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Here's an orchestral arrangement of one of the greatest pieces in the saxophone and piano literature, Prelude, Cadence et Finale by Alfred Desenclos. The orchestral arrangement is by Russell Peterson. As far as I can tell, he very wisely decided not to tinker at all with the solo part. The...

Hello, I'm 18 I own a Yamaha YTS-62 and I've been playing the tenor sax for about 3 years now I want to upgrade my Otto Link NY mouthpiece to something better. I have bought two from different suppliers because I thought the first one was defective but the other one did not please my ears...

I've been playing Alto for 4 years now, since 4th grade, and am now a high school freshman. I'm second chair, out of eight, in concert band, and also playing a little in our orchestra. All this time I've been using the stock mouthpiece that came with my student model Selmer, and I think it's...

Hi everybody, I'm an Italian saxophonist! In February, I will have an audition to play the "Concertino da Camera" of J.Ibert with the orchestra of my music academy. For the audition, I will play the piece with the piano. Because of the difficulty for the orchestra (there are some challenging...

Well, here goes my 1st post on SOTW :) First off, Hello, my name is Alec and next week I will be auditioning for a music scholarship at one of the top academic private schools in the nation. The audition requirements are the norm, 12 major scales 2 octaves w/ arpeggios, 2 etudes from the 11th...

When do you think that the saxophone will be commonly included in all orchestras? I think that as time goes on more contemporary classical composers will write pieces with saxophone and it will be gradually be included more and more. P.S. this is the best place I found for the thread so tell me...

I'm looking for a saxophone concerto for alto sax and orchestra. Does anyone have any suggestions?