However, many arrangers have take Debussy’s orchestral score and re-written the melodies for saxophone in virtuosic altissimo passages, such as the arrangement below by Vincent David.

JoAnn Falletta conducts the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Alberto Ginastera, ...

Range The range of the alto saxophone is from concert D♭3 (the D♭ below middle C) to concert A♭5 (or A5 on altos with a high F♯ key). As with most types of saxophones, the standard written range is ...

Bobby Keys’ solo on the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” is one of the definitive saxophone performances ... to the solo’s highest pitch – an altissimo G, before making a quick descent ...

The team recorded five professional and three amateur saxophonists as each played a scale on the modified sax. All players could sound notes below the high, or altissimo, range. For those pitches ...

British saxophonist Jess Gillam lit up the Ordway Concert Hall this week in St. Paul, in the first saxophone recital presented by the Schubert Club’s “International Artist Series.” ...