At 4:28 PM -0500 1/29/10, Andrew Stiller wrote:
In the orchestra, I would go so far as to say that a complete sax section (3 players) has become standard for most composers these days--John Adams comes immediately to mind, but he is far from alone.
That sounds like an important step forward, Andrew, suggesting that orchestral saxophone may be beginning to come out of the jazz closet. But there's a significant difference between living composers including saxes in their orchestral scores--which is certainly their privilege--and orchestras having regular, permanent chairs for professional sax specialists, and I suspect that THAT is where things are going to lag behind. Being on an orchestra manager's depth chart for occasional hiring is not at all the same as having a regular contract and a regular chair.
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