Merlin Williams Sax Quartet gig tonite

[Merlin]

Late notice, I know!

The Merlin Williams Saxophone Quartet is performing at Gage Park in downtown Brampton, ON tonite, 7-9 p.m.

We're playing a mix of jazz, show tunes, classical and novelty tunes. (It IS a park concert after all!)

The quartet members are: Merlin Williams - soprano, Darryl Orr - alto, Andy Ballantyne - tenor, and Jeff Densham - baritone.

If you can make, please drop by the stage and say hi!

[kcp]

Hey Merlin, I would have loved to go but unfortunately as you say this is last minute. Another time I hope.

Hope the gig went well!!
Take Care

:)

[Merlin]

It WAS a really enjoyable gig.

At one point between numbers, I told the audience one of the cool things about a sax quartet is that you can play just about any kind of music. I casually mentioned that I was working on an arrangement of Mahler's Symphony #2 (The Symphony of a Thousand) for saxophone quartet. ONE guy in the audience starting laughing so hard I thought he was gonna have a heartichoke!

I was really pleased that one of my new arrangements worked really well. About half of the charts we played are things I've put together.

[kcp]

Great! Glad all went well.

As you may know, I've started a saxophone quartet a year ago. We just started doing public performance recently (2 so far) and I'm allways inclined to go see if I can or hear what other quartets are doing. We're not pros, just a bunch of "well accomplished amateur players" but we sound pretty darn decent (so we've been told) Anyway, it's been a fun journey so far.

[TMadness1013]

Merlin - isn't it the 8th symphony that is the "Symphony of 1000" ???

Are you working on the 8th or 2nd?

Very ambitious choice either way!

[Merlin]

In all seriousness...I did do the Landler from Mahler #1 for quartet...

[KSQ]

I did do the Landler from Mahler #1 for quartet...
I'd love to hear that. If you ever get a good recording of it, maybe you could post it on the "post your classical playing" thread?

(A friend of mine did a quartet arrangement of the first mvt. of Beethoven's Fifth. Worked surprisingly well...)