Duality: Works for Tenor Saxophone & Piano Scott Sandberg tenor saxophone Nariaki Sugiura, piano Keith Teepen, piano WORKS BY McMichael | Lacour | Harvey Giovannini | Worley | Caravan WWW.ALBANYRECORDS.COM TROY1807 ALBANY RECORDS U.S. 915 BROADWAY, ALBANY, NY 12207 TEL: 518.436.8814 FAX: 518.436.0643 ALBANY RECORDS U.K. BOX 137, KENDAL, CUMBRIA LA8 0XD TEL: 01539 824008 © 2020 ALBANY RECORDS MADE IN THE USA DDD WARNING: COPYRIGHT SUBSISTS IN ALL RECORDINGS ISSUED UNDER THIS LABEL. Sandberg_1807_book.indd 1-2 12/18/19 4:13 PM Guy Lacour: Pièce Concertante The Music Frenchman Guy Lacour (1932-2013) had an active career as a performer, teacher, and composer. After winning first prize in both saxophone (class of Marcel Mule, 1952) Catherine McMichael: Duality and chamber music (class of Fernand Oubradous, 1955) at the Conservatoire National A pianist, arranger, composer, and publisher based in Saginaw, Michigan, Catherine Supérieur de Musique de Paris, he could be heard in both classical and popular venues. McMichael (b. 1954) leads a diverse musical life. She maintains a private studio with He specialized on the tenor saxophone, and joining the Marcel Mule Quartet was an students of all ages, is on faculty at Saginaw Valley State University, performs with important turning point in his career. It led to opportunities as a soloist and orchestral several ensembles, directs a church handbell choir, and maintains a busy schedule of musician, making it possible for him to increase the visibility of the lesser-known tenor commissions for ensembles such as the Saginaw Bay Orchestra, the Canadian Brass, saxophone. and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Pièce Concertante was completed in 1976, not long after he began teaching at vari- Her works for saxophone range from duos such as For Hope and Fusions Suite, ous conservatories around Paris. It is available for either alto or tenor saxophone with thir- both for baritone saxophone and piano, to solos with band such as Woodland Serenade teen instruments or piano reduction. Lacour presented the world premiere at the 5th World and Rondo and The Sapphire, to works with voice such as Scores of Love and American Saxophone Congress in London in 1976, performing on tenor saxophone with the Band of Voices. Her first piece for tenor saxophone, Duality, was commissioned by Scott the Irish Guards led by Major E. G. Horabin, and he then performed the tenor saxophone Sandberg as part of a continuing effort to expand the tenor saxophone repertoire. and piano version with Alain Margoni in 1977. The alto saxophone and ensemble version As McMichael wrote: was first performed by Jacques Desloges in 1981. “Duality refers to duo, which is what the piece does. It showcases saxophonist and In 1992 Lacour focused his energies on composing, giving up his work as a teacher pianist equally. It also is a mathematical term, holding that two operations or concepts are and performer, though his output was influenced by these aspects of his career. He wrote interchangeable, all results holding in one formulation also holding in the other. In music, many pedagogical materials, including short conservatoire exam pieces for all wind that translates into equal and balanced interchange of both players. Duality’s three move- instruments and important etude collections, such as his 28 Études on limited transposi- ments each carry a mathematical title that translates into musical interpretation. Polarity tion modes, originally for saxophone but adapted for several other instruments. refers to the polar opposition of two entities. In this movement, the pianist is playing at the outer boundaries of the keyboard, and the saxophonist is traveling the entire range Paul Harvey: Concertino of the instrument, beginning at the middle and expanding in both directions. Linearity, Paul Harvey (b. 1935), a prominent British clarinetist, was awarded the International derived from the meaning of all material going in a straight line, is applied to the musi- Clarinet Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 and currently serves as a Vice cal concept of a melodic line. This particular line is generated from the musical letters President of the Clarinet & Saxophone Society of Great Britain. His performance career of Dr. Sandberg’s name, and goes in a vocal line from there throughout the movement. included positions with the Band of the Irish Guards, the Scottish National Orchestra on Circularity implies moving in a circle, and the two musical voices do exactly that, travel- bass clarinet, and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, as well as performing contrabass ing by way of intersecting whole tone scales, and returning to them several times during clarinet on several horror film soundtracks. Also a saxophonist, he