Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Vivien Schweitzer THE saxophone, invented by the Belgian-born instrument maker Adolphe Sax around 1840, has seldom achieved prominence in the ...

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of its inventor, Adolph Sax - surely the most famous musical-instrument maker Belgium has ever produced - we present 10 of his instrument’s finest classical ...

If you dig the sound of a saxophone (alto, tenor and / or baritone), you've come to the right place. Unless we've miscounted, no less than nineteen saxophonists are present and accounted for on ...

With all of the sudden twists, vertiginous swoops, and conceptual leaps to seemingly unrelated themes that eventually circle back to his initial notion, a conversation with Wayne Shorter can feel a ...

The Colorado Music Festival is a gathering of some of the best orchestral musicians from across the country. Each week throughout the summer, they perform some of classical music's greatest ...

Tokyo-born composer Takashi Yoshimatsu can’t claim the international reputation of compatriots Joe Hisaishi (of Studio Ghibli fame) or Toshio Hosokawa, but that may be changing soon. Among his ...

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This is a spectacular arrangement of one of John Williams' most majestic tunes for the big screen. The saxophone ensemble FIVE SAX has reworked Hedwig's Theme for their tenor, baritone, two altos and ...

“Something Old, Something New: A Celebration” unites family, friends and colleagues for a retrospective about the life of the late composer Randy Hostetler and the 50th wedding anniversary of his ...

Composers have written for some unusual duos — Elliott Carter for bassoon and viola, for instance, or Camille Saint-Saëns for piano and harmonium. But the pairing that will appear at All Souls ...