Timothy McAllister is one of the classical saxophone wizards of our day, busy with his own PRISM saxophone quartet and lately becoming the man of the hour for a couple of big jazz-inspired works by ...

There aren't many saxophone concertos that exist, let alone one written for a Black musician, by a Black composer, and commissioned by a group of major orchestras. This month, saxophonist Steven Banks ...

John Adams’ newly recorded Saxophone Concerto opens with a burst of energy -- something the soloist on the recording, Timothy McAllister, enjoys. After a quick string crescendo, McAllister enters, ...

THE BASICS: JoAnn Falletta conducts the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Alberto Ginastera, and with GRAMMY-winning alto saxophonist Timothy McAllister (who ...

An unusual piece makes its UK premiere in this season's BBC Proms - John Adams' Saxophone Concerto. While the concerto is long-established in classical music, the saxophone - 175 years after it was ...

The Colorado Music Festival is a gathering of some of the best orchestral musicians from across the country. Each week throughout the summer, they perform some of classical music's greatest ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Mahler did it. Boulez did it. Beethoven did it, albeit disastrously. But it is still not common to see a composer on the conductor's ...

Saxophone teacher Cynthia Sikes is amazed at the “remarkably mature” saxophone concerto that has been written by 11-year-old Maya Levina of Brighton Beach. Most remarkable is this: Maya doesn’t play ...

Invented for military bands and orchestras, the saxophone has been something of an outsider in classical music. Instead it turned out to be a prominent agent for a very different sound — jazz.

An unusual piece makes its UK premiere in this season's BBC Proms - John Adams' Saxophone Concerto. While the concerto is long-established in classical music, the saxophone - 175 years after it was ...