stevenbankssaxophone is putting the classical saxophone front and center on his beautiful debut album “Cries, Sighs, and Dreams.”🎷 Banks was the first saxophonist to earn an Avery Fisher Career Grant and is joined by fellow AFCG honorees doverquartet on the album's title track, which was written by Banks and inspired by composer Hector Berlioz’s reaction to hearing the saxophone for the first time. An impressed Berlioz wrote: “It cries, sighs, and dreams. It possesses a crescendo and can gradually diminish its sound until it is only an echo of an echo of an echo…” Listen to the album now: lnk.to/EyqTGv (link in bio) #AveryFisherArtists