In the early 1840s, Belgian instrument maker and musician Adolphe Sax set out to create a new sound for orchestras and ...

Many of today’s symphony orchestra instruments have been around for centuries. The violin, for instance, dates to the 1500s and as a result has an enormous repertoire spanning 450 years. The saxophone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As autumn unfolds, our fall season at Newport Classical continues to flourish. It remains a privilege to present extraordinary ...

Unlike, say, violinists, classical saxophonists have never been able to count on seats in orchestras, slots in recital series, chairs in chamber groups, or even centuries of repertoire to explore. In ...

Since the 1840s, when the saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax, the wind instrument named after him has become a key component of jazz groups ranging from big bands to small combos. It was also a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Vivien Schweitzer THE saxophone, invented by the Belgian-born instrument maker Adolphe Sax around 1840, has seldom achieved prominence in the ...

University of South Carolina saxophone professor Dr. Clifford Leaman was honored this spring, becoming a lifetime honorary ...

An event-record 1,300 classical and jazz saxophonists — professional and amateur — are on the University of Illinois campus for the 2014 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial National Conference, ...

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 ...