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- From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- Subject: Re: Saxophone, use of -
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.163835.13365@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1992Dec22.095212.26084@ulci20.unil.ch>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:38:35 GMT
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- jwenger@ulci06.unil.ch () writes:
- |
- | Friends and I were chating about music in general, and saxophones in
- | particular. No one could mention a piece of classical music, orchestral,
- | chamber or other, where one or more sax were used. Can you?
-
- Who keeps the archives of this group? :-) (including unkind comments by
- Walter Piston, and an argument between me and JAC on the use of the
- instrument in...)
-
- Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Billy Budd
- Ravel: BolΘro, as well as the Pictures already mentioned
- Bizet: seemed to like the sax, especially L'ArlΘsienne
- Vaughan Williams: Symphony #8 (a full set of 3)
- Bernstein: several, nice solo in On The Town
- Walton: Faτade (small chamber group)
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- And works like Rhapsody in Blue (the small-orchestra version), and
- probably numerous "modern" pieces.
-
- Piston's ill-tempered dismissal is due to the alleged difficulty of
- making the instrument blend with the rest of the orchestra. It's safest
- to write solos for it. My argument with Jon stemmed from the bad
- balance *I've* always heard in the first movement of the Britten and the
- Pastorale from the Bizet.
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