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You might check out "Raindance" by Alice Gomez. It is in between "Yellow After the Rain" and "Mexican Dances" in difficulty. I think you could learn a lot of the piece away from the marimba, especially if you have a piano or electronic keyboard to practice shaping some of the phrases and listening to them.
This piece will give you ample opportunity to show your musicianship and phrasing, musical shaping skills and it has a really nice overall musical line that you can shape.
When you are auditioning for ensemble placement, the jury is probably looking for how well you play the piece you have prepared, not so much exactly what that piece is. Usually when I'm on this kind of jury, I expect note accuracy, the performance to follow all the dynamics and musical instructions on the printed page, PLUS an excellent shaping of the small and large phrases that the performer has to bring to the performance. You can do all these things nicely with this piece.
I think your instinct to go to a less demanding piece because of your limited practice time is a good idea.
Good luck with your audition!
-------- Rebecca Kite
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