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Hemke Concerto, the Glossary

The Hemke Concerto "Prisms of Light" is a concerto for solo alto saxophone and orchestra by the American composer Augusta Read Thomas.^[1]

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2013 compositions
Compositions by Augusta Read Thomas
Saxophone concertos

Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments.

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Augusta Read Thomas (born April 24, 1964) is an American composer and University Professor of Composition in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago, where she is also director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition.

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Bass trombone

The bass trombone (Bassposaune, trombone basso) is the bass instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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Celesta

The celesta or celeste, also called a bell-piano, is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Concerto

A concerto (plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble.

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Frederick Hemke

Frederick L. Hemke, DMA (né Fred LeRoy Hemke Jr.; July 11, 1935 – April 17, 2019) was an American virtuoso classical saxophonist and influential professor of saxophone at Northwestern University.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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G. Schirmer, Inc.

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Hartford Courant

The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.

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