LA SEINE
For Solo Alto Saxophone
by James Matheson
Chamber Music - Sheet Music

Chamber Music alto Saxophone - Advanced/Professional

SKU: PR.114414170

For Solo Alto Saxophone. Composed by James Matheson. Sws. Contemporary. Performance Score. With Standard notation. Composed January 20 2007. 8 pages. Duration 4 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41417. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114414170).

ISBN 9781598066364. UPC: 680160596683. 9x12 inches.

Commissioned by the Albany (NY) Symphony Orchestra, La Seine explores the full range and dynamic character of the instrument. From rapid fingerings to long, sustained elements, La Seine is an impressive solo outing. Originally composed for English Horn solo, it is here transcribed for the alto saxophone. For advanced performers.________________________________________LA SEINE for solo Alto SaxophoneInspired by Joan Mitchell’s expressionist painting La Seine, James Matheson’s work parallels the painting in its wildly energetic exploration of texture. Matheson covers much ground within 4 minutes yet keeps altissimo to a minimum, and is at times a study in tremolos between contrasting fingerings for one pitch, creating timbral intensity. LA SEINE was commissioned by the Albany Symphony, originally as a solo for English Horn (available separately as 114-41416). The present saxophone version was created by Matheson for Tim McAllister who premiered it in 2007 at the University of Arizona Museum of Art.