A Conductor’s and Performer’s Guide to Steven Bryant’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone - Chester Jenkins

111 performances, that people aren’t scared off by the improvisation or whatever else and that it gets performances. Because I feel like it’s that worthy of a work to be on there. LULLOFF: That’s why we made the piano reduction for concerto competitions. But I think we got to get it out more. Not just me, but other performers have to go and play it. I want to play it a lot. Playing with band is with our orchestra. You know. But I want other people, I want Steven Banks to play it. I want people to render it the right way. But it’s OK to have various performances of it. And I think it’s going to take a little while. It takes a while to catch on. But it must be known for it. That’s the intent. I think it’s implied at least. Certainly Steven wants it that way. I think part of the thing is to get wide publicity and distribution on this piece. Steven and I, and Howard knows this, Steven has a premiere of his music with orchestra. One of his new pieces, a fanfare for orchestra, I don’t want to mischaracterize it, it’s like an eight minute piece. An opener. But it’s like a fanfare piece with Detroit Symphony coming up in the first weekend in April, we’re all going to go see. I’ve played a lot with Leonard Slatkin in St. Louis and some in Detroit. And I’m hopeful that maybe we might be able to garner some interest. It’s really hard to break into that world. Having an orchestra perform this would benefit the piece greatly. I’m not sure it’s going to help as much the band piece. But it will give more publicity to this piece. But this has to be played by our young kids. Our Julian Velascos. Our Joseph Herbsts. Our Jonathan Nichols. Steven Banks. All these brilliant performers. Is there anything else we haven’t covered? A listing of performance, maybe for your record. Help me Howard. That’s the other thing to be noted. He has been at practically every…he has moved mountains in his law firm. I don’t whether if I should thank him, or Benson, his partner. To come to performances GOURWITZ: Both LULLOFF: We played it at Michigan State. After Michigan State we played it at…help me out Howard…in the summer…. GOURWITZ: In Austria LULLOFF: In the summer at the Mid Europe Festival in Schaldming, Austria GOURWITZ: Schaldming. I couldn’t think of it. Schaldming. Then in Strasbourg, France, at the World Saxophone Congress. LULLOFF: Strasbourg, France. We’ve played it, obviously this is not in chronological order. GOURWITZ: In Oklahoma, in Kansas City LULLOFF: University of Oklahoma. I played it at Stillwater at Oklahoma State University in Region 4. I did it at Texas Tech at the NASA region two years ago.