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    Songs For Tony "gan writing a saxophone quart on New You's Eve 1992, Inthe carly afteroon of January 1993 Iwas informed that my fiend and business manager, Tony Simons, had died after a ong and heoic Fight agsioa acer. {immediately sat down and wrotc the music which became the last revere, in what become, ‘memorial quart. The previously composed musi wa scrapped as I decided a give each player, int a “ata of hither own, ‘The first ‘Song is transcription of an actual song - Mozart on Mortliy- which I wrote for the Composer's Ensemble inthe pring of 1982, Theteat, by Mozart hel salto appropri: “Tay nts ‘nother day”. The second songs adaped rom he muse orth senein Jane Campion’ lm The Piano wee the mute Ada Holly Hunter) pshes her chief means of communication bet pro, overboard Ths le wos the last major deal that Tony negotiated on my bebalf. The third song, a sprang sax soli based on nae "composed some year ago but was saving fra special ctaion Michael Nyman 1997 ‘Songs For Tony was commissioned by the Apollo Saxophone Quartet, who gavethe fist performance in the Purell Room, London, on 1 May 1993, INSTRUMENTATION ‘Soprano saxophone in B flat ‘Alto saxophone in Eat (doubling Tenor saxophone in B fat) ‘Tenor saxophone in B flat (doubling Baritone saxophone in flat) Baritone saxophone in E flat Duration c.10 minutes ‘A cording of Songs For Tony bythe Apollo Saxophone Quartet is available on ‘Fest & Foremost’ (Argo CD 443 903.2). 1 aicommencé dcrre un quatuor pour saxophone la veiled Jour de "An de 1992, Le S janvier 1993 en début = quiest devenu un quataor du souvenir. La masiqe précédemment composée a6téabandonnée cai décidé ‘de donne: chaque instruments, tour dere, une aria’ &livelle seule), |Lapremie ‘chanson’ st une transcription d'une chanson exstane - Mozarton Mortality que j'avais

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