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Apologies if this has already been posted but I couldn’t find a memorial for Dr Rousseau on the site.
As a small child I heard some music and did not know what it was. It stuck with me and many years later I discovered that it was the recording by Eugene Rousseau of Fantasia for soprano saxophone, 3 horns and string orchestra by Heitor Villa-Lobos.
That inspired me to play saxophone. My wife and I met Dr Rousseau in Germany many years later and had a pleasant conversation with him. I was sad to hear he had died back in 2024. My condolences to those close to him.
The first movement of the Fantasia
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wOz86MZAMcM&pp=0gcJCQYLAYcqIYzv&ra=m
As a small child I heard some music and did not know what it was. It stuck with me and many years later I discovered that it was the recording by Eugene Rousseau of Fantasia for soprano saxophone, 3 horns and string orchestra by Heitor Villa-Lobos.
That inspired me to play saxophone. My wife and I met Dr Rousseau in Germany many years later and had a pleasant conversation with him. I was sad to hear he had died back in 2024. My condolences to those close to him.
The first movement of the Fantasia
