Call and Response
for Alto Saxophone and Piano
Composer: James Aikman
Instrumentation: Alto Saxophone and Piano
Year Composed: 2002
Duration: 11 minutes
Cost: Purchase: $35.00
Program Notes:
The interplay of call and response has been around for a long time,
afterall, so sing the birds. Call and response could very well have been
the first form of human dialogue and from it derived the amazing yet
mysterious acquisition of language. Though in a broader context, the
concept of call and response can be understood to have significance
associated with the drama of life, what life asks of us, and how we
respond to these nudges. All of this, for a composer, can best be
addressed using musical language.
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