Repertoire
This piece is based on the third movement of J.S. Bach's Pastorale in F Major.
What is Bozza's Aria?
The distance between the tip of the reed and the tip of the mouthpiece.
What is tip opening?
What is sforzando?
Who is Timothy McAllister?
This was the first instrument to be created by Adolphe Sax as part of the saxophone family.
What is the Baritone Saxophone?
This piece was originally composed up one whole step from the currently published version.
What is Fantasia by Villa-Lobos?
This is a combination of copper and zinc.
What is brass?
Prominent, outward
What is en dehors?
He was the soloist of the United State Navy Band for nearly 30 years.
Who is Dale Underwood?
He was a saxophone virtuoso from the early 1900s known for playing lightning fast melodies on a C melody saxophone.
Who was Rudy Wiedoeft?
This piece was originally composed by Modest Mussorgsky and later orchestrated by Maurice Ravel.
What is Pictures at an Exhibition?
They are the only manufacturer of the Tubax, a contra bass saxophone.
Who is Eppelsheim?
With fire or passion.
What is con fuoco?
He won the Thelonious Monk Competition in 1991, beating both Eric Alexander and Chris Potter.
Who is Joshua Reman?
This legendary line of saxophones first came out in 1954.
What is the Selmer Mark VI?
This is a collection of nine etudes written for solo saxophone by Christian Lauba.
What is Neuf Etudes pour Saxophone?
A prominent synthetic reed maker from Canada.
What is Legere?
Not too much.
What is non troppo?
He taught at the Paris Conservatory until 1968 and is widely regarded as the father of french saxophone playing.
Who is Marcel Mule?
Who is Elise Hall?
This piece was premiered at the most recent NASA biennial conference at Ohio State University.
What is Alexandra Gardner's Time Unfolding?
Cane reeds are made from this species of reed.
What is Arundo Donax?
Lively, fast paced. Literally translated, a joke.
What is scherzo?
He was a high school band director at Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
This piece calls for a sopranino in F, an instrument that has never gone into production.
What is Ravel's Bolero?