[Magdalen] R.I.P. Dave Brubeck

[Grace Cangialosi]

Oh, sorry, Scott. The saxophone sonata I was talking about was by Arnold Bax--a composer I'd also never heard of before college.

> On Dec 7, 2015, at 11:30 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hmm...the mind spins, trying to remember 5/4 movements of sonatas. Paul Creston's, maybe? Or Tableaux de Provence? The memories!
> 
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>> On Dec 7, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I never encountered 5- or 7-beat meters until I got to college, and the
>> first time nearly did me in!  I was accompanist for a saxophonist, and one
>> movement of a sonata was in 5/4 time. By the time I was a senior and played
>> piano in the Britten "War Requiem," the 7/4 movement (The "Lacrymosa,"
>> maybe?) held few terrors.