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Michelle Minkoff


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Cutting-edge saxophone

Saturday's New Music Brandeis concert opened with a startling bang. Eliot Gettegno, a professional musician, wonderfully executed a solo titled "Sketches for Solo Soprano Saxophone," written by Derek Jacoby (GRAD). Gettegno made every note on the saxophone seem completely effortless-you could see the intensity with which he played, watching him push his breath through the instrument.


For Marquee series, an eccentric finale

Once a prodigy pianist and composer, perhaps among the ranks of Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, 20th century experimental Russian composer Leo Ornstein abruptly retreated from public life in the early 1930s out of disgust with the musical world.It was then that the eccentric Ornstein built his own music school, which he ran until his retirement in 1958.


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