| | ||||||||
  | SPONSOR  | |||||||
| Produced in association with the American Composers Forum | ||||||||
| Sunday, January 10
Joan Tower's "Fanfares" On today's date in 1987, the Houston Symphony under Hans Vonk gave the first performance of a short, but stirring, orchestral work entitled "Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman" by the American composer Joan Tower. Since that date, Tower has gone on to write several more of these fanfares, all dedicated to specific "uncommon" women in the world of music, but back in 1987 the first in the series had no number and no specific dedicatee. It was intended as a "one of" piece, utilizing the same instrumentation as Aaron Copland's famous "Fanfare for the Common Man" written back in the 1940's. Tower's 1987 fanfare also had no specific dedicatee -- Tower said she intended it to be in honor of all women who, as she put it, "take risks and are adventurous." Some years later, however, she decided to add a dedication to conductor Marin Alsop -- who by that time had emerged as one of America's most successful conductors. So successful was Tower's 1987 "Fanfare" that, much to her bemusement, she was pressed to compose several more for specific occasions and to honor specific women: the Second was dedicated to Joan Bricetti, then the general manager of the St. Louis Symphony, the Third to Fran Richard, director of concert music at ASCAP, the Fourth to conductor JoAnn Falletta, and the Fifth to a patron of Colorado's Aspen Music Festival, Joan Harris. |  | Music Played on Today's Program: Additional Information:
Support Composers Datebook Your support makes our online services possible. Contribute Now.
| ||||||
| ||||||||
About the Program
0 التعليقات:
Post a Comment