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• When the Border Patrol came to my neighborhoodDecember 4, 2025
  This is going to be a political post, unrelated to anything saxophone. I will get back to saxophone history in the new year. Since it’s my blog, I decided I needed to tell this story. On November 15th, the Border Patrol led by the Nazi Greg Bovino came to Charlotte. Why do I call himContinue reading “When the Border Patrol came to my neighborhood”
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die Kathrin; the jazz age opera Nazi’s tried to destroyApril 7, 2025
  Erich Wolfgang Korngold is one of the most celebrated late romantic composers in the 20th century. A child prodigy whose brilliance was celebrated by Mahler and Richard Strauss, Korngold wrote his first opera, Die tote Stadt at the age of 23. Korngold was committed to late romantic harmony, he was unmoved by the new stylesContinue reading “Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die Kathrin; the jazz age opera Nazi’s tried to destroy”
• Saxophone Mythbusters: Ibert’s Concertino da Camera is NOT BebopFebruary 17, 2025
  In the saxophone world, I sometimes hear saxophone professors proclaim ideas that are based on questionable knowledge of the history of saxophone literature and performance practice. After recently hearing from not one professor, but two, that Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da Camera is bebop I feel the need to provide a quick refresher of the relationshipContinue reading “Saxophone Mythbusters: Ibert’s Concertino da Camera is NOT Bebop”