Voices from Spoon River: Music and Story Narration
Editorial Reviews Thomas Bacon has held principal positions with the Detroit Symphony, the Berlin Radio Symphony, and the Houston Symphony. He is a member of Summit Brass, the St. Louis Brass Quintet, Opus 90, and is leader of The Golden Horn. He tours worldwide as soloist, chamber musician and recording artist, with recent tours to Japan, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Mexico, Canada and all across the United States. Twentieth Century Brass Soloists by Michael Meckna (Greenwood Press, 1994), profiles Mr. Bacon as one of the Twentieth Century's most influential and prominent soloists on brass instruments, along with Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Maurice André, Dennis Brain, Philip Farkas, and Barry Tuckwell. Thomas Bacon is a Yamaha Performing Artist. James Graber was born in California, and studied at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Arizona Opera Orchestra, and also plays regularly with the Phoenix Symphony. Formerly principal horn with the Orchestra of Santa Fe, his professional work also includes: the Houston Grand Opera, the Tucson Symphony, the Chautauqua Symphony, the Sarasota Music Festival, the Ernest Bloch Music Festival and the Grand Tetons Music Festival. Phillip Moll resides in Berlin but was born in Chicago and studied English literature at Harvard. He concertizes throughout the world and records and performs frequently as ensemble pianist and harpsichordist with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with many fine soloists, including singers Kathleen Battle, Kiri te Kanawa, and Jessye Norman, and instrumentalists Kyung Wha Chung, James Galway, Yehudi Menuhin, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Pinchas Zuckerman. He has recorded for EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, Capriccio, Denon, Koch, Philips, Decca, Schwann, Crystal, and RCA records. Mark Schultz was born in 1957 in Seattle, and is a freelance composer and co-editor of the music publishing company JOMAR Press in Austin, Texas. He has received degrees in Music Composition and Theory from The University of Nebraska at Omaha and The University of Texas at Austin where he is now Professor of Composition. Winner of many awards, including ASCAP the Rudolf Nissim Award, the Omaha Symphony Orchestra New Music Competition, International Horn Society Composition Competition, Schultz is an extremely active composer and his music has been performed all over the world. The Sarasota Festival, the Fontana Music Festival, the International Clarinet Association and the International Double Reed Society are among the many places where Mark Schultz has appeared as guest, composer-in-residence, or featured composer, with new works commissioned and performed for each occasion.
About the Artist
The Golden Horn made its first performance at the Sarasota Music Festival in 1993 and has since performed on concert series at festivals and universities all across the United States. In the summer of 1999, they delighted Japanese audiences in their first international tour. The Golden Horn consists of hornists Thomas Bacon and James Graber, who perform with piano and occasionally other instrumentalists or singers, combining standard horn repertoire with theater and interactive audience pieces, for a concert that is entertaining, enlightening, and educational.
Album Description
The Golden Horn plays the music of Mark Schultz. Featuring renowned hornist Thomas Bacon, the title tracks are based on the book by Edgar Lee Masters: "Spoon River Anthology." Also on the disc are composer Schultz's popular "Dinosaur pieces," and the "Beast Tales" based on Aesop's Fables. Other literary references include Willa Cather's "O Pioneers," and Edgar Allan Poe's "I and my Annabel Lee." An unusual disc, to say the least, featuring some brilliant horn playing, and some cool and innovative pieces by one of the hottest new composers on the classical music scene.
Voices from Spoon River: Music and Story Narration, Music, Mark Schultz, James Graber, Thomas Bacon, Phillip Moll, Classical, Classical Collections-Artist Desc., Classical Music, Classical Vocals
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Voices from Spoon River: Music and Story Narration
Manufacturer: Summit(Classical) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  General
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ASIN: B00003Q029 Release Date: 2000-01-11 |
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Album Description
The Golden Horn plays the music of Mark Schultz. Featuring renowned hornist Thomas Bacon, the title tracks are based on the book by Edgar Lee Masters: "Spoon River Anthology." Also on the disc are composer Schultz's popular "Dinosaur pieces," and the "Beast Tales" based on Aesop's Fables. Other literary references include Willa Cather's "O Pioneers," and Edgar Allan Poe's "I and my Annabel Lee." An unusual disc, to say the least, featuring some brilliant horn playing, and some cool and innovative pieces by one of the hottest new composers on the classical music scene.Track Listings:
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