World Saxophone Congress

The World Saxophone Congress was conceived by Paul Brodie (1934 – 2007)Paul Harvey, Saxophone, Publisher Kahn & Averill, 1995, {{ISBN|1-871082-53-6}}, {{ISBN|978-1-871082-53-1}}, 149 pages ([https://books.google.com/books?id=sZIIAQAAMAAJ&q=%22World+Saxophone+Congress%22+idea page 131]{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}) and co-founded in 1969 with Eugene Rousseau (1932 - 2024), holding their first Congress in Chicago.Richard Ingham, The Cambridge companion to the saxophone, Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1998, {{ISBN|0-521-59666-1}}, {{ISBN|978-0-521-59666-4}}, 226 pages. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=hA5dakk0vw8C&dq=%22World+Saxophone+Congress%22+1969&pg=PA48 page 48] {{dead link|date=February 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}) Eugene Rousseau writes:

:"The most memorable time I spent with Paul [Brodie] was our December, 1968 meeting in Chicago. It was during this meeting that he articulated his vision of the establishment of a world saxophone congress. It came to fruition in conjunction with the Midwest Band Clinic during the following year. The World Saxophone Congress, thanks to the dream of Paul Brodie, had become established.""[http://www.dornpub.com/SaxjPDF/RememberingPaulBrodie_hi_res.pdf Remembering Paul Brodie] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185754/http://www.dornpub.com/SaxjPDF/RememberingPaulBrodie_hi_res.pdf |date=3 March 2016 }}", Saxophone Journal, Dorn Publishing, May/June 2008 (page 44)

Paul Brodie himself recalls:

:"I went to an accordion congress in Toronto and I was so impressed that I thought "wouldn’t it be great to do this for the saxophone".... The next year I came back to the Midwest Band Clinic. I had written an article for Instrumentalist Magazine - "Towards a World Saxophone Congress", and I was invited to a meeting of the executive committee and they offered me the grand ballroom of the Sherman House Hotel for 16 December 1969. I asked other saxophone players to help me and nobody responded. I called Eugene Rousseau because I had met him in Seattle at a music convention.... So we met in September 1969 at the Holiday Inn at O’Hare Airport in Chicago and we stayed up all night designing the program and started to call everybody the next morning and by the time we held the first congress we thought that maybe 200 people would show up. Well over 500 saxophonists showed up.""[http://www.singingsax.com/documents/Paul_Brodie_interview.pdf Paul Brodie: Ambassador of the Saxophone] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318202123/http://www.singingsax.com/documents/Paul_Brodie_interview.pdf |date=18 March 2016 }}", interview by Willem Moolenbeek, 10 January 2000. Retrieved 11 November 2011

In 1981, a 7-member International Saxophone Committee (in French, Comite International du Saxophone, CIS)."[http://www.saxophonecommittee.com/history/statutes Statutes] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505025236/http://www.saxophonecommittee.com/history/statutes |date=5 May 2016 }}", International Saxophone Committee, website retrieved 11 November 2011 was set up to help organise the Congress.

Congress performers/participants have included Frederick Hemke, Eugene Rousseau, Donald Sinta, Patrick Meighan, Bruce Faulconer, One O'Clock Lab Band, Lee Patrick, Ronald Caravan, Paul Brodie, Lin Chien-Kwan, Roger Greenberg, Debra Richtmeyer, Kyle Horch, the Scottish Saxophone Ensemble,Formed in 1999, and invited performers at the XV World Saxophone Congress in Thailand in 2009. [https://archive.today/20120904070737/http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scottish-Saxophone-Ensemble/268181749875890?sk=info Facebook] | [http://www.myspace.com/scottishsaxophoneensemble Myspace] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618150025/http://www.myspace.com/scottishsaxophoneensemble |date=18 June 2012 }} the National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain,"[http://www.saxchoir.com/review-wsc-2006.php World Sax Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 8 July 2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415032858/http://www.saxchoir.com/review-wsc-2006.php |date=15 April 2012 }}", The National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain website, retrieved 26 November 2011. and Brian Brown

The World Saxophone Congress has been held in:

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• Richard Ingham, The Cambridge Companion to the Saxophone, Cambridge University Press, 1998, {{ISBN|0-521-59666-1}}
• Thomas Liley, Paul Brodie, Eugene Rousseau, A brief history of the World Saxophone Congress: 1969-2000, World Saxophone Congress, Published 2003, 42 pages

• [http://www153.pair.com/bensav/ang.1.html 12th World Saxophone Congress], (Montreal, 2000)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20030425165602/http://worldsax.com/ XIII. World Saxophone Congress] (Minneapolis, 2003) at Archive.org
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060923211401/http://www.worldsax.net/ XIV. World Saxophone Congress] (Ljubljana, 2006) at Archive.org
• [https://archive.today/20090207122134/http://www.wscxv.org/web/index.php XV. World Saxophone Congress] (Bangkok, 2009) at Archive.org
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20091114120652/http://www.wscxvi.com/ XVI World Saxophone Congress]}} (St Andrews 2012) | [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=93929133852&v=info Official Facebook page]
• [http://www.saxopen.com/?lang=en XVII World Saxophone Congress] (Strasbourg 2015) [https://www.facebook.com/saxopen2015?ref=hl Official Facebook page]
• [http://www.saxophonecommittee.com International Saxophone Committee], organisers of World Saxophone Congress
• [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22World+Saxophone+Congress%22&num=50&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=vid&ei=w0q9ToOUA9K28QPt3c2-BA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=4&ved=0CA4Q_AUoAw&biw=1686&bih=936 World Saxophone Congress] video clips via Google Video

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