Duo for James Barger / Ben Still

ByWillem van Merwijk

Recently I was approached by James Barger from the Mirasol (saxophone) Quartet with a request to write a saxophone-duo to be premiered at the NASA 2016 in the USA. To fund this he and Ben Still started an initiative to be found at https://www.facebook.com/groups/895230693873146/
Looking forward very much to start writing on this duo.

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