The North American Saxophone Alliance is an organization for saxophone players from around North America. Members are required to pay dues, which vary depending on age. NASA hosts regional conferences for each of its 10 regions. It also hosts a biennial international conference. The 2012 conference will be held at Arizona State University.
The current president of NASA is John Nichol, from the Central Michigan University School of Music. The president elect is Cliff Leaman, from the University of South Carolina School of Music.
NASA is divided into eleven regions dividing Canada, the United States of America, and surrounding territories.
- Region 1: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska
- Region 2: California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Hawaii
- Region 3: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa
- Region 4: Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas
- Region 5: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan
- Region 6: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Puerto Rico
- Region 7: Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C.
- Region 8: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
- Region 9: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, Northwest Territories
- Region 10: Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island
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“The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.”
—Lucille Feynman, mother of American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
“In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can’t long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)