Name: Saxxologie ... a sextet (1984) for six saxophones by Thomas Oboe Lee Performance Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
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Saxxologie ... a sextet (1984) for six saxophones
by Thomas Oboe Lee Performance Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Title Saxxologie ... a sextet (1984) for six saxophones

Artist Thomas Oboe Lee

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Thomas Oboe Lee

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 34

Arrangement Performance Ensemble

Publisher Thomas Oboe Lee

Level 4

Product ID 965409

Genre Jazz Classical Contemporary 20th Century Romantic Period

Product Description

SAXXOLOGIE ... A SEXTET (1984) for 2 soprano, 1 alto, 2 tenor and 1 baritone saxophones

Program notes: Saxxologie ... A Sextet (1984) was written for the Neighborhood Sax Quartet plus 2 guest saxxists when I was still a member of the Boston composer consortium, Composers in Red Sneakers.

The piece however is dedicated to Marilyn Monroe. The sax [sic] symbol of all times!!! It was premiered in Kresge Auditorium at MIT on November 16, 1984, by the YNSQ - Ben Schachter on soprano, Allan Chase on alto, Tom Hall on tenor, Steve Adams on bari - and two guests - Greg Badolato on soprano and George Garzone on tenor. The featured Guest Sneaker at this concert by the Composers in Red Sneaker was John Harbison.

In the fall of 1985, the Sneakers gave a New York debut recital at Symphony Space. Bernard Holland wrote in the Times, "Thomas Oboe Lees Saxxologie ... a sextet for six saxophones distilled the hard-edged sonorities and luscious extended chords of postwar jazz into a hymn of praise to bop."

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