There aren't many saxophone concertos that exist, let alone one written for a Black musician, by a Black composer, and commissioned by a group of major orchestras. This month, saxophonist Steven Banks ...

SANTA CRUZ — All hail the saxophone. Saturday night at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, John Adams’ Saxophone Concerto demonstrated that the instrument most often associated with jazz, ...

John Adams’ newly recorded Saxophone Concerto opens with a burst of energy -- something the soloist on the recording, Timothy McAllister, enjoys. After a quick string crescendo, McAllister enters, ...

THE BASICS: JoAnn Falletta conducts the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Alberto Ginastera, and with GRAMMY-winning alto saxophonist Timothy McAllister (who ...

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 ...

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An unusual piece makes its UK premiere in this season's BBC Proms - John Adams' Saxophone Concerto. While the concerto is long-established in classical music, the saxophone - 175 years after it was ...

Saxophone teacher Cynthia Sikes is amazed at the “remarkably mature” saxophone concerto that has been written by 11-year-old Maya Levina of Brighton Beach. Most remarkable is this: Maya doesn’t play ...

Timothy McAllister is one of the classical saxophone wizards of our day, busy with his own PRISM saxophone quartet and lately becoming the man of the hour for a couple of big jazz-inspired works by ...

An unusual piece makes its UK premiere in this season's BBC Proms - John Adams' Saxophone Concerto. While the concerto is long-established in classical music, the saxophone - 175 years after it was ...