Simpson: Exhortation II for Soprano Saxophone Solo Oboe Music_Oboe even more than in his

even more than in his Trio after Brahms

The third movement begins and ends with a cadenza where the saxophonist plays into the piano with the lid up and sustaining pedal depressed which produces sympathetic vibrations of the piano strings

'prison blues'

with one phrase that includes notes to low F (an octave below the treble staff)

Simpson: Exhortation II for Soprano Saxophone Solo Oboe Music_Oboe even more than in hisCode: JP4067 ISMN: 979 0 3019 0227 1 This 13. 5 minute solo, originally composed for oboe, was adapted for soprano saxophone in 2008. The solo is a set of four variations which exploit the many diverse aspects of the instrument. Although the movements are called "variations," they are not traditional variations in the sense of varying a pre existing theme or harmonic progression; rather, they display a different feature of the saxophone in each