Red Clay Saxophone Quartet
Sample Concert Programs
Sax Appeal:
Don Agustin by Horacio Salgán/arr. Rutty
Tango Virtuoso by Thierry Escaich
Hyperlinks by Alejandro Rutty
Wapango by Paquito D'Rivera
Motherless Child Variations by Perry Goldstein
Spain by Chick Corea/arr. Michael Burns
Selections from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein/arr. Boatman
Veracruz! a medley of Mexican folk tunes
Deep Roots and Red Clay (a concert of twentieth century greats with connections to the distant past):
Suite Française by Francis Poulenc/arr. Jonas
Forssell
Alaric I or II by Gavin Bryars
O Waly Waly by Ben Johnston
Six Bagatelles by György Ligeti
Every Thing Must Go by Martin Bresnick
French Connections:
Suite Française by Francis Poulenc/arr. Jonas Forssell
Premier Quatuor by Jean Baptiste Singelée
Variations sur Ah! Vous dirai-je Maman by W. A. Mozart/arr. Boatman
Quatuor by Pierre-Max Dubois
Tango Virtuoso by Thierry Escaich
Composers of the Carolinas:
O Waly Waly by Ben Johnston
Off on a Tangent by Ronald Parks
Prodigal Child by John Fitz Rogers
Alley Dance by Ben Boone
Saxophone Quartet by Alejandro Rutty
Maximum-Minimum (an engaging,
beautiful program of post-minimal repertoire):
New York Counterpoint (1985/1995) by Steve Reich/tr. Susan Fancher
Duke Meets Mort by Robert Carl
Alaric I or II by Gavin Bryars
Four5 by John Cage
July by Michael Torke
Never Too Tango! (in collaboration
with the Lorena Guillén Tango Duo):
Spend an evening reveling in the
glorious tango music of Argentina!
Tikvah: A multi-media oratorio by Burton Beerman for saxophone
quartet, soprano voice, dancer and video, based on memoirs of Philip Markowicz, Torah scholar and Holocaust survivor
Tikvah Suite: A 20-minute suite of music from the oratorio, for saxophone
quartet and orchestra
