TMEA 2015: Saxophone Quartet in the 21st Century

Outline

Performance: Cour D’Assises (Alessandrini)
Basics
- Tuning
- Warm-up piece – Performance: Variations on a Theme by Sweelinck (excerpt)
- Vibrato, and the power of straight tone
- Introducing soprano & baritone to young players
Improving Your Chamber Music Program
- Leadership
- Select Appropriate Music
- Breath Together
- Encourage Independence
- Embrace Technology – record yourselves!
- Build Performance Experience
The UIL PML Class I list
- What we recommend and why
- Performance: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Handel)
- Performance: Introduction et Variations sur une Ronde Populaire (Pierné) (excerpt)
21st Century Saxophone Quartet
- The technology
  - Growth of Asian instrument manufacturers
  - Presentation: Andreas Eastman Saxophones
  - Near-perfect synthetic reeds
  - Presentation: Légère Reeds
- The music
  - Saxophonists gravitate towards new, modern music
  - Performance: Turbo Scramjet (Pitts) (excerpt)
  - Performance: Rhapsody for Saxophone Quartet (Ewazen) (excerpt)
  - Performance: Strange Humors (Mackie) (Kevin Luken, djembe)