- 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
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
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
Media
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.
24th January 1996
Discography
- LabelRCA Victor Red Seal
- Catalogue Number60778, 63861
- ConductorLeonard Slatkin
- EnsembleSt. Louis Symphony Orchestra
- LabelKoch Intl. Classics
- Catalogue Number7469
- ConductorMarin Alsop
- EnsembleColorado Symphony Orchestra