Wonderful writing. Thank you for contributing to our instrument's library! I hope you are encouraged to write for more saxophone. You've got the ear for it.
After a successful performance a few months ago, listening to it again very nearly brought a year to my eye. This will probably remain the hardest sax ensemble piece I’ve played for years to come.
Glad to hear your performance went well! The work was written for a particularly virtuosic ensemble, so I wasn't being particularly mindful about the technical challenge aspect at the time. I'm pleased you took it on!
I just received this piece, and I can’t WAIT to play it. As the soprano player, I physically can’t express how beautiful the first movement is, and as a composer myself, the whole piece is undeniably amazing! PLEASE do more!
Brilliant to say the least. This kind of piece is what got me into composing and music in the first place. When I say I adore contemporary composition this is exactly what I’m referring to.
me and a couple of my friends are playing this piece for our spring concert, sadly we had to shorten it down to movements II and V, but i’m still super excited to play this piece!!
I find myself constantly listening to this music! I just love the themes and how they all mix together so well in the end it’s truly telling a story! I’m not anywhere near the level, but I would be proud if I could be able to play all these pieces with an ensemble 😁
This is pure beauty! I play tenor and this is a perfect addition to the saxophone musical library. Activation has to be my favorite movement. I cannot express in words how wonderful this is! Thank you for composing this masterpiece. I wish you much success composing for many years to come! ❤❤🙏🙏
finally, i have a purchased copy of this piece in my possession. it’s the piece that inspired me to get some of my friends together and make a quartet. can’t wait to start practicing
Give our quartet a couple weeks and we will have bellows and maybe activation uploaded on my channel Edit: Yeah we weren't good enough then. Now that I'm college we will try again with a new quartet.
Beautiful piece, masterfully composed. The little counterlines and harmonies are truly magnificent. Pieces like this remind me why I do music. Amazing!
I never usually comment but this is really good. I can’t wait for me and a few friends to play this. This is an excellent piece Edit: Bought the piece! Can’t wait to play this with my group for our spring concert!
This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces for a sax ensemble I have ever had the pleasure to listen to, I hope to one day find myself a group and play this piece!
This piece is so great that me and my high school friends are doing that third movement for a concert soon and plan to try and do the whole thing next year
Amazing 🎉 I listen to this song every day it is so good and perfect ❤ I am actually a alto saxophonist I am currently trying to learn the tenor sax part my fav. Part is the Activation 🎉
Amazing piece, everything about it is stunning and captures the ideas and strengths of each instrument amazingly. I love all the contrasting sounds in all the first four movements that all end up coming together to create the incredible soundscape and theme of movement 5. Composers like you are the reason I want to be one so bad, we love coming up with ideas and expressing them through music. Me and my buddies are thinking of playing this for a contest at our school in May of next year (2025) where we will hopefully play all five moments in the entirety. For most of my ensemble, we will be seniors in high school next year and we all think this would be an amazing piece to end our high school careers on. I’m actually a clarinet player but I’ve taken on the task of learning soprano sax to contribute with my group. We’re all super excited and can’t wait to see what more you have in store and what we can accomplish. From one Lachlan to another, keep up the amazing work!!!😁
i love it! gracias por compartirlo con nosotros, la verdad que muy hermoso. espero en el futuro ser capaz de adquirirlo y poder interpretarlo. ♡ aguante el saxofón !
Beautiful writing! Please get a sax quartet to perform and record it. It really needs the humanity of 4 people working with each other’s ideas. But I think the writing is there. Keep up the good work. This is a fine addition to the repertory of an instrument that is possibly at its chamber music zenith when playing with four versions of itself, rather than as a solo instrument in orchestral or recital concerts. But maybe your writing will elevate it in those other concerts as well if you keep it up. Congratulations on a well-composed quartet!
Hi @Shooshie128. Thanks for your kind words! I'm casually optimistic that some group out there will have a crack at it at some point, and upload their effort. I'll be sure to link to it if I become aware of a recording.