performed with the the movement, as though traveling along a circle, meeting those scales again and again.” Sandberg_1807_book.indd 3-4 12/18/19 4:13 PM BBC Symphony Orchestra and co-founded the London Saxophone Quartet. He has served His faculty positions included the University of Bridgeport, the State University College on the faculties of the Trinity College of Music and the Royal Military School of Music, at Oneonta, and the University of Maine. He remained active late in life, including per- and his numerous publications as a composer, arranger, and author are particularly notable. forming as soprano saxophonist of the Williamsburg Saxophone Quartet, a group that he Concertino was written for, dedicated to, and premiered by James Houlik. Harvey founded in 1996. wrote a series of Concertinos, one each for soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones Worley’s output for saxophone includes many arrangements in addition to his with orchestra. It appears that he also wrote a Concertino Grosso for SATB saxophone original compositions. Several have titles that directly reference a place of influence or quartet and that the soprano, tenor, baritone, and quartet Concertinos were premiered at his location when writing; for example, the Claremont Concerto was composed when the 5th World Saxophone Congress in London in 1976, while the Concertino for alto Worley was studying at the Royal Academy and living in Claremont Park, Surrey, saxophone bears a later publication date of 1980. Harvey’s Concertinos feature the same England. “September” Sonata is a substantial work in length and difficulty, written orchestral instrumentation as Ibert’s Concertino da Camera. for James Houlik. Based on the dates that Worley notated at the end of each movement, the majority of it was written in September of 1985, and the work was finished on Caesar Giovannini: Rhapsody October 4th of the same year. American pianist and composer Caesar Giovannini (1925-2017) received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Chicago Conservatory and served in the Ronald Caravan: Soliloquy & Celebration U.S. Navy Concert Band in Washington, D.C., from 1945-1946. He then spent several A clarinetist and saxophonist, Ronald L. Caravan (b. 1946) taught single reeds at the years in the television and movie industry, first performing as a pianist at NBC and ABC Syracuse University School of Music from 1980-2015 and is a former president of the studios in Chicago and later for movie studios in California such as Universal, Columbia, North American Saxophone Alliance. He has performed extensively on both instruments, 20th Century Fox, and Disney. including his 2017 CD release, “Single Reed Expressions.” This impressive and ambitious Some of his most well-known music is for concert band, and his Overture in B-Flat project, released by Mark Records, is an eight-volume series of approximately seventy is performed frequently and appears on many state band repertoire lists. His final work, works almost equally divided between performances on clarinet and on saxophone. composed in 2015, is titled Honor and Glory and is dedicated to the U.S. Navy Band. Additionally, Caravan has been producing his own saxophone mouthpieces since 1975 In addition to the Rhapsody for tenor saxophone and piano, Giovannini also composed a and clarinet mouthpieces since 1985. Romance for baritone or alto saxophone and piano. Caravan is particularly known for his pedagogical compositions that integrate extended techniques, such as Paradigms I and Paradigms II, which are collections of solo John C. Worley: “September” Sonata works for alto saxophone. Soliloquy & Celebration, written for either soprano or tenor John C. Worley (1919-1999) was a college professor and composer best-known for his saxophone and piano is subtitled A Tribute to the Classic Jazz Saxophonist Paul Desmond works for saxophone. With degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the Columbia (1925-1977). Desmond is well-known not only for his work as a member of the Dave University Teachers College, he also studied composition with Sir Lennox Berkeley at Brubeck Quartet but also for composing Take Five, which proved to be their biggest hit. the Royal Academy of Music in London and conducting with Pierre Monteaux in Maine. Appropriately, Caravan’s Soliloquy is in 5/4. Sandberg_1807_book.indd 5-6 12/18/19 4:13 PM Sandberg has presented clinics at the North Dakota Music Educators Association, The Performers the Northeast Texas Saxophone Symposium, and numerous universities and high schools. His work as an adjudicator has included NASA collegiate and high school competitions, Dr. Scott Sandberg serves as Assistant Professor of Saxophone MTNA, North Dakota All-State, and solo and ensemble contests for the North Dakota