For Saxophone Choir-There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York/It Ain’t Necessarily So/Summertime/I Got Plenty o' Nuttin’ is a song from the American opera Porgy and Bess composed in 1935 by George Gershwin (1898-1937) to a libretto by DuBose Heyward and his brother Ira Gershwin after Heyward’s novel Porgy - a story about the love between the crippled negro beggar Porgy and the girl Bess in the city of Charleston in South Carolina. The première - not a huge success - took place on 10 October 1935 in New York.With his opera Gershwin wanted to gain recognition as a composer of classical music. Incidentally he demanded that all parts were sung by black performers; only a few unimportant parts without sung lyrics were allowed to be performed by white actors. This rule still applies: Gershwin has stated in the terms of his will that only black people were allowed stage the opera.Porgy & Bess has become popular only after Gershwin’s death. In 1959 a wonderful film was made; the soundtrack won a Grammy Award. The work is not very often performed possibly because of the difficulty of finding a whole cast of black opera singers. However various pieces from the opera are still regularly performed in numerous arrangements.

Par BIZET GEORGES. Musique Instrumentale / Niveau : Cycle 1 / Répertoire / Saxophone

Music Minus One Tenor or Alto Saxophone-For Saxes Only is designed to give the jazz saxophonist (or clarinet or trumpet player) an opportunity to play with a top-flight sax section. Due to the comparative scarcity of big bands today this is the one area in which young players sorely lack experience. While working with this album you will encounter the problems of sight-reading intonation phrasing vibrato unisons subtone and more. These are the same challenges one would face playing with legendary greats Ellington Basie or Goodman. If you haven't had the opportunity to work in a big band playing with this album should give you an idea of that special thrill one gets when the blend is perfect and everybody'sswinging together! Includes printed solo parts for E-flat and B-flat instruments and a compact disc featuring complete recordings (with alto sax as the solo instrument) and a second performance of the accompaniments only. Performed by Bob Wilber tenor sax Hilton Jefferson alto sax Accompaniment: The Bob Wilber All-Stars: Bob Wilber tenor sax Hilton Jefferson alto sax Jerome Richardson alto sax Seldon Powell tenor sax Danny Bank baritone sax Dick Wellstood piano George Duvivier bass Panama Francis drums

Après la publication de Adolphe Sax album consacré aux premiers solos caractéristiques du temps d?Adolphe Sax, ce second volume propose un travail similaire et retrace le parcours du saxophone du commencement en 1840 jusqu?au 20e siècle naissant. Au-delà de la lecture des partitions proposées, cet ouvrage sera un outil pédagogique indispensable pour élargir la connaissance de l?instrument de Sax, bien avant la popularité qu?on lui connaît avec le jazz, la pop etc. Saxophonistes, professeurs, élèves, musicologues et amateurs de saxophone apprécieront certains solos, mélodies rares voire inconnues, les caractéristiques de l?écriture de l?époque propres à l?instrument et l?utilisation qu?en ont fait les compositeurs selon les contextes musicologiques, historiques et esthétiques. Contenu BERG Alban : Lulu symphonische stücken - CAPLET André : Impression d?automne - CRAS Jean : Demain - INDY Vincent d' : Poème des rivages - DUKAS Paul : L'ondine et le pêcheur - FRANCK César : Hulda et les pêcheurs - HOLST Gustav : Suites : HURE Jean : Concertstuck et Andante - KASTNER Georges : Le dernier Roi de Juda -LOEFFLER Charles-Martin : Ballade carnavalesque - MAGNARD Albéric : 1re Symphonie - MASSENET Jules : La valse de Lahore - MAYEUR Louis : Grande fantaisie de concert - MOUSSORGSKY Modeste : Le vieux château PUCCINI Giacomo : La sui monti dell'est de Turandot - RAVEL Maurice : Boléro - ROBJOHN William : Introduction et Thème - ROSSINI Gioacchino : La corona d?Italia - SOUSA John Philip : The Stars and Stripes Forever

A selection of Christmas Carols and Traditional Classics with Backing CD. This instrumental series is arranged for Flute Trumpet Clarinet Alto Saxophone Tenor Saxophone Horn in F and Trombone. The separate instrumental parts can be used alone with the CD or in any combination.

Gordon Lewin's collection of pieces for saxophone Grades 3 to 6 combines a popular mix of original pieces arrangements and traditional songs from Bach Paganini and Rossini to folksongs. Selected for the ABRSM Alto and Tenor Saxophone examinations grades 4 5 and 6.

A lovely lazy summer feel to this easy arrangement for tenor saxophone and piano.Grade: 2