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Saxophone History Podcast Episodes 1 & 2
I’m very pleased to be publishing the first couple of episodes of a new podcast I’ve been working on for a while. It’s called The Saxophone History Podcast and the idea is to take a look at the lives of the most interesting people who have played the saxophone throughout history. It’s a thoughtful, researched, and slightly irreverent look at our collective history as saxophonists. I’m going to look at jazz, classical, and pop players with the same level of interest and care, and hopefully have a lot of fun along the way.
The first episode is on Elise Hall, who was a 19th century socialite and amateur saxophonist who commissioned many of the pieces that became the foundation for our repertoire, including works by Debussy, Schmidt, Loeffler, D’Indy, and more. For this recording, I was joined by Erika Durham, my close friend and saxophone collaborator from long ago.
The podcast will be available on all major platforms but you can click the following link to take you directly to it:
https://player.rss.com/saxophonehistorypodcast/1126104
Here are a selection of the sources used in researching this podcast:
Sources for this episode:
https://wam.rutgers.edu/elise-hall-an-interview-with-dr-paul-cohen/
https://www.proquest.com/openview/ceb23778001ccec1276aab67a7a37f10/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y (Bill Street Article)
Debussy’s “Rapsodie pour orchestre et saxophone” Revisited by, James R. Noyes
Source: The Musical Quarterly , Fall – Winter, 2007, Vol. 90, No. 3/4 (Fall – Winter, 2007), pp. 416-445 Oxford University Press
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25172879
National Women’s History Alliance
Timeline of Legal History of Women in the United States
https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/resources/womens-rights-movement/detailed-timeline/
Click to access elise_hall_sj_ma-new.pdf
The second episode is on what I’m calling the original ultimate sax battle between Adolphe Sax and Michele Carafa at the Champs de Mars in Paris. This one was for all the marbles and lead to the saxophone’s adoption worldwide. We also look at the early life of Adolphe Sax and close the loop with episode one, explaining just how the saxophone got to the West Coast of America in the 19th Century. I was lucky enough to record this one with Erika Durham as well.
You can click the following link to listen:
https://player.rss.com/saxophonehistorypodcast/1126161
Sources for this episode:
https://www.saxgourmet.com/adolphe-sax-the-man-who-started-it-all/
https://www.britannica.com/art/dinanderie
The Devil’s Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool, by Michael Segell
andrew d meyer 