On Tuesday the quartet will play selections from its traditional repertoire (including a piece commissioned by Adolphe Sax in 1858) as well as modern offerings and transcriptions of Bach and Joplin.

This is because a standard piano has 88 keys. There is the World Drummers Day too on April 4, and Saxophone Day on November 6, birthday of the instrument’s inventor Adolphe Sax.

Have you ever heard a Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in the 1840s? It is a versatile woodwind instrument known for its smooth, expressive sound. Saxophonists are musicians who use the smooth ...

His father had a particular interest in composing music for new instruments and wrote several works for the euphonium and alto saxophone, which had just been invented by Adolphe Sax, making it obvious ...

Portland's all-women sax quartet, the Quadraphonnes, shown here in a provided photo. The band will perform the music of the eccentric artist Moondog at the Alberta Rose Theater on Friday, March 7 ...

Celebrated concurrently with the birthday of musician and inventor Adolphe Sax, National Saxophone Day celebrates the single-reed woodwind instrument that has shaped bands and orchestras for more ...

Dive into the extraordinary early life of Adolphe Sax, surviving numerous accidents before creating the iconic saxophone.

Chris Almeida writes about the Selmer Mark VI, a saxophone produced from 1954 to 1974, whose sound is treasured by musicians in the jazz world.

We shared our music and our vision, that the saxophone conquers the classical stages of the world, just like its inventor Adolphe Sax intended," said Claus Hierluksch of Arcis Saxophon Quartet.

Music PhD candidate Samuel T. Nemeth recently gave a colloquium talk for the Pennsylvania State University Musicology and Music Theory Program. Nemeth’s presentation, “Battle of the Bands: Adolphe Sax ...