UCLA

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra is an original music composition for symphonic orchestra, featuring an alto saxophone soloist. The music presents a conflict between fast, short accents from the orchestra, and lyrical sustained notes from the saxophonist, embodied in a motive consisting of three step-wise descending notes. Part I is resolved with the saxophonist succeeding in converting the orchestra to lyrical passages. Part II is a slow movement, in which the conflict is materialized in the awakening of an original chorale melody that utilizes the inversion of the three-note motive from Part I.