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 ...

Think of the tens of thousands of Black folks in St. Louis who dress sharp on Sunday mornings and attend churches, houses of worship that also are houses of song. They cherish live music and love to ...

SANTA CRUZ — All hail the saxophone. Saturday night at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, John Adams’ Saxophone Concerto demonstrated that the instrument most often associated with jazz, ...

Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra Ole Edward Antonsen, Trumpet BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Edward Gregson, Composer Clark Rundell, Conductor Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra Nobuya Sugawa, ...

Timothy McAllister deconstructs John Adams' Saxophone Concerto A My first appearance at Cabrillo was in 2007, when I played Jennifer Higdon’s Saxophone Concerto, and I also played in the festival ...

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 podium, and rare to see them do it well. To have John Adams, one of ...

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 ...