Having suffered through a college degree to get a major in saxophone
performance, we studied classical music only in lessons. There is a lot
of repertoire out there for it. Plus a lot of the Oboe repertoire has
been arranged for saxophone as well. Then there is the whole quartet
aspect. And there are a lot of great pieces Creston, Desenclos, and
Glasnouv to name a few.
Anyhow, it is a ballbuster technique wise. I don't regret doing it at
all. It helps in the jazz playing I do now.
Oh, and I do teach jazz to my Oboe students........they have all pretty
much done the Bolling Suites for Flute that I redid for Oboe ;-)
On 1/28/10 2:45 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
These responses have missed whatever point I probably shouldn't have
bothered trying to make here, and that was that there is so little
significant repertoire for "classical" saxophone, despite the
existence of a number of fine players in that style, that favoring
that style in music departments over the jazz style is the equivalent
of hiring a jazz violinist over a classical one. There is a
disprportion of repertoire and interest. Anyone for a jazz oboe teacher?
Chuck
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