4a4 Saxophone Quartet GuestBook

Dan

A member of our quartet (Northeast Texas Saxophone Quartet) found your excellent website. We started with Looney Tunes and West Side Story and are reading others. Great work and thanks! Two side notes: One to Pavel, who referred us in his posting to the recording of the Jerusalem Saxophone Quartet. Thank you for that! In the last movement, I noticed the group shouted the word "Mambo" or something to that effect. It's been a long time since I saw West Side Story and if you read this, please confirm what the word is. I like it, and I assume it is true to the original. Second, I confess we edited Looney Tunes a bit. Having grown up watching Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and friends, we changed the rhythm and phrasing in the 9th and 10th and the 13th and 14th measures after E. Instead of straight eighth notes, we made them dotted eighth followed by sixteenths, and slurred them to the first eighth note in the following measure. Also, we switched the final long note between the soprano and alto parts so that the final concert F (fifth of the chord) is played by the soprano and the root (tonic) is played by the alto. Seems to work better. I hope you don't mind! Keep up the great work and thanks again!

Message number 25 @ 2006-01-28 18:46:00

Sita Pottacheruva

Bravo pour votre site et la possibilité de télécharger des arrangements de quatuor !!! Nous sommes un jeune quatuor de saxophones "Les Safer Sax" à Genève en Suisse et sommes vraiment réjouis de voir que d'autres saxophonistes croient à l'originalité et à la pertinence du quatuor !!! Je me réjouis de venir vous voir en concert en 2006 !

Message number 24 @ 2005-12-26 15:47:00

Fabrice

Bravo pour ce travail fantastique! Les choix des morceaux arrangés (ou compos) sont pertinents. Outre le talent musical, ce désir de partager et de mettre à disposition son travail est admirable. Encore toutes mes félicitations!!!

Message number 23 @ 2005-12-06 22:35:00

junior sanchez

Hola! No se si saben hablar espanol, pero deseo expresar mi alegria porque su carteto a servido de motivo para formar el cuarteto dominicano del saxofon, aqui el saxofon tiene un rol interesante en nuestra musica. Espero que sigan hacia delante.

Message number 22 @ 2005-11-03 21:57:00

Sarah

Hi Phillipe again! Saxsatonal recently performed another one of your superb arrangement, this time the Adagio for Strings, as part of our concert at the Worksop Priory Church. The audience loved it and so I thought i should congratulate you again on your amazing skills of bringing my favoutite music into sax quartet format. Bravo!!

Message number 21 @ 2005-10-04 17:27:00

Junior

Tienen un site muy interesante y a la vez muy caritativo ya que se pueden bajar piezas que por aqui son dificiles. exitos junsax (Cuarteto de saxofon Dominicano)

Message number 20 @ 2005-09-20 00:02:00

Elias Sampaio

Hello, voces possuem um timo quarteto. Quero trocar partituras... Tenho arranjos para quarteto de saxofones de choro brasileiro e de sambas, interessa? Um grande abraco. Quarteto de saxofones Vientos Norte, Elias Sampaio

Message number 19 @ 2005-06-20 23:08:00

Scott Devlin

4a4.....your arrangements are awesome !!!! I have a very advanced high school quartet that I coach and they fell in love with "West Side Story"... Thanks so much for making them available!!!!!!...

Message number 18 @ 2005-05-07 22:11:00

Lynda

Hello Philippe! I purchased your sax quartet arrangement, "Themes de Georges Bizet" from Sibelius.com. I think it's so great! The quartet I play with loves it! By any chance, have you arranged a duet version of it? (soprano/alto, soprano/tenor, alto/tenor, alto/alto, etc...) Thanks so much! Lynda

Message number 17 @ 2005-05-04 14:31:00

Ron

Hi,I just down loaded your "James Bond theme" for Community Band Quartet rehearsal. It should go over good. Thanks. Ron ( Not schooled community band sax player.) Love your arrangements!

Message number 16 @ 2005-04-18 09:29:00