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Article: MUSIC
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 10, 1994
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Is that distant rumble the sound of Adolphe Sax turning in his
grave? Sax, who died 100 years ago last week, intended his
saxophone as part of the symphony orchestra, but during his
lifetime, notwithstanding the work of one or two imaginative
colourists, it was seen as a sport, a hybrid with aberrant
characteristics.
Now, after jazz and rhythm and blues have blazed a trail,
compsers are more willing to use the instrument. As a result, a
player like John Harle, allying fluid technique with the utmost
discipline, is slowly building up a repertoire of sax concertos. On
Tuesday evening, at St John's Smith Square, Harle gave the London
premiere of one of the more recent examples, Michael Nyman's ...