Unmasking What Matters: 10 Life Lessons from 10 Years on Broadway

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sigurd Raschèr, Marcel Mule, John-Edward Kelly, Frederick Hemke, Anders Lundegård, Kenneth Tse, Eugene Rousseau, James Houlik, Steve Duke, Lawrence Gwozdz, Clifford Leaman, Laurence Wyman, Debra Richtmeyer, Paul Cohen, Lin Chien-Kwan, Roger Greenberg, Lee Patrick, Jay Easton, Paul Brodie, John Sampen, Theodore Kerkezos, John Moore, Kenneth Radnofsky, Jay Berckley, Frederic Hemke, Joseph Lulloff, Larry Teal, Greg Banaszak, Jean-Marie Londeix, Timothy Mcallister, Otis Murphy. Excerpt: Anders Olof Lundegård is a Swedish classical saxophonist. Lundegård is best known for his cello -like tone and intense performance style. Anders Lundegård was born in Växjö , Sweden, and made his debut at seventeen as a soloist and broadcast performer during a youth artist festival in Stockholm . He earned his undergraduate degree as a student of Christer Johnsson at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm, whereupon he received both a Fulbright and a Sweden America Foundation award to continue his studies in the United States . Lundegård completed his Masters, Certificate of Performance and Doctoral degrees at Northwestern University , studying under the renowned saxophonist Frederick Hemke . During this time he received three awards, toured with the Swedish chamber orchestra Musica Vitæ , had several works dedicated to him, and won the Northwestern Solo Concerto Competition, performing the subject of his dissertation: the Lars-Erik Larsson Saxophone Concerto. Lundegård has taught (most recently at West Chester University ) and toured extensively in Scandinavia and America, performing contemporary chamber, Baroque transcriptions and Classical concerti. As a young musician, he claims to have been inspired by an anecdote from the saxophones early experimental stages in the 1850s. During an in...