The Missouri Symphony Society
I’m a saxophone player and as you might expect I play jazz music. Though I will say that it’s not the only music that I’m interested in and that I actually love symphony and orchestral music and have even played with chamber musicians. Of course it takes a bit of arrangement and this is not the typical set up but I’ve always enjoyed it and think it works perfectly well. I also have a passion with arranging some violin solos for saxophone and have played a few of these in public. They always receive positive response, yeah I know, it’s my friends who like it. But I think this is a cool way of exploring possibilities in music, you know? And I’m trying to build a repertoire of saxophone music based on thematic influences of music composed for other instruments. Anyway that’s just my own personal desire and interest.
A few months ago I went with my mother and father to Columbus, Missouri. They’re thinking of moving there so I went along for the ride while they checked out some things and I think my dad might have met with possible employers. I was more interested in the music scene and wanted to know what I could expect from it when I came to visit. We spent four nights in a nice little Columbus Missouri hotel and I think we really found a lot of interesting things in that time.
I went to the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, which is really an incredible establishment. The Missouri Symphony Society is based there and I am really interested in the work they do. One of the things they offer is a chamber outreach program and I would just love to be a part of that. They’re also focused on educating the young and the development of excellence in the youth musicians. The society has a strong reputation and I think their work is really cool. Plus I think it would be an excellent idea to present some of the chamber music in their educational outreach programs played by other instruments. I think to hear some of those pieces played by a saxophone could be inspiring to young people and open musical possibilities for them. I’m glad my parents are going to move here and I will definitely be visiting them often.
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