- Samuel Jones (composer)
Samuel Jones (born
June 2 ,1935 ) is an Americancomposer and conductor.Biography
Samuel Jones was born in
Inverness, Mississippi in 1935. He received his undergraduate degree with highest honors fromMillsaps College in 1957 and subsequently attendedEastman School of Music , studying composition underHoward Hanson ,Bernard Rogers , andWayne Barlow , and conducting underRichard Lert andWilliam Steinberg . He graduated from Eastman with a M.A. andPh.D in music composition. Jones served as conductor for a number of prominent American orchestras including theRochester Philharmonic , before founding, in 1975, Rice University’sShepherd School of Music . He also served as its first dean for six years. After becoming ProfessorEmeritus of Composition and Conducting at Rice University in 1997 Jones moved toSeattle, Washington where he currently serves as Composer in Residence of theSeattle Symphony . His notable students includeGabriela Lena Frank .Works
Theater
*A "Christmas Memory"
*"The Temptation of Jesus"Orchestral
*"Aurum Aurorae"
*"Chaconne and Burlesque"
*"Chorale-Overture for Organ and Orchestra"
*"Elegy"
*"Fanfare and Celebration"
*"Festival Fanfare"
*"In Retrospect"
*"Janus"
*"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
*"Listen Now, My Children"
*"Overture for a City"
*"Roundings: Musings and Meditations on Texas New Deal Murals"
*"Three Suites From Roundings"
**"I: Hymn To The Earth"
**"II: Machines"
**"III: The Open Range"
*"Symphony No. 1"
*"Symphony No. 3 (Palo Duro Canyon)"
*"A Symphonic Requiem (Variations on a Theme of Howard Hanson)"Chorus and Orchestra
*"Canticles of Time (Symphony No. 2)"
*"Eudora’s Fable: The Shoe Bird"
*"Gaudeo"
*"Reunion Benediction"
*"The Seas of God (Fanfare-Overture)"
*"The Trumpet of the Swan"Concerti
*"Tuba Concerto"
*"Horn Concerto"olo and Chamber
*"Four Haiku"
*"How Do I Love Thee?"
*"Piano Sonata"
*"Sonata for Cello and Piano"
*"Sonata for Unaccompanied Viola (In the Style of J.S. Bach)"
*"Spaces for Unaccompanied Cello & Narrator"
*"Two Movements for Harpsichord"External links
* [http://samueljones.net/index.html Samuel Jones official website]
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