Symphonic Audition 2021 FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY Percussion 1. Applicants are to play one solo on xylophone and all excerpts. 2. Five excerpts (Extended bars of rests do not need to be counted exactly). Excerpt 1a from Symphony no. 9, 1 st movement by L. van Beethoven on timpani: m. 513-547. Excerpt 1b from The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra by B. Britten on timpani.