Samuel Jones (composer)

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Samuel Jones (born June 2, 1935 in Inverness / Mississippi ) is an American composer , conductor and music teacher .

Life

Jones studied composition with Howard Hanson , Bernard Rogers and Wayne Barlow at the Eastman School of Music and studied conducting with Richard Lert and William Steinberg . After leading several smaller orchestras, he became conductor of the Rochester Symphony Orchestra . As a guest conductor he was a. a. with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra , the Houston Symphony Orchestra , the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra , the Prague Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra .

In Michigan he founded the Alma Symphony Orchestra at Alma College and the Delta College Summer Festival of Music . In 1974 he founded the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University . He headed it for six years as dean and taught here until his retirement in 1997 as a professor of composition and orchestral conducting. He also gave master classes for conductors and was 1987 - 88 President of the Conductors Guild .

Jones composed three symphonies and other orchestral works, an opera, an oratorio, chamber music and solo works.

Works

  • In Retrospect for chamber orchestra, 1959
  • Symphony No. 1 , 1959-60
  • Piano Sonata , 1961-62
  • Elegy for String Orchestra , 1963
  • Festival Fanfare , 1964
  • Overture for a City , 1964
  • A Christmas Memory , Opera, 1966
  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , 1972
  • Fanfare and Celebration , 1980
  • A Symphonic Requiem (Variations on a Theme of Howard Hanson) , 1983
  • Listen Now, My Children for orchestra, 1985
  • The Trumpet of the Swan , 1985
  • Two Movements for Harpsichord , 1989
  • Canticles of Time (Symphony No. 2) for choir and orchestra, 1990
  • Symphony No. 3 (Palo Duro Canyon) , 1992
  • The Seas of God, Fanfare-Overture for Chorus and Orchestra , 1992
  • Eudora's Fable: The Shoe Bird, A musical telling of Eudora Welty ’s fanciful story , 1995
  • The Temptation of Jesus , Oratorio, 1995
  • Sonata for Cello and Piano , 1996
  • Janus Suite for Chamber Orchestra , 1998
  • Roundings , symphonic suite, 2000
    • Hymn to the Earth
    • Machines
    • The open range
  • Aurum Aurorae for orchestra and organ, 2001
  • Chorale-Overture for Organ and Orchestra 2003

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Joanna R. Smolko:  Jones, Samuel. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, conductor and music educator
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Inverness, Mississippi