I want to play Stravinsky Petrushka for college auditions am I stupid?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I think I may have asked this question before.  I searched it but I couldnt find any.  Okay, so I was thinking that for college auditions, I might wanna play one of the three movements from Petrushka.

I have the sheet music, but I really haven't had much time to look at it, and my teacher didn't really say anything about it.  I showed it to him and asked him if I could play it and he was like, "cool story bro", and then we started our lesson.    

However, I have listened to it while reading the score, and it's kinda difficult to follow with three staves to read.  So far I think that the third movement is BY FAR the most difficult movement to play.  I think the first is easiest but unfortunately it's shortest and I don't wanna have my audition repertoire to be too short so I'm thinking of trying out the second movement.  So far I can only play the opening of the first movement.  I wanna wait until I get my other audition pieces on lock then start Petrushka later when my technique improves because APPARENTLY, this is the cream of the crop, the hardest of the hard, the big kid in the playground, the bully who steals everyone's lunch money.  This piece is said to have made the piano gods such as Cziffra to cringe at the thought of playing this monstrosity!  

Yeah yeah, I've heard it all, but I've seen an 11 year old play the whole thing rather well.

So ANYWAYS, could someone describe WHY and how difficult are each of the movements individually?  I don't mean how difficult this piece is as a whole, but as movements.  Because talking about one Chopin etude isn't the same thing as talking about all 24 as a whole right?

[symphonicdance]

Technically, the first is less difficult than the second, which in turn is less difficult than the third.  However, even producing the quality forte, dance-like sound in the first movement is no easy.  I don't even think of gambling with this piece in my fellowship exam.  However, Stravinsky's Serenade in A is relatively easier, technically.  Perhpas it's only my personal problems: I don't have big hands, and I'm 40+ years old (not practising music as my career).

How long a 20th century / contemp piece do you need?  5+ minutes?

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Technically, the first is less difficult than the second, which in turn is less difficult than the third.  However, even producing the quality forte, dance-like sound in the first movement is no easy.  I don't even think of gambling with this piece in my fellowship exam.  However, Stravinsky's Serenade in A is relatively easier, technically.  Perhpas it's only my personal problems: I don't have big hands, and I'm 40+ years old (not practising music as my career).

How long a 20th century / contemp piece do you need?  5+ minutes?

I think probably five minutes.  I've heard that auditions are like an hour long, but then my teacher said that an undergraduate audition is only about  15-20 minutes.  So 5+ is probably fine.