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  2. Performance Today - Wikipedia

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    Performance Today was created by National Public Radio (NPR), and went on the air in 1987. The program was founded by NPR vice president for cultural programming Dean Boal, who gave Performance Today its name, and who, along with NPR colleagues Doug Bennet, Jane Couch, Ellen Boal, and retired Baldwin Piano Company president Lucien Wulsin, secured the series' initial funding.

  3. Alto saxophone - Wikipedia

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    The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E ♭ , smaller than the B ♭ tenor but larger than the B ♭ soprano .

  4. Soprano saxophone - Wikipedia

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    The soprano saxophone is also sometimes confused with the B ♭ clarinet. The clarinet has a distinctly different timbre, is usually much quieter, can play an augmented fourth lower and is commonly played as much as a fifth higher (though the soprano saxophone can also be played this high with altissimo, it is uncommon for a player to do so ...

  5. List of concert works for saxophone - Wikipedia

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    Duo for soprano saxophone and alto saxophone (1981)—Gordon Jacob Quartet for flute, alto saxophone, guitar and solo percussion (1982)— Kalevi Aho Linker Augentanz (Left-Eye Dance) for 7 (or 11) saxophones, synthesizer and percussion (1983/90)— Karlheinz Stockhausen

  6. Saxophone - Wikipedia

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    The use of the saxophone for more dynamic and more technically demanding styles of playing added incentive for improvements in keywork and acoustic design. Early saxophones had two separate octave keys operated by the left thumb to control the two octave vents required on alto or larger saxophones. Around the turn of the century, mechanisms ...

  7. Orchestra - Wikipedia

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    1 alto clarinet 1 basset horn 1 bass clarinet 1 contra-alto clarinet 1 contrabass clarinet 2–4 bassoons, of which 1 might play 1 contrabassoon (occasionally 1 or more saxophones of various types) 1 soprano saxophone 2 alto saxophones 1 tenor saxophone 1 baritone saxophone 1 bass saxophone Brass 4–8 horns (double horns) in F/B ♭ of which ...

  8. Saxophone technique - Wikipedia

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    Instrumental technique and corresponding pedagogy is a topic of much interest to musicians and teachers and therefore has been subjected to personal opinions and differences in approach. Over the course of the saxophone's performance history, notable saxophonists have contributed much to the literature on saxophone technique.

  9. C soprano saxophone - Wikipedia

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    The C soprano saxophone is a member of the saxophone family, invented in 1846. It closely resembles the more common B ♭ soprano saxophone but is pitched a whole step higher. Unlike most other saxophones, it is not a transposing instrument , a quality it shares with the C melody (also called C tenor) saxophone .

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