The Side Project

Saxophone quartet from Brooklyn, New York, that plays funky original arrangements of popular songs.

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  • Significant Discoveries: Sgambati’s First Symphony– Music to Die For

    Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914) was a disciple and buddy of Liszt, […]woocommerce”> To access this material you need to login to your Insider account, or buy a membership for $5 monthly, or $49 every year. Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts; January 25, 2024– The Boston Symphony Orchestra( BSO )makes 3 significant brand-new statements today.

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  • Penis Hyman’s Scott Joplin Cycle On CD–!

    The ragtime category entered complete flower from the mid-1890s through completion of World War I, led by Scott Joplin (1868-1917), whose 1899 structure Maple Leaf Rag ended up being the design template and basic bearer for traditional through-composed rags. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw newly found interest in Joplin as a major author,…

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  • Verdi: Otello, MET, ’78/Vickers, Scotto

    [A re-post from our archives, in memorial homage to Renata Scotto, February 24, 1934–– August 16, 2023] Jon Vickers was, and stays, the best Peter Grimes and Otello I ever saw on phase. Both of these characters are tortured; critics and the general public mention “overall dedication” however seldom get it with such deep-rooted sensations.…

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  • Hilary Hahn’s Reference-Worthy Ysaÿe

    It’s a cliché to compare an entertainer passing through a big cycle of works to a “journey”, yet Hilary Hahn’s set of Eugène Ysaÿe’s 6 unaccompanied violin sonatas achieves specifically that. Her simple and easy virtuosity, her combination of structure and spontaneity, her broad combination of subtleties, her generous yet regulated and wisely variegated usage…

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  • What To Practise: Transcription II

    What To Practise: Transcription II

    Sonny Stitt’s Solo On “Elora” (Take 2) by J. J. Johnson This is how I found the music of the fantastic jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt… … When I was fresh out of the Royal College, extremely young, therefore really ignorant I set up to have a sax lesson with the famous American saxophonist Bob Mintzer…

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