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PYCO Greece Tour Orchestra - String Seating Audition Excerpts​

Click Here to Upload your Excerpt
(https://www.pyco.org/pyco-orchestra-string-seating-audition-excerpts.html)


Recordings should be video (not audio-only)
Video MUST show the student’s face, entire fingerboard and bow arm. 

Submissions are due by 11:59 PM on Monday, July 1st. 
Please use brackets to mark the excerpt selections below in your music. This is a condensed list of the passages in your music that have been identified as particularly difficult. These selections require dedicated personal practice time and professional help from your teacher. However, remember that at the concert you will play ALL the excerpts! For divisis play the highest part unless otherwise specified.

Violin I: 
  1. All Things Bright and Beautiful, Rutter: B to the end of measure 70
  2. Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Bizet: pick up to m153 to the end
  3. The Best of ABBA: 86 to 130

Violin II:
  1. All Things Bright and Beautiful, Rutter: B to the end of measure 70
  2. Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Bizet: m153 to the end
  3. The Best of ABBA: 86 to 130

Viola: 
  1. Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Bizet: beginning to m17
  2. Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Bizet: m155 to the end
  3. The Best of ABBA: 86 to 130

Cello: 
  1. Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Bizet: beginning to m17
  2. Farandole from L'Arlesienne, Bizet: m84 to m142
  3. The Best of ABBA: 86 to 130
  4. Optional for Solo Audition: Concerto Grosso IV, Corelli (Violoncello Concertato) - Vivace m16 to m42 (end of Vivace)
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