my senior recital's tonight!

[prophetik music]

and i'll post music as soon as possible after it's done.

wish me luck!

edit: everything's up at http://prophet.escariot.net/recital/ in both a zip of 128kb. here's the tracklist.

1. introduction (an email my sax-hating professor wrote to me ages ago that i couldn't help but let everyone else enjoy)

2-4. movements I-III of paule maurice's Tableaux de Provence. light french classical saxophone, and my favorite on the concert.

5. desenclos's Prelude, Cadence, et Finale. heavy post-romantic, mostly atonal, slightly serialistic classical saxophone. my pianist sucked on this piece, but it was still fun. by far the hardest piece on this recital, and it shows.

6. yuyama's divertimento for marimba and alto saxophone. there's a significant 6-mallet section in the middle that my guy messed up (very difficult stick change, apparently), so the 6-mallet part isn't as good as it could be, but it was still pretty good. very enjoyable listen.

7. jones's mass transit. AWESOME funk/jazz sax quartet, stomping included. very much fun, although we sound terrible. i played bari sax on this one, which is why the top sounds so wacked. it starts on two, if you're curious. and, yeah, we've only got two majors in the group, which is why we sound so darn bad.

and you can totally hear me laughing during the applause at the end.

anyways, enjoy!

enjoy, everyone!

[Kanthos]

Good luck Brad! What are you going to be playing?

[avaris]

Go toot your horn for the crowd!

Good luck dude!

[Jillian Aversa]

Break a leg!

[prophetik music]

paule maurice - tableaux de provence (alto and piano)

alfred desenclos - prelude, cadence, et finale (alto and piano)

akira yuyama - divertamento for marimba and alto saxophone (duh)

david jones - mass transit (sax 4tet, me on bari)

it went well! not as perfect as i'd have hoped, but it went pretty well. i'll have recordings soon.

[OceansAndrew]

Did you wear the leather pants like I told you to?

[prophetik music]

i was going to wear leather gloves, but i wore tails and a dark red vest and tie. it was nice.

[Global-Trance]

I read the thread title as "my senator's recital's tonight!"

[chrono26]

DUDE sax rox. oh fa sho, hope its good brad-boy.

[Moseph]

Yay for recordings! It's been about three years now, and I still can't bring myself to listen to the recording of my own junior recital.

[OceansAndrew]

So no leather pants then?

[avaris]

So no leather pants then?

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[BardicKnowledge]

hooray for sax players! Congratulations on a successful recital -- be sure to get those recordings up!

[HershDawg]

The Tableux is nice. I played it to get in to college, first jury, etc. Your program looks nice. best of luck to you.

My first recital is still a about a year and a half away.

[prophetik music]

tableaux is one of my favorite pieces. played it in high school, played it for a jury in college, and chose it for my recital because it's SO dang good. there's so much there that you miss on the first few times through it.

[griffith9]

Congratulations on the recital~! We're sure you did amazing.^^

[prophetik music]

finally uploaded the files. take a listen! i've got both 320kbps and 128kbps .zip files uploaded. obviously, escariot would prefer you went for the smaller option.

edit - link's in the first post, but you can get it here.