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

52 Figure 37. Concerto for Alto Saxophone 1 st movement, measures 121-122. Slow glissando notated in trombone parts. Challenge of coordinating three different glissandi over the course of the time. In measure 175 through 178, the trumpets begin a technique that is used throughout the work: repeating a note at an increasing and then decreasing rate of speed. Bryant has taken care to note at which point the articulation should achieve its fastest speed. Since players are not playing together toward the same rhythmic end here, each should be comfortable to achieve the rhythmic acceleration independently, to the speed generally relative to where the 16ths would be felt in time. Figure 38. Concerto for Alto Saxophone 1 st movement, measures 181-184, gradual acceleration and deceleration of notes.