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Last updated 23rd January 2012

New Year Newsletter 2012

New partnership update

Our partnership with JUNE EMERSON WIND MUSIC has proven to be very successful. This merger allows for the on-going choice by customers to either select the hardcopy or E-EDITION in the purchase of our music.

Recently published SAXOPHONE titles

CLARINET, FLUTE, OBOE titles

Many new pieces for clarinet, flute and oboe were published last year. We have recently added PDF sample pages as well as Scorch samples for all the scores on the website.

New titles coming soon

SAX CIRCUS CD - Special offer


£5.00 (rrp £12.00)

The National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain

12-track roller coaster ride of the familiar and unexpected including Bolero, Simon's Mangrove Groove, Dowd's Favourite and Mozart's Magic Flute Overture.

All E-Editions - 20% discount

As of next month our prices (both hardcopy and E-Editions) will be increased by approximately 5%. However, as our valued customers, we wanted to let you know in advance and allow you the opportunity to purchase our E-EDITIONS prior to the price increase on 1st February 2012. Just enter the coupon code at the bottom of the online order form when ordering the E-Editions.

COUPON CODE: JAN2012 (Offer valid until 31st January 2012. Not applicable for hardcopy orders from JUNE EMERSON WIND MUSIC)

Wishing you all the best for 2012
The Saxtet Publications Team


New Partnership with June Emerson Wind Music

June Emerson

We are delighted to inform you of our new partnership with JUNE EMERSON WIND MUSIC. As of 13th December 2010, June Emerson Wind Music will be responsible for printing and distributing all hardcopy titles in our catalogue.

Hardcopies

Customers will now have a choice to purchase our music in hardcopy or E-Editions. A link for each work on the Saxtet Publications website will take you directly to www.juneemerson.co.uk in order to purchase your hardcopy selection.

E-editions

You can still download E-Editions via www.saxtetpublications.com

We are excited about this new partnership and can assure you of the same excellent service you have always received from Saxtet Publications.


Sax Circus CD

Sax Circus CD

As many of you will be aware, Saxtet Publications has sponsored the NSC since its inception, and the latest outcome of this fruitful collaboration is the Choir's third and definitely most sizzling CD to date, Sax Circus.

Introduced by one of the world’s most engaging items of musical theatre, the Magic Flute Overture, this fast-moving, sax family show conjures up all the atmosphere of big top thrills in the title track, plus high-energy dance and Boogie, colour from Spain and America and all kinds of spectacle, both awesome (Bolero) and camp (Bohemian Rhapsody). There’s much more, including tears and pathos, and you can even recreate the experience with your own ensemble as 9 of the 12 tracks which will be published by Saxtet Publications.


National Saxophone Choir in distinguished company!

Sunday 21st June saw the NSC in titled company when patron Lord Robert Winston joined players at the opening weekend of Sir John Dankworth and Dame Cleo Laine's 2009 Music in the Garden season at Wavendon. He played a stunning star role as narrator in Mike Brogan's vivid arrangement of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, raising goosebumps with the drama of his delivery even in the idyllic summer sun. When the spotlight turned to the hot soloing of John Dankworth and Alan Barnes in Karen Street's Carnival, Lord Robert was happy to dust down his sax and join the troops in the back row, re-living his appearance with the Choir in BBC 1's Play It Again.

Clearly relishing the company, the Choir gave one of its best and happiest performances to the families gathered in the Dankworths' pavilion. Much of its programme, in a variety of formats, is available from Saxtet Publications: Mrs Malcolm, Her Reel; Largo al Factotum; Duende; Under the Veil; Nimrod; Carnival; Bolero; Shetland Sequence. This is scarcely the start of the summer for the Choir, which now turns its attention overseas, with performances booked for early July at the World Saxophone Congress in Bangkok, and for August at Klassiek op Locatie in the Netherlands.


NSC Series

NSC

Saxtet Publications' relationship with the National Saxophone Choir flourishes with news that Saxtet Publications is soon to publish works composed by members for the National Saxophone Choir and the National Saxophone Ensemble. Titles in this new NSC Series will be published as E-Editions in order to maximize value and accessibility.

SXP already publishes many works written for the NSC by Musical Director Nigel Wood and other composers, but the NSC Series reflects the increasing number of talented composers and arrangers that are emerging from the ranks of the Choir.

The NSC Series acnowledges the growing prominence of their titles in Choir repertoire, but also aims to make their work more widely known, to stimulate more potential writing talent - and to earn them a modest return on the time and talent they invest.

The series is due to launch later this year, when scores will be made available on www.saxtetpublications.com.


E-Scores

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