Symphonic relief

As mentioned previously, I've been in Miami all week with the New World Symphony. This Saturday's concert, a benefit for the Hurricane Katrina relief effort, will be broadcast on NPR. It's quite a program for the saxophone, featuring Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story as well as Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Suites 1 & 2. (For the record, the tenor saxophone entrance in the Second Suite's "Montagues and Capulets" is as close to fear a saxophonist will ever feel in orchestral literature--sit for the whole movement and then come in "cold" on a piano low C#.) Kenji Bunch's Lichtenstein Triptych rounds out an exciting program. If you're intersted in listening to the concert, click here for a list of NPR affiliates carrying the concert. If your local affiliate isn't carrying the show and you still want to listen, visit WLRN 91.3 and click on "listen live" to stream the broadcast. Downbeat is 8pm EST.