Saxophone Quartet Recital

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Saxophone Quartet Recital
For this concert report, I choose to go to a performance by the Department of Music at the Auburn University College of Liberal Arts. The performance was titled Saxophone Quartet Recital and was directed to the talented Michael Pendowski. The marvel that was the performance took place at the Goodwin Recital Hall, starting at 7:30 p.m. on Monday the 9th of April. There were three main performances that evening all which were electrifying. Starting out with the Nova Quartet, the Eagle Quartet and finally the Tiger Quartet. As the names suggest, each of the pieces was performed by a group of four students.
Although the show was performed at night, it was quite impressive to get a chance to hear the various compositions that were done by the students. I had arrived early by 6:30 to make sure that I did not get in when the show had already started. More importantly, I did not want to miss any of the developments before the show. By 7:17 p.m. I was seated and waiting for the show. Having done some research into the pieces that were to be performed that night, I was much interested in the piece, Tiger Quartet. This was a performance that had actually won the 2017 MTNA State Competition and had also been awarded the Second Prize Winner in the 2017 International Music Competition referred to as “The Art of Chamber Music”. It was quite interesting to note that, the piece did not disappoint. The other two first quartets were quite interesting as well, but my bias was ...