Dokwerk Saxophone Quartet at the Singer Laren

The program of the Dokwerk Saxophone Quartet focuses on living composers. If you leave Mozart and Beethoven aside for once and give the composers of today a voice, how will it sound this afternoon? There are as many answers as there are people because everyone is different in the world and perceives differently. And yet there are similarities, universal human movements that repeat themselves. Do you find yourself in the language and stories of one of these contemporary composers?

You could describe the program Philip Glass (*1937) as the king of minimalism. You can hear that in his ' Quartet for Saxophones ' (1995), but also that this work can be dated back to an older style period: there is more freedom, the music moves and develops faster, motifs are repeated, but it is less static.

His younger American compatriot David Biedenbender (*1984) wrote ' you've been talking in your…