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Annual American Composers Update
Samuel Jones
Samuel Jones is serving for his fifth year as Composer
in Residence for the Seattle (WA) Symphony Orchestra
for the 2001-2002 season. He was a faculty member of
the Donald Thulean Conducting Workshop presented in
April 2001 by the American Symphony Orchestra League.
His next commissions are for works to be performed by
the Seattle Symphony and individual members of the orchestra,
as well as a concerto for the Harrington String Quartet
and the Amarillo Symphony.
Premieres
Commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation and Meet the Composer
to honor Adolph Herseth at the American Symphony Orchestra
League Conference in Seattle, June 22, 2001, Aurum
Aurorae, for brasses, organ, and timpani, premiered
with Gerard Schwarz and members and guests of the Seattle
Symphony. Gunther Herbig conducted the Seattle Symphony
Orchestra in the first performance of Hymn to the
Earth (Suite No. 1 from Roundings), October
4-7, 2001. Eudora's Fable: The Shoe Bird, for
children's choir, narrator, and orchestra, based on
a children's story by Eudora Welty, commissioned by
the Mississippi Boychoir, Margaret Thomas, conductor,
is scheduled to be introduced by the group with Lester
Senter, narrator, and the University of Mississippi
Symphony Orchestra, Jay Dean, conductor and music director,
March 21-23, 2002 in Starkville, Columbus, and Jackson,
MS.
Performances
In 2001, the Seattle Youth Symphony, under Jonathan
Shames, played Elegy for String Orchestra May
21, and again at the American Symphony Orchestra League
Conference, in Seattle, June 21. Fanfare and Celebration
was heard in 2001 with the Santa Barbara (CA) Symphony,
Gisele Ben Dor, conducting, October 6-7; and with the
South Carolina Symphony, Donald Portnoy, conducting,
in Columbia, October 6. Joseph Eunkwan Choi led the
Maryland Chamber Orchestra in Janus, November
10, 2001, in College Park.
Publications
Aurum Aurorae; Hymn to the Earth (Suite No.
1 from Roundings); Machines (Suite No.
2 from Roundings); The Open Range (Suite
No. 3 from Roundings); all by Campanile Music
Press, Carl Fischer, Inc., exclusive agent.
Recordings: Cello Sonata, for cello and piano; the Fischer
Duo; Gasparo Records American Music of the 1990's
GSCD-349 CD.
Further Information
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