym, sus cym, chimes, bd, tomtom, 2tri
8 crystal glasses (played by hns, tbns & tuba); 60-70 Chinese bells (played by most orchestra players; available from publisher). Piano must be prepared (2 screws) for last 7 bars. - (TBD possible other short piece with reduced strings)
- ~ intermission ~
- Florence Price – Symphony No. 3 in C minor (30’)
4[1.2.3.pic] 3[1.2.Eh] 3[1.2.bcl] 2 — 4 3 3 1 — tmp+5 — hp — cel — str perc: bd, cym, sus cym, sd, tri, tambn, tamtam, glock, xyl, chimes, woodblk, cast, sandblks, opt whip
I. Andante; Allegro
II. Andante ma non troppo
III. Juba: Allegro
IV. Scherzo. Finale
Concert 2 – Saturday, May 3, 2025 – Masterworks with Fredonia Choirs and Alumni Soloists
- Franz Joseph Haydn – Te Deum for the Empress Maria Theres, Hob. XIIIc:2 (12’)
1 2 0 2 — 2 3 3 0 — tmp — org — str - Carl Orff – Carmina Burana (65’)
large chorus, small chorus, children's chorus solos STBar, short solos TTTBB
3[1.2/pic.3/pic] 3[1.2.3/Eh] 3[1.2/bcl.3/Ebcl] 3[1.2.cbn] — 4 3 3 1 — tmp+6 — cel, 2pf — str
perc: xyl, cast, ratch, slgh-bells, tri, crot["piatti piccoli"], cym, tamtam, chimes, tambn, bd, 3glock, 2sus cym, 2sd, 2nd tmp - Jordan Sparks, Heidi Schneider, and Justin Staebell, vocalists
Fredonia Elementary School Chorus
SUNY Fredonia Masterworks Chorus
FORTUNA IMPERATRIX MUNDI (Fortune, Empress of the World)
1. O Fortuna
2. Fortune plango vulnera
I. PRIMO VERE (In Springtime)
3. Veris leta facies
4. Omnia Sol temperat
5. Ecce gratum
UF DEM ANGER (On the Green)
6. Tanz
7. Floret silva
8. Chramer, gip die varwe mir
9. Reie
10. Were diu werlt alle min
II. IN TABERNA (In the Tavern)
11. Estuans interius
12. Cignus ustus cantat
13. Ego sum abbas
14. In taberna quando sumus
III. COUR D'AMOURS (The Court of Love)
15. Amor volat undique
16. Dies, nox et omnia
17. Stetit puella
18. Circa mea pectora
19. Si puer com puellula
20. Veni, veni, venias
21. In trutina
22. Tempus est iocundum
23. Dulcissime
BLANZIFLOR ET HELENA (Blanziflor and Helena)
24. Ave formosissima
FORTUNA IMPERATRIX MUNDI (Fortune, Empress of the World)
25. O Fortuna