October Serenade - Noten für Sopran Saxophon + Gitarre Carson Cooman

October Serenade (2010) for soprano saxophone and guitar is dedicated to Paul Wehage.

The work was inspired by the season of autumn and harvest in western New York State&mdash,
particularly the colors of the foliage and landscape.

The opening section of the work is rhapsodic, as each instrument explores a series of soloistic
gestures. This leads directly into a lyrical aria sung first by the saxophone over a guitar
accompaniment&mdash,then briefly by the guitar. Suddenly, a joyous harvest-dance erupts. This ends
rather abruptly and a rhapsodic coda emerges, but a bit of the harvest-dance returns for a
energetic finish.