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  1. Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!paperboy.osf.org!osf.org!dbrooks
  3. From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
  4. Subject: Re: Saxophone, use of
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.175337.15347@osf.org>
  6. Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: Open Software Foundation
  8. References:  <1992Dec22.095212.26084@ulci20.unil.ch> <1992Dec22.163835.13365@osf.org>
  9. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:53:37 GMT
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  11.  
  12. I (David Brooks) write:
  13. | And works like Rhapsody in Blue (the small-orchestra version), and
  14.  
  15. Actually, thinking of "versions", another feature of being around
  16. high-school orchestras is having to accommodate saxophones (generally,
  17. it's hard to say no to an aspiring member).  Many of the school-level
  18. arrangements of classical music have optional sax parts.  The purist in
  19. me shuddered, but I had a wonderful player who took the sax parts when
  20. they were there, read the bassoon parts when they weren't, and provided
  21. a welcome thickening to the lower parts of the texture.
  22.  
  23. He was killed by a drunk driver two years ago today.  Rest in peace, Chris.
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