American Variations: FIU Saxophone Quartet & Ensemble

American chamber music, marches and folk traditions meet in a concert by Florida International University’s Saxophone Quartet and Saxophone Ensemble, directed by Noah J. Brisson. The performance takes place Tuesday, November 24, at the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center. Part of America 250, the program marks the nation’s 250th anniversary with music spanning generations of American composers.

The quartet performs works by David Maslanka, Samuel Barber and Philip Glass, highlighting the contrasting textures possible within a four-player group. The larger ensemble presents music by John Philip Sousa, Edwin Eugene Bagley, Henry Fillmore, Charles Ives and Robert Russell Bennett, alongside a transcription of the traditional folk song “Shenandoah.”

Admission is free.