Don Freund's EDGE: Saxophone Quartet performance video
For a quick sample check out Blues at 13:40 and Swing Tune at 16:28. But please listen to all of this brilliant performance! For scrolling score and performance video: https://youtu.be/6VQGuNilA2I
Don Freund's EDGE Saxophone Quartet from March 2, 2019 recital, IU Jacobs School of Music, Auer Hall.
Empyrean Saxophone Quartet
Derek Granger, soprano
Catelyn Hawkins, alto
Wesley Taylor, tenor
Paul Cotton, baritone
March 2, 2019/Auer Hall, IU Jacobs School of Music.
EDGE: Saxophone Quartet was commissioned by Allen Rippe for the Memphis Saxophone Quartet. Its ambitious scope is based on the assumption that the medium of the saxophone quartet has been around long enough to aspire to the artistic depth of string quartets by Ligeti, Lutoslawski and Zorn. The "edge" idea is to be felt in all kinds of ways: for examples, the rough edge of torn paper, the gleaming edge of a blade, the piercing edge of a laser, the edge which separates contrapuntal voices, the perceptual edge between conflicting musical styles, the twilight between light and darkness, the thin edge between existence and nothingness. The form of the work is sectional, exploiting various kinds of edges between sections. Here is a little sectional guided tour:
Schizo-intro 00:12; riveting repeating notes 01:33; clockworks 03:00; gigue-motet 05:08; four-voice style-canon stew 07:11; filigree chorale 08:55; blocks of contrasts 11:21; sixteenths city 12:28; blues 13:40; swing-tune 16:28; minimal E-D-G-E 18:23; ghost melody 19:00.
