Samuel Jones (composer)

Samuel Jones (composer)

Samuel Jones (born June 2, 1935) is an American composer and conductor.

Biography

Samuel Jones was born in Inverness, Mississippi in 1935. He received his undergraduate degree with highest honors from Millsaps College in 1957 and subsequently attended Eastman School of Music, studying composition under Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers, and Wayne Barlow, and conducting under Richard Lert and William Steinberg. He graduated from Eastman with a M.A. and Ph.D in music composition. Jones served as conductor for a number of prominent American orchestras including the Rochester Philharmonic, before founding, in 1975, Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. He also served as its first dean for six years. After becoming Professor Emeritus of Composition and Conducting at Rice University in 1997 Jones moved to Seattle, Washington where he currently serves as Composer in Residence of the Seattle Symphony. His notable students include Gabriela 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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