• Joan Tower
  • Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (1986)

  • Associated Music Publishers Inc (World)
  • 0.0.0.0/4.3.2+btbn.1/timp.2perc
  • 3 min
    • 15th February 2025, Sunset Center, Carmel, CA, United States of America
    • 16th February 2025, Sunset Center, Carmel, CA, United States of America
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Programme Note

Composer Note:

Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No. 1 was inspired by Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and employs, in fact, the same instrumentation. In addition, the original theme resembles the first theme in the Copland. It is dedicated to women who take risks and who are adventurous. Written under the Fanfare Project and commissioned by the Houston Symphony, the premiere performance was on January 10, 1987, with the Houston Symphony, Hans Vonk, conductor. This work is dedicated to the conductor Marin Alsop.

-- Joan Tower

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Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No. 1

Reviews

Joan Tower, the Distinguished Visiting Composer [at the DuMaurier New Music Festival], describes her music as being lyrical. Certainly in her Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman (wonderful title) and her violin concerto there were moments of lyrical beauty, but the prevailing emotion seems to be one of great strength.
Neil Harris, Winnipeg Free Press
24th January 1996

Discography

Title Unavailable
  • Label
    RCA Victor Red Seal
  • Catalogue Number
    60778, 63861
  • Conductor
    Leonard Slatkin
  • Ensemble
    St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Title Unavailable
  • Label
    Koch Intl. Classics
  • Catalogue Number
    7469
  • Conductor
    Marin Alsop
  • Ensemble
    Colorado Symphony Orchestra

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