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AUDITIONS AND REHEARSALS New members of the Delaware County Youth Orchestra are selected by auditions held each spring. Qualifications for admission are outstanding musical ability and the desire and dedication required to perform as an orchestral musician. Weekly rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings from September through April at Newtown Square Presbyterian Church. In addition to regular rehearsals, sectional master classes are coached by professional musicians each semester. Auditions for new members for the 2008-2009 season will take place onthe following dates: *Thursday, May 8, 2008, beginning at 3:30 pm *Saturday, May 10, 2008, beginning at 10:00 am After April 1, audition appointments may be made by calling Mrs. Liem at 610-642-3209 or Mrs. Hume at 610-896-6536. Auditions will take place at DCYO's regular rehearsal facility at Newtown Square Presbyterian Church, 3600 Goshen Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073. See driving directions below. DCYO AUDITIONS WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS: 1. PREPARED PIECE: Students should bring 4 minutes of prepared music that demonstrates both technical proficiency and lyrical ability. Students may choose to prepare 2 short selections that are no longer than 4 minutes total (one piece that is technical and one that is lyrical), if one piece cannot adequately demonstrate both styles. Prepared music may be taken from standard solo literature for your instrument, standard orchestral excerpts, or in some cases from advanced etudes. School ensemble selections (i.e. music from your school band concert) are not appropriate for this audition. 2. SCALES: Students will be asked to play 1 or 2 major scales chosen by the audition committee. Students may choose the tempo and manner in which the scales are played. Multiple octave scales are expected as appropriate for each instrument. The audition committee can choose any major scale up to 5 sharps and 5 flats. Please refer to the PMEA District 12 guidelines for information specific to each instrument. (Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 12 Auditions - Scales) 3. SIGHT-READING: Students will be asked to sight-read a short excerpt provided during the audition. The sight-reading excerpt is used to gauge a student's ability to quickly process and execute musical notation. Students will be evaluated based on accuracy of notes and rhythms as well as ability to follow musical indications (i.e., dynamics, etc.) 4. PERCUSSION: Percussionists should prepare a short excerpt on both snare drum and xylophone. Etudes, portions of solo literature or orchestral excerpts are all acceptable. Percussionists will be asked about their experience with other instruments (timpani, auxiliary percussion) but will not be required to play them at the audition. ***ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR WINDS/BRASS*** - Flutes should play or be willing to learn to play piccolo. - Oboes should play or be willing to learn to play English horn. - Clarinets should be able to transpose parts in A, or own an A clarinet. - Horns should be able to transpose. - Trumpets should be able to transpose. It is recommended that students own both Bb and C trumpets. - Trombones should be able to read bass clef and tenor clef, and be willing to learn alto clef. For information on auditions for the Delaware Valley Young Musicians' Orchestra, click here. |
| DIRECTIONS TO DELAWARE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA'S REHEARSAL FACILITY |
Newtown Square Presbyterian Church, 3600 Goshen Road, Newtown Square, PA 19073 (near the corner of Route 252 and Goshen Road). From the intersection of the Blue Route (476) and West Chester Pike (Route 3) at Exit 9 of the Blue Route: Travel west on Route 3 West Chester Pike toward Newtown Square. Newtown Square Presbyterian Church is approximately four miles from this point. Count three or four traffic lights past the Blue Route to Route 320. Keep going past it. Continue on Route 3 West Chester Pike for seven more traffic lights to Blockbuster Video (on the right). Keep going past it. (You are now in Newtown Square.) Continue on Route 3 for two more lights, looking for Hill's Seafood on your right. After Hill's Seafood, MAKE A RIGHT onto Route 252. (This is the second light past Blockbuster Video.) Travel north on Route 252 for one-half to three-fourths of a mile to the third traffic light. This is Goshen Road. TURN RIGHT onto Goshen Road. Go past the first driveway to the church (labeled "Church Entrance"). Turn right into the second driveway to the church complex (labeled "Nursery School"), and make an immediate right again, and then an immediate left to enter the lower parking lot. Enter the building from the lower parking lot through the doors to the "Social Hall," which is the main DCYO rehearsal area. (If the lower lot is full, please follow the driveway to the upper lot in front of the church and park there, walking around the outside of the building to enter at the lower level in the back of the church complex.) For further directions, go to http://www.nspconline.org/directions.htm |
Delaware County Youth Orchestra
PO Box 143
Media, PA 19063
PO Box 143
Media, PA 19063