Carmen Suite Movement 3: Carmen Fantasia - Bizet arr. Holcombe

The Tomball Memorial High School Saxophone Quartet performs Bizet's Carmen Suite, arranged by Bill Holcombe and Bill Holcombe, Jr. This performance was a part of the group's send-off concert in preparation for their performance at the 2020 Music For All National Chamber Music Festival.
Maxwell Gray - Alto Saxophone I
Benjamin Bourg - Alto Saxophone II
Blaise Alfredson - Tenor Saxophone
Amber Wigle - Baritone Saxophone
Carmen Suite is a suite of orchestral music drawn from the music of Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen. First performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1875, Carmen’s breaking of conventions shocked and scandalized its first audiences. After the premiere, most reviews were critical, and the French public was generally indifferent. However, the music of Carmen has since been widely acclaimed for brilliance of melody, harmony, atmosphere, and orchestration, and for the skill with which Bizet musically represented the emotions and suffering of his characters.
Georges Bizet (1838-1875) registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become oneof the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.
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