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What keeps his music from sounding like mere recapitulations of nineteenth- century formulas, however, is the way he has allowed it to be informed by twentieth-century developments without being subsumed by them. [...] Solitude," for solo piano, nods audibly and respectfully to Scott Joplin without ever sounding like a ragtime piece, while the Adagio for alto saxophone and piano interpolates stomping, tango-like sections in among its long lyrical lines and its sections of occasionally rather bombastic romanticism.
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Serenade: Music for Saxophone and Piano
M. Zachary Johnson. Serenade: Music for Saxophone and Piano. Brian Horner; Elizabeth Avery. Sound-...
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