Yellowstone for Violin and Orchestra

Track Listings

1. Yellowstone

2. Dunraven

3. Hoodoos

Editorial Reviews
Keith Bramich, Music and Vision, November 9, 2002
. . . full of the grandeur of the park . . . unashamedly romantic, with soaring violin melodies . . . super score for some Spielberg cinematic blockbuster.

Album Description
Inspired by countless rides through the Yellowstone backcountry, Jett Hitt's Yellowstone for Violin and Orchestra is destined to become a classic. It could have only been written by someone who lives Yellowstone, and Jett Hitt has ridden horseback through more than 1,200 miles of Yellowstone's 2.2 million acres. In the words of the Yellowstone Park historian, Dr. Lee Whittlesey, "It is Yellowstone."

Yellowstone for Violin and Orchestra, Music, Jett Hitt, Kirk Trevor, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Concerto

Average customer rating:

NOT ENOUGH STARS

A moving piece of music

One of the Most Stirring Pieces I've ever Heard

Masterful

A Promising Beginning, But Hardly A Masterpiece

Yellowstone for Violin and Orchestra

Manufacturer: Yellowstone Wildernes
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009EPYE
Release Date: 2002-04-16

Tracks:

Yellowstone
Dunraven
Hoodoos

Album Description

Inspired by countless rides through the Yellowstone backcountry, Jett Hitt's Yellowstone for Violin and Orchestra is destined to become a classic. It could have only been written by someone who lives Yellowstone, and Jett Hitt has ridden horseback through more than 1,200 miles of Yellowstone's 2.2 million acres. In the words of the Yellowstone Park historian, Dr. Lee Whittlesey, "It is Yellowstone."

Customer Reviews:

NOT ENOUGH STARS.......2007-07-06

There are not enough stars to rate this. I heard this piece several years ago on our classical music station here in SLC. I fell in love with it then. It inspired me to travel to Yellowstone which became my most favorite place on earth. This music is one of the greatest treasures I own. It fills the soul the way Yellowstone does. It is an emotional musical portrait that carries one away. Musically, it is subperb, masterful, but not corny. The colors this composer paints with his musical skill is incredible. I give this CD away as presents as much as possible. I will agree with another reviewer, this is one of the finest American pieces written - ever! Play it, let the music carry you into this wonderful place. The beauty and power of this music brings one easily to tears.

A moving piece of music.......2007-05-07

Close your eyes ,and let the music transport you to Yellowstone Park through the soul of Jett Hitt. A wonderful experience!

One of the Most Stirring Pieces I've ever Heard.......2006-10-12

Heard the finale on the radio and decided immediately I had to own this. Part western, part eastern, part modern, but mostly classical--it stirs up images and feelings that are beyond words. From expansive plains to the grand mountains, soft fields and calm waters...ahhh! Close your eyes and let the music take you to your inner realms. The music touches the soul.

Masterful.......2006-09-15

The previous reviewer would do well to recall a conversation between an educated theater-goer and composer Maurice Ravel. I believe it was immediately after the first performance of Ravel's "Bolero" -now an undisputed classic- that the audience was so outraged than many booed an left the theater. Ravel was approached by an angry ticket-holder who said "So you do not believe that dissonant chords must be resolved. What rule (of composition) do you follow?" Ravel replied "Mon pleasance" -my pleasure.

Rules of composition are rules only because they tend to deliver pleasing results when followed. When I heard this Concerto performed in concert the entire audience of thousands was *awestruck*, and many were weeping openly. To this day when I hear the Concerto on the radio I need to stop and pull over -the music is powerful enough that I can't listen and drive. I can think of no clearer indications of the quality of the music.

If others follow Hitt's lead and produce music of similar calibber, then very likely we'll soon have a new set of "rules". Stravinsky did it, and I enjoyed the entirety of Hitt's Yellowstone Concerto far more than I have ever cared for any movement from The Firebird.

A Promising Beginning, But Hardly A Masterpiece.......2006-07-14

This piece is meant as a tone poem of the American west. It has some very important and well-known exemplars in the works of Dvorak, Grofe and Hovhanness. The work itself shows that the composer has much promise, but at this point a reach that exceeded his grasp. A tone poem must have an internal rhyming structure. This does not. Tone poems have a progression. This work does not pick up its feet until the last movement. The first movement is interesting. The second movement is a long noodling interplay between violin and orchestra that goes in no particular direction yet is too irritating to be impressionistic. Much of this music will sound familar. That familarity comes from the syrupy overlays of horns and percussive flourishes that are staples of much incidental music in movies and on television. The third movement attempts some themes and motifs but they are never allowed to blossom. I would go so far to say that the violin was the wrong lead instrument for this piece. Violins are very speech-like and can have a danceable quality from folk motifs. Violins (or fiddles) are more associated with Eastern American music than Western. Whens violins noodle, they sound like human whining. Tone poems about the West call for horns, and the horns here are relegated to second fiddle (pun intended). Nevertheless, this is a promising beginning for a new composer. Someone has to take up the mantle laid down by Hovhaness and Hitt may be just the man to do it.

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