
Canfield: Concerto after Dvorak for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble (score and parts)
Code: JP6044ISMN: 979-0-3019-0568-5 Concerto after Dvorak for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble by David DeBoor Canfield. Concerto after Dvorak was initiated when Canfield was contacted in January of 2017 by saxophonist MU1 Dana Booher on behalf of Capt. Kenneth Collins, director of the US Navy Band, to see if he would be interested in writing a work to help the Band celebrate the 40th anniversary of its annual Saxophone Symposium in January of 2018. The Band was particularly interested in having a work in Canfield's "After" series, a series of works he has been writing in the style of older composers who had never written for certain instruments. Booher proposed that the great Czech composer Antonin Dvorak serve as the model for the work, which was specified to be a concerto featuring saxophone quartet. Unlike most of Canfield's "After" pieces to date, this Concerto is in the major mode, although the slow middle movement is largely in the key of F Minor. The Concerto begins with a