WELCOME back, and, what a year it’s been! I can’t a recall a more exhausting quarter since my apprentice days with Alistair! We’re hard at work putting together an exciting season of spiritually charged performances for future performance!

News! Organization researchers have unearthed a new and exciting tidbit of historical trivia concerning the life of Adolphe Sax! You may expect a good deal of further elucidation of this tale in our upcoming production!

“Our story resumes in 1847 when Adolphe Sax brings his Saxophone to English composer Henry Peddleton. At this meeting, one of many made by Sax around this period in order to promote the use of his new instrument, Sax is alleged to have muttered the now famous (but apocryphal) phrase, ”’In Ohio, Monsieur P., we would call that maneuver a 'jelly roll.'’ ”The popular press of the time were, of course, not interested in the details of the precise time and place of this coinage. It is now generally attributed to Isaac Newton on his second voyage, and was most likely uttered by Sax, if at all, in jest—a biting jab at what he perceived as the prudish sensibilities of his Anglican host. And so it was picked up and distributed widely with the appellation "Antoine’s Jerri-Rub." Sax, of course, denied having said it at all, understandably, but the tide of popular myth was already rolling over him, and thus was born the first catchphrase. “Today, Sax's quip is largely forgotten, but it's legacy remains, woven into the living breath of the language of mass culture. Never again would small children feel compelled to go to sleep at night without their tiny fists raised in defiance of the powers that had persuaded their poor parents into various unwise business ventures. A fool and his money are soon parted? So it has been said, but it does give one pause to wonder: just who ensures that this must be so, and to what advantage might it have been turned if history had treated Monsieur Sax differently?”