About the Artists: Alliage Saxophone Quintet
If you combine copper with zinc, and add keys, you get a saxophone. If you put four saxophones together, and add a piano, you get the Alliage (al-ee-aj) Quintett, whose performances of classical music are pure gold. The Alliage Quintett from Germany is probably the world's outstanding saxophone ensemble. Their name means "alloy," to evoke the idea of mixing something old to make something new.
The pieces that the Alliage Quintett will play in this third concert of the Chamber Music Corvallis season at LaSells Stewart Center on Friday, January 23, 2015, at 7:30 pm, were not originally written for saxophones and piano. But they all sound like their composers had the saxophone in mind. Curiosity will be changed to delight from the first notes. The saxophone may be identified with jazz, thanks to giants like Coltrane, Shepp and Rollins, but the four saxophones--soprano, alto, tenor and baritone--lend themselves beautifully to classical music.
The members of the Alliage Quintett are French-Canadian, Polish, Korean, Ukrainian, and German, as viewed from left to right in the adjoining photos. They represent yet another "alloy" of international musicians. They will be traveling directly from Germany to Corvallis, part of a very limited West Coast tour.
The alloys of copper and zinc, saxophones and piano, and five nationalities, promise to make the January 22nd concert by the Alliage Quintett pure gold.
The pieces that the Alliage Quintett will play in this third concert of the Chamber Music Corvallis season at LaSells Stewart Center on Friday, January 23, 2015, at 7:30 pm, were not originally written for saxophones and piano. But they all sound like their composers had the saxophone in mind. Curiosity will be changed to delight from the first notes. The saxophone may be identified with jazz, thanks to giants like Coltrane, Shepp and Rollins, but the four saxophones--soprano, alto, tenor and baritone--lend themselves beautifully to classical music.
The members of the Alliage Quintett are French-Canadian, Polish, Korean, Ukrainian, and German, as viewed from left to right in the adjoining photos. They represent yet another "alloy" of international musicians. They will be traveling directly from Germany to Corvallis, part of a very limited West Coast tour.
The alloys of copper and zinc, saxophones and piano, and five nationalities, promise to make the January 22nd concert by the Alliage Quintett pure gold.
