The Ford Made in America consortium is made up of orchestras from all 50 states that collectively commission and perform new works, giving the pieces a kind of extensive exposure almost unheard of for contemporary orchestral music. The first commission, for Joan Tower's Made in America, was a huge success, receiving over 80 performances, and the CD of the performance with the Nashville Symphony won three Grammys, so the consortium is continuing its winning formula. The second commission went to Pulitzer Prize-winning Joseph ...
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The Ford Made in America consortium is made up of orchestras from all 50 states that collectively commission and perform new works, giving the pieces a kind of extensive exposure almost unheard of for contemporary orchestral music. The first commission, for Joan Tower's Made in America, was a huge success, receiving over 80 performances, and the CD of the performance with the Nashville Symphony won three Grammys, so the consortium is continuing its winning formula. The second commission went to Pulitzer Prize-winning Joseph