On Thursday, January 5, 2006, at 08:50 PM, Corno wrote:
Charles Valenza
Hello, Charles! Thanks much for a great post about Hanson and
Eastman. I attended Eastman in the summer session of 1950. I needed a
couple of horn credits to complete my degrees at the University of
Oklahoma in
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To: horn@music.memphis.edu
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Howard Hanson Symphony #2- Romantic
Hi Paul, et al,
I've been told the horn parts were written with the
star horn players in mind who were
Just transferred from 'record' to cd a recording of Howard Hanson's Symphony #2
Op. 30 - Romantic, done by the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, conducted by Howard
Hanson. Interesting I find that we hear so little about that piece of music
when it's so filled with horn and such a 'stirring' 3
There is actually a CD recording under the Mercury label of that same piece.
Could have saved the trouble of transferring it and with much better quality
as well. Yes, few people outside of the USA know the piece - and it really
is a gem. Also good (and included on the same CD reissue) is the Song
In a message dated 12/26/2005 7:35:44 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is actually a CD recording under the Mercury label of that same piece.
Could have saved the trouble of transferring it and with much better quality
as well. Yes, few people outside of the USA
Actually, I've given this a lot of thought now that
I'm pushing 60. I credit Hanson No. 2 with getting
me to take up the horn.
As a high school student, and tuba player, I was
heavily into electronics. I was always trying to
log radio stations that were further and further
away from my home in
Hi, All. Hanson No. 2 is a great horn piece. It is really fun to
play. It stems from the early 30's, as I recall, when there were many
composers in the USA who were trying to write The Great American
symphony. Among those, beside Hanson, were Randall Thompson, and Roy
Harris and numerous
Franklin Butler scored the Interlochen Theme from the Hanson Romantic
for horn ensemble, which was played by one of the large groups on the
final concert of the IHS meet in Rochester in 1997. He offered copies
of his arrangement free to anyone who wrote him.When I finally got
around to
Two years ago I was privileged to hear Samuel Jones's Requiem Variations
on the Interlochen Theme. Jones studied composition with Hanson and the
two later became close friends. The Variations are, of course, in memoriam
Howard Hanson and are constructed so that the most complex variation
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·ï̾: Re: [Hornlist] Howard Hanson Symphony #2- Romantic
There is actually a CD recording under the Mercury label of that same
piece.
Could have saved the trouble of transferring it and with much better
quality
horn@music.memphis.edu
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Howard Hanson Symphony #2- Romantic
This work has some great horn parts! For those of us on a budget, I
picked up
a double disc recording of the 2nd symphony and 7th along with a smaller
work
or two if I'm
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