My first saxophone teacher played this for me on cassette tape in Sinta's office in the mid-nineties. It's just as impressive today as it was the first time I heard it. Thanks for the upload!
Thanks, Stephen! Almost forgotten history of the University of Oklahoma Bands. BTW, Sinta performed with my high school, Durant, OK, as an OMEA honor band in 1968. Fabulous memories!!
Sinta was my teachers teacher teacher 😂 my teacher would always play this to show us double tounging. And i showed him this ams he was like now you know why i play it
Vittorio Monti looked like the villain who tied the girl to the railroad tracks before the Canadian Mounty came to her rescue. Come to think of it, Czardas sounds a little like the soundtrack to such a story. Don Sinta could play that perfectly, which I know because I heard him. Unfortunately, this was not the best performance; he may have had a bad night? Dropped a lot of notes in the double-tongued passages. But fear not; Sinta could nail that piece like Al Gallodoro, and did most of the time. Great player. One of those prodigy kids who could play all the concertos while he was still in junior high. He was a student of Larry Teal at U of Mich. Teal would bring him into his master classes of college kids when Sinta was just a squirt, and Sinta would mop the floor with those guys. These stories relayed to me by Harley Rex, another of Larry Teal’s students. At the International Concours de Saxophone in Gap, France, in 1978, there were basically two groups of impressive students competing for the prize: those of Jean Marie Londeix in Bordeaux, and those of Donald Sinta. Also, a few from the Paris Conservatory. But Sinta’s students possessed an unsurpassed technique and musicianship beyond any of the so-called saxophone world. They were clearly the best performers of the competition, but they didn’t make it into the semi-finals. Why? I guess you’d have to ask the French judges at a French contest who awarded French prizes to French students playing French music. Apparently they weren’t quite ready for this advanced American contingency. I was shocked. (No, I wasn’t one of Sinta’s students) I don’t blame anyone for that. A French contest is for French people, really. Their ears are attuned to their own styles, not the America styles. It sure taught me a lot about how the music world works, and it took down the whole idea of “contests” a few pegs in my own respectful judgment. The Americans who had been studying with Daniel Deffayet (Paris) did quite well. Rita Kneusel, for instance. But it was unbelievable that Sinta’s students did not advance in the contest. Anyway, Don Sinta is/was a monster performer and apparently likewise as a teacher.
I heard him play this on soprano sax in 1980 and it was like lightning striking, incredible technique!
My first saxophone teacher played this for me on cassette tape in Sinta's office in the mid-nineties. It's just as impressive today as it was the first time I heard it. Thanks for the upload!
Thanks, Stephen! Almost forgotten history of the University of Oklahoma Bands. BTW, Sinta performed with my high school, Durant, OK, as an OMEA honor band in 1968. Fabulous memories!!
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Thank you so much for uploading this! Sinta was my teacher's teacher.
Sinta was my teachers teacher teacher 😂 my teacher would always play this to show us double tounging. And i showed him this ams he was like now you know why i play it
Sameeee
He almost sounds like Paganini with how clean and even the staccato sixteenths are in the dance section.
that is some speeeeedy tonguing there!
Now my grandson takes lessons from a student of Mr. Sinta....and loves her, as we loved Mr. Sinta, ,back in the day at Hartt.
Heard him play this on soprano sax two years later the Midwest Music Conference, a stellar performance.
Sinta is the master. Studied at University of Michigan.
Perfect! 😍
THE MAN
Don Sinta....always and forever an inspiration
delightful and virtuostic!
I remember seeing "Donald Sinta is GOD " written on a wall in a practice room at the University of Michigan school of music.
1:49 is that all tongued?? omg talent
The tounging...
Vittorio Monti looked like the villain who tied the girl to the railroad tracks before the Canadian Mounty came to her rescue. Come to think of it, Czardas sounds a little like the soundtrack to such a story. Don Sinta could play that perfectly, which I know because I heard him. Unfortunately, this was not the best performance; he may have had a bad night? Dropped a lot of notes in the double-tongued passages. But fear not; Sinta could nail that piece like Al Gallodoro, and did most of the time. Great player. One of those prodigy kids who could play all the concertos while he was still in junior high. He was a student of Larry Teal at U of Mich. Teal would bring him into his master classes of college kids when Sinta was just a squirt, and Sinta would mop the floor with those guys. These stories relayed to me by Harley Rex, another of Larry Teal’s students.
At the International Concours de Saxophone in Gap, France, in 1978, there were basically two groups of impressive students competing for the prize: those of Jean Marie Londeix in Bordeaux, and those of Donald Sinta. Also, a few from the Paris Conservatory. But Sinta’s students possessed an unsurpassed technique and musicianship beyond any of the so-called saxophone world. They were clearly the best performers of the competition, but they didn’t make it into the semi-finals. Why? I guess you’d have to ask the French judges at a French contest who awarded French prizes to French students playing French music. Apparently they weren’t quite ready for this advanced American contingency. I was shocked. (No, I wasn’t one of Sinta’s students) I don’t blame anyone for that. A French contest is for French people, really. Their ears are attuned to their own styles, not the America styles. It sure taught me a lot about how the music world works, and it took down the whole idea of “contests” a few pegs in my own respectful judgment. The Americans who had been studying with Daniel Deffayet (Paris) did quite well. Rita Kneusel, for instance. But it was unbelievable that Sinta’s students did not advance in the contest. Anyway, Don Sinta is/was a monster performer and apparently likewise as a teacher.
Is it double tonguing?
yes it is. he used this piece as an example of why saxophonists need to learn to double-tongue.