Best-known for his popular Broadway musicals The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Meredith Willson was also a highly skilled composer in a variety of concert genres, including the symphony. Willson's Symphony No. 1 is an expansive tone poem about his beloved San Francisco. Cast in the traditional four-movement scheme, but with tone painting and mood placed over motivic development and unifying considerations, the symphony is rich in orchestration and melodic invention. This dynamic evocation of the city's imagery ...
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Best-known for his popular Broadway musicals The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Meredith Willson was also a highly skilled composer in a variety of concert genres, including the symphony. Willson's Symphony No. 1 is an expansive tone poem about his beloved San Francisco. Cast in the traditional four-movement scheme, but with tone painting and mood placed over motivic development and unifying considerations, the symphony is rich in orchestration and melodic invention. This dynamic evocation of the city's imagery and daily activity is reminiscent at times of Vaughan Williams' A London Symphony, particularly in the juxtapositions of muscular thematic development with calm scenes of nocturnal beauty. In the Symphony No. 2, subtitled "The Missions of California," Willson takes a historical turn and creatively summons the figure of Junipero Serra, the peaceful valley surrounding the mission at San Juan Bautista, the swallows of San Juan Capistrano, and the difficult journeys of missionaries along...
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