@@kewntube Me and my highschool ensemble are planning on playing this thing man. I have to say, it is absolutely remarkable. Amazing piece. It's a such a nice blend of chords and different moving bits and pieces. Thank you for creating this wonderful piece of music.
Gonna be playing this with my quartet next spring 💪 (Probably only gonna do mvts 2, 3, 5 because we’re high schoolers and probably won’t be able to learn the music well that fast)
Awesome writing, Lachlan! You must be a saxophonist. All the movements have great character. Sparks was giving me Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat! 😁 I'll definitely be ordering this to bring with me to a saxophone retreat this coming summer.
Thanks Jeffrey! Not a saxophonist, just an enthusiast. I see what you mean about the similarities to Smalltown Boy, especially with sections C/D sharing a very similar chord progression and angular accompanying motif. Thanks for sharing!
Hello! Student at mars hill university here. We have a woodwind ensemble here and we would like to ask permission to arrange this for our instrumentation with bari sax, 2 bass clarinet, 1 clarinet and 1 flute. I play bari and have been wanting to play this for a year now. Came across this song and just fell in love with it. Thank you! Hope to hear back soon!!
Thank you so much for this amazing piece! When I first heard it I knew that this was something I wanted to perform so I purchased it right away! I'm not sure if you are able to confirm my order on Murphy Music Press, but I was wondering if u had access to an E-Print of the music that my ensemble and I could use as it shipped? Thanks once again!
oh excuse me, may I ask the part3 C。that is the baritone sax playing low A ,i remember that we can only bow to B flate on sax……right,I am also a Alto Sax player,but I can only blow way down to the low B fate ,say my English is actually not that good,whether there are any wrong place ,I apologize, thank you~
Some baritones - including the one in the ensemble this piece was written for - are capable of playing the concert C2. If your instrument can't, you might like to selectively transpose some of those notes up an octave. Good luck!
very great, watched the whole thing which is rare for even a 4 minute video, but the ending ): you ended the song on an F major chord in the key of Bb! It feels unfinished
Good analysis! There is deliberate ambiguity around the tonality, particularly in relation to the 3 prominent recurring chords. Sometimes it is represented as IV, vi, V ... elsewhere it is VIb, i, VIIb - notably when first established in the 3rd movement. Either way, you are correct. This is actually the case throughout the entire work - only the first movement ends unambiguously on the tonic.
Nice Music, I just ordered it from Murphy music press, and I'm excited to perform with my quartet, I'm from France, would it be possible to get a digital copy (PDF) in addition/or instead postal shipping? Thanks in advance.
A very beautiful piece, that I listen since.. At least one year ! And now, this is the summmer holidays, so I have the time and I would like to record it and maybe post it (it will take a little bit time lol). Are you okay with it ?
One possibility is that your shipping address was set from PayPal, if that's how you paid. I'd suggest contacting Murphy Music Press for clarity on this point.
你好! Yes, this was written in MuseScore. The handbook on the MuseScore website is an excellent reference, and there are plenty of good RU-vid videos that can teach you the basics.
@@kewntube ok！ thank you for tolding me that 謝謝😊 I really love the lessons on RU-vid teaching musescore, but it is all Japanese and no Chinese translation haha,it's good for me to learn Japanese
Is there any way i could get a digital copy of the music while my actual copy ships? I just bought it the other day, and i would like to start playing it asap
@adrianoseresi3525 Interesting! I'm struggling to find the Symphonic Dances in there, though I'd be interested to know if others hear a similarity. If you'd suggested Shchedryk, I might have agreed with you!
Hello, I'm sorry, but can I transfer the score in the video to the program and print it out and play it? If it doesn't work, I'm going to buy points right away!
Hi. You could potentially screenshot the video one page at a time if you wanted a print of the conductor's score. If you are after the individual parts, there's a link to purchase in the video description.
@@Kaiden.Kristek The audio for this video was produced seperately. I exported MIDI from MuseScore, shipped it over to Logic Pro, and patched it through to the VSL Saxophones library. And then spent far too long playing around with articulation keyswitches! 😃
