Celebrates new and experimental music for the saxophone right here in the QCA! Randall Hall, John Sampen and Mark Bunce joined Our Quad Cities News with details on the Shockingly Modern Saxophone ...
Most saxophonists play their instruments standing up, but today, Prasant Radhakrishnan is sitting down. His legs are crossed, his back is upright; the saxophone droops like a brass pipe from his mouth ...
When Spain's Ramon Mañas moved to Berlin to study music, he started learning the saxophone. But as the sax is a loud instrument, he couldn't do so when and where he liked. This led to the development ...
It is a tiresome, but unfortunately largely accurate, cliché, that it is impossible to name 10 famous Belgians. Jacques Brel, René Magritte and Hergé may spring fairly easily to mind but a more ...
He’s not your typical Santa who lives at the North Pole. But he brings Christmas cheer all the same only through the power of music. Sax-O-Clause has been a seasonal favorite of the Capital Region for ...
Blowhards: New players such as Brendan Mills, left, and Lewis Evans, centre are bringing the saxophone back in from the cold (Getty/iStock/The Independent) Get the inside track from Roisin O'Connor ...
In November 1814, Col. Andrew Jackson marched on Pensacola, taking the Florida city away from Britain and Spain, while the Congress of Vienna was busy drawing new boundaries after the Napoleonic Wars.
Thomas’s musical career kicked off at 14 years old, when he joined the marching band at Hughes High School and began playing at his local church’s services. “I had a pastor who was very encouraging to ...
The saxophone can be as beautifully melodic as a violin or a clarinet – but the classical music world hasn’t always seen eye to eye with the instrument. We asked saxophonist Jess Gillam to explain why ...