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Apollo Saxophone Quartet

Part of the Turner Sims Autumn Season 2025

Add to my Calendar 28-10-2025 19:30 28-10-2025 21:30 36 Apollo Saxophone Quartet From engaging modern works from some of the most exciting new generation UK composers, to Looney Tunes! Join us for a concert of two contrasting halves from the always-innovative Apollo Saxophone Quartet. The first half features a specially selected mix of new compositions. They are cherry-picked from the Quartet’s library of over 120 premieres and commissions dedicated to the group over its history. Each of the five pieces showcases different aspects of the quartet’s highly distinctive sound world. They create moods, colours and textures, ranging from sublime and ethereal to driving, energetic and rhythmically compelling. The second set showcases a handpicked selection of vintage cartoons, with live music brilliantly re-orchestrated from the original scores by the quartet. They will be played on the big screen alongside the Apollo’s live performance of the scores. These incredible animations are brought back to life just as they were perceived, with live music, live sound effects and with the original voices recorded in the studio in the first half of the twentieth century. The dazzling imagination, skill, time and sheer effort involved in producing these seven minute cinematic wonders, well before the digital age, is astounding to see. Whether you are a child or an adult. expect a spellbinding and unforgettable performance. Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Turner Sims Concert Hall
University Southampton
Salisbury Road
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
England

Programme

Anonymous – Kaval Sviri
Claire Cope – Trapped
Eddie Parker – Cartoons
Grace-Evangeline Mason – In the Fragrant Air
Django Bates – Travel Cartoons for the Blind
~ Interval ~
Paul J Smith – Fox hunt (arr. Rob Buckland)
Frank Marsales – Lady, play your mandolin (arr Carl Raven)
Carl W Stalling – Haunted Mouse (arr. Jim Fieldhouse)
Carl W Stalling – Impatient Patient (arr. Carl Raven)
Adam Caird – Move with the Times

Performers

Apollo Saxophone Quartet

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Programme Note

From engaging modern works from some of the most exciting new generation UK composers, to Looney Tunes!

Join us for a concert of two contrasting halves from the always-innovative Apollo Saxophone Quartet.

The first half features a specially selected mix of new compositions. They are cherry-picked from the Quartet’s library of over 120 premieres and commissions dedicated to the group over its history. Each of the five pieces showcases different aspects of the quartet’s highly distinctive sound world. They create moods, colours and textures, ranging from sublime and ethereal to driving, energetic and rhythmically compelling.

The second set showcases a handpicked selection of vintage cartoons, with live music brilliantly re-orchestrated from the original scores by the quartet. They will be played on the big screen alongside the Apollo’s live performance of the scores. These incredible animations are brought back to life just as they were perceived, with live music, live sound effects and with the original voices recorded in the studio in the first half of the twentieth century.

The dazzling imagination, skill, time and sheer effort involved in producing these seven minute cinematic wonders, well before the digital age, is astounding to see. Whether you are a child or an adult. expect a spellbinding and unforgettable performance.

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