Maurice Ravel La création du monde (1923) – Darius Milhaud Symphony No. 4 (1924) – Charles Ives Rhapsody in Blue (1924) – George Gershwin Chôros No. 8 (1925) – Heitor Villa-Lobos Háry János (1926) – Zoltán Kodály Chôros No. 10 (1926) – Heitor Villa-Lobos Piano Concerto (1926) – Aaron Copland An American in Paris (1928) – George Gershwin Symphony No. 1 (1928) – Aaron Copland Der Wein (1929) – Alban Berg The Golden Age (1930) – Dmitri Shostakovich Belshazzar's Feast (1931) – William Walton Job: A Masque for Dancing (1931) – Ralph Vaughan Williams Suite No. 1 (1931) – Dmitri Shostakovich Uirapuru (1934) – Heitor Villa-Lobos Lieutenant Kijé (1934) – Sergei Prokofiev Violin Concerto (1935) – Alban Berg Suite No. 2 (1938) – Dmitri Shostakovich Romeo and Juliet (1938) – Sergei Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky (1938) – Sergei Prokofiev Symphonic Dances (1940) – Sergei Rachmaninoff Sinfonia da Requiem (1940) – Benjamin Britten Chôros No. 11 (1928–41) – Heitor Villa-Lobos Chôros No. 6 (1925–42) – Heitor Villa-Lobos Chôros No. 12 (1925–45) – Heitor Villa-Lobos Symphony No. 6 (1947) – Ralph Vaughan Williams On the Waterfront (1954) – Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 9 (1957) – Ralph Vaughan Williams Suite for Variety Orchestra (post-1956) – Dmitri Shostakovich The Prince of the Pagodas (1957) – Benjamin Britten Gruppen (1955–57) – Karlheinz Stockhausen Carré (1959–60) – Karlheinz Stockhausen Déclarations d'orage for reciter, soprano, baritone, three improvising instruments (alto saxophone, tuba, synthesizer), large orchestra and tape (1988–89) – Henri Pousseur City Noir (2009) – John Adams Selected operas and musicals with saxophones Hérodiade (1881) – Jules Massenet Werther (1892) – Jules Massenet Turandot (1926) – Giacomo Puccini Jonny spielt auf (1927) – Ernst Krenek Neues vom Tage (1929) – Paul Hindemith Lulu (1937) – Alban Berg Billy Budd (1951) – Benjamin Britten West Side Story (1957) – Leonard Bernstein We Come to the River (1976) – Hans Werner Henze Samstag aus Licht (1984) – Karlheinz Stockhausen Nixon in China (1987) – John Adams In jazz and popular music Coincident with the more widespread availability of saxophones in the US around the turn of the century was the rise of ragtime music. The bands featuring the syncopated African-American rhythmic influences of ragtime were an exciting new feature of the American cultural landscape and provided the groundwork for new styles of dancing. Two of the best known ragtime-playing brass bands with saxophones were those led by W. C. Handy