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

81 by Gourwitz, and others like him who support significant commissions to the wind ensemble repertoire deserve to be recognized and recorded for their support of this medium and the legacy of the music that has been created due to their philanthropy. Steven Bryant’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone has quickly become recognized as a major contribution to the repertoire, pushing the saxophone soloist to virtuosic technique and improvised passages. It helps form, as Joe Lulloff stated, “the complete musician, the complete saxophonist, able to play and teach in some form the fullness of techniques required by this piece.” 74 74 Howard Gourwitz and Joe Lulloff, interview by author, Cincinnati, OH, March 11, 2018.