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

112 GOURWITZ: Oh, it was in Texas Tech, it wasn’t Kansas City. In Lubbock. LULLOFF: I did it with Dallas Winds, with Jerry Junkin and the Dallas Wind Symphony. Texas Tech was with Sarah McKoin, and her ensemble down there. She’s a Brevard alumni. Oklahoma State was with Joe Missal at the Region 4 conference last year. I did it at Navy Band Conference. And we did it again at Michigan State in preparation for the CD recording session. So we’ve done it a few times. Kevin’s reprogrammed it. We did it in Indianapolis, with Kevin, at the Music for All Conference. But that was invited from Kevin. I want to say that is online somewhere. I have the video on my computer if you need it, but you don’t need it. But the most important thing was that was inspiring for high school students, because that’s a high school thing. They played the crap out of it. So those are some of the performances. We’re trying to get it in Japan, but the connection with Kevin in Japan didn’t quite work out. And you know, there’s a lot of territorial, good territorial thing. But sometimes they want to use their own saxophonist. Fine. But we’re just looking for more performances of it. As if I were to play the Dahl Concerto or other concertos as well. But, this would be certainly first on my recommended list. If somebody said, ‘Well we’re thinking about doing a concerto.’ ‘Well, what about the Bryant? I’d really love to do the Bryant with you guys if you want.’ Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. So hopefully the orchestra version will work for us. JENKINS: Yeah, I talked to Steven a little bit about that the other day too. LULLOFF: OK? JENKINS: Awesome. Thank you gentlemen. End of Interview