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Check out the new SAXpress website.

After listening to your comments and suggestions, we completely redesigned SAXpress.com. Your suggestions led us to a simpler design, easier navigation, and better mobile support. Please don’t stop making suggestions! We listen.

As a thank you for your support you get 15% off SAXpress purchases until May 31.

Use the coupon code SPRING2013 at check out. Code is valid for SAXpress publications only – Technique books and Tee shirts are not included in this discount. Code expires at midnight, 31 May, 2013.

New features :

  • Dynamic design makes mobile and phone browsing easier
  • Better navigation so you can find what you’re looking for faster
  • Streamlined registration process
  • Download complete sample scores of all SAXpress arrangements (for registered users)
  • Download complete performances (synth not saxes) of all SAXpress arrangements (for registered users)
  • New additions to the Resources and links page
  • More free music to download
  • More free etudes to download

A change that affects many users is now we require you to register before you download any free music. Sign up/Sign In is quick and easy. Don’t worry – we never share any personal information with anyone for any reason and we use PayPal to process purchases so we never have your banking information.

Once again, thanks to everyone for all their support.

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Christmas Music for Saxophone Ensembles

Christmas Music for Saxophone Ensemble from SAXpress.com

It’s that time of year again. If you’re planning a holiday concert, SAXpress has a few things you might enjoy:

March of the Toys from “Babes in Toyland” by Victor Herbert for AATB or SATB Sax Quartet
Originally part of the 1903 operetta, “Babes in Toyland”, March of the Toys by Victor Herbert has become a favorite holiday concert choice.

Sandman’s Song and Evening Prayer from “Hansel and Gretel” by Engelbert Humperdinck SATB Sax Quartet
This quartet presents the “Forest Scene”, a favorite excerpt from the opera “Hansel and Gretel”. There are two parts: the “Sandman’s Song” and the “Evening Prayer”. The “Evening Prayer” (“Abengesegen”) is perhaps the best known work by composer Engelbert Humperdinck. The Evening Prayer may be played as a standalone piece.

Coventry Bells, A Christmas Meditation on Three Carols, Traditional, SAATB Sax Quintet
Three well known Christmas carols, Veni Emmanuel, the Coventry Carol, and the Ukranian Carol (Carol of the Bells) are featured in this SAATB saxophone quintet. They are presented in a variety of textures and moods.

Halleluja Chorus from “Messiah” by Handel for SAATB Sax Quintet
A holiday standard well-known and loved by audiences, this setting for sax quintet is a straightforward transcription, true to the music written by Handel, with no modern additions. For convenience it has been transposed from the original key of D major into the key of E-flat. If you would like it in the original key, please contact me.

Follow the links to hear the music and see the scores.

Special Offer: Get Three Ragtime Sax Quartets for One Low Price

Special Limited Time Offer: Get Three Ragtime Sax Quartets for One Low Price:
For a short time you can download three Ragtime Saxophone Quartets by three famous Ragtime composers for one low price!

Special Offer - 3 Ragtime Sax Quartets - 1 Low Price

You get a full score and parts to each for only 15.95. That’s 33% off our already low prices!

Order your SAXpress Ragtime Package now.

12th Street Rag by Euday Bowman S/AATB Quartet
Creole Belles
by J. Bodewalt Lampe SATB Quartet
Magnetic Rag
by Scott Joplin S/AATB Quartet

(click on the tiles above to read about each arrangement)

Offer available as download only.

Click here to download a complete catalog of  SAXPRESS publications

Download a Catalog of SAXpress Arrangements

Sometimes you don’t have time to browse through a webpage to find exactly what you want. With that in mind, here’s a link to download a pdf file of all the SAXpress.com arrangements broken down by ensemble, with our new lower prices.

SAXPRESS Catalog 03-05-2013

6th Annual Atlanta Saxophone Day

Here’s a great way to spend a Saturday in September:  Everyone’s invited to the 6th Annual Atlanta Saxophone Day at Georgia State University on Saturday September 29th. The featured guest artist this year is Selmer and Rico Artist Timothy Roberts, Associate Professor of Saxophone at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. He recently retired as Principal Saxophonist and National Tour Soloist with the US Navy Band in Washington, DC.

This event will also feature Jan Berry Baker, Assistant Professor of Saxophone at Georgia State University and Gary Paulo, Artist Affiliate at Emory University. Dr. Scott Stewart, Director of Wind Studies at Emory University, will conduct the saxophone ensembles. The day will be filled with focus sessions, masterclasses, an artist recital, saxophone ensembles and choir, a Rico reed presentation and exhibits of instruments, supplies and music by Carere Music. Saxophone Day is open to all players, beginning through professional.

The pre-registration period ends September 7th (to guarantee your spot, lunch and a t-shirt). You can find out more information and download an application form at the following web address: http://www.music.emory.edu/saxophone/

Please note: if you wish to participate in the masterclass, contact Dr. Baker and submit your application early – there are only 8 spots available for solo performers!

 

Free Saxophone Music on SAXpress

There are several new pieces to be added to the Free Music section this weekend. I’m starting off with the JS Bach Prelude in D minor, BWV 899.1.  Typical of Bach, the prelude is followed by a fugue or in this case a fughetta; however, the prelude is written in four voices, the fughetta is written in three. The fughetta will be uploaded this weekend too. The prelude is for SATB quartet, the fughetta is for ATB trio. It might be nice to give your soprano sax player a break.

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What’s New

SAXpress has been working the guys over at Small Office · Home Office · IT pretty hard the past week or two. With their help we’ve added quite a bit to the site including some features that you may have already seen if you’ve visited recently.

If we haven’t seen you at SAXpress in the past week come see the great work they’ve done for us. Of course you can browse through the new selections and arrangements that we’ve added at the same time.

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YouTube Video for Abendlied Performance at ATL Sax Day

The 5th Annual Atlanta Saxophone Day was incredible. Met lots of nice people, played and heard lots of nice music. The guest artist was Joseph Lulloff. During the recital he played everything from J.S. Bach to Jimmy Dorsey.

The Saxophone Choir was comprised of 60 players from Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, and South Carolina.  We played excerpts from “Pictures at an Exhibition”, Irish Tune from County Derry, and Abendlied. The last piece is a SAXpress arrangement. You can find the sheet music for it here: Abendlied Saxophone Sextet. Last time I made a blog post, I promised a link to a video of the performance and so here it is:

 

 

Thanks to Dr. Jan Baker, Dr. Scott Stewart, Gary Paulo and everyone else who made the 5th Annual Atlanta Saxophone Day such a terrific experience.

New Releases

  • The Circus Bee
  • Quartet 1 in Mixed Keys, D.18
  • Prelude and Fugue in F, WoO. 55
  • Duet in F, WoO 27, #2
  • In Celtic Lands
  • Fairy Tales
  • Variations on La ci darem la Mano, WoO. 28