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"…we live in an age in which celebrity is often confused with greatness, in which a genius like Anders Eliasson – who lives as an ‘artistic monk' – can fall completely through the cracks of public awareness. In a sane world, Anders...
Performance opportunities for saxophonists in military bands, university bands, and community bands are widespread and ever-expanding. Studying saxophone excerpts from wind band repertoire can be a beneficial supplement to the...
John Boda (1922-2002) was a highly accomplished pianist, conductor, composer, and professor. His diverse musical talents and eclectic hobbies defined him and influenced countless students, colleagues, friends and family members. During...
Ulrich Gasser is a contemporary Swiss composer who has written music for nearly every instrument. His compositions for orchestra, chamber winds, choral groups, piano, and organ have been performed throughout Europe. His extensive...
It has become common practice among saxophonists to transcribe or arrange music that was originally composed for other instruments. The definition of a transcription is to change the instrument for which the work is written; no octave...
Laurence Sherr is a contemporary American composer with his own unique and recognizable compositional voice. His three chamber works for flute, Dhammapada Verses (1990, rev. 2001) for soprano, flute, percussion, and piano; Journeys...
Edmund von Borck (1906-1944) was admired in Germany during the 1930s as one of the leading young composers of his generation. During World War II, he was inducted into the military and eventually killed on the Italian front. The complex...
The daily production of overtones is not typically thought of as an elementary exercise for young saxophonists; in fact, the subject of overtones does not appear in most widely used method books designed for children. There are however a...
Saxophonists aspiring to perform significant classical repertoire will quickly discover the challenges of high register passages in the third and fourth registers. Many of the early saxophone concerti, namely those composed between 1930...
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