The Seattle Symphony under conductor Gerard Schwarz has carved out a distinct and important niche among American orchestras, programming regionalist works that are neither sentimentally crowd-pleasing nor carrying the requirement of a master's degree in music to understand. Among their discoveries is Samuel Jones, born in Mississippi and for many years associated with the Rice University music department. The Concerto for tuba and orchestra and Symphony No. 3 recorded here take off from the strain of orchestral music that ...
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The Seattle Symphony under conductor Gerard Schwarz has carved out a distinct and important niche among American orchestras, programming regionalist works that are neither sentimentally crowd-pleasing nor carrying the requirement of a master's degree in music to understand. Among their discoveries is Samuel Jones, born in Mississippi and for many years associated with the Rice University music department. The Concerto for tuba and orchestra and Symphony No. 3 recorded here take off from the strain of orchestral music that has come down from Copland and are certainly designed to showcase the skills of a large orchestra. Both are uncommonly effective, and the orchestra and tuba soloist Christopher Olka never lose focus in music that has considerable technical difficulties. The tuba concerto was written in 2005, when the composer was 71; Schwarz has praised it effusively, and it's hard to argue with his evaluation. The work commemorates an aeronautical engineer at the Boeing corporation; its least...
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