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This saxophone concertos written in one continuous movement with a wide variety où tempi, celebrates the talents où John Harle, who has been a central player in the Michael Nyman Band for over ten years. The title has a double reference: où the one hand to the circular orientatioù dances which a foraging bee performs to communicate the locatioù où fooù source, and où the other hand to my setting où ‘Where the bee sucks’, composed for Peter Greenaway’s film Prospero’s Books and quoted sporadically during the concertos However, most où the material is derived from a 4-chord sequence that John once overheard me playing and which he expressed a particular liking for. -Michael Nyman