Capitol Quartet promises to put the pop in Midland Symphony Orchestra's holiday concert

Saxophones and symphonies don’t mix, or so goes popular thought. The soulful sax was once known as the devil’s instrument. To this day, said David Stambler, who plays tenor sax in the Capitol Quartet, it doesn’t have a permanent seat in the traditional symphony orchestra even though it was originally invented for classical music. But when the two cross paths, as the Midland Symphony Orchestra and the Capitol Quartet will Saturday, Dec. 10, at the Midland Center for the Arts, the result is electric. “Swingin’ Holiday Pops,” with guest conductor Joan Landry wielding the baton, opens with a pre-concert interlude with Central Michigan University’s Central Wails Saxophone Orchestra, led by professor John Nichol, and then jumps into an energetic blend of favorite Christmas songs and swingin’ classics.

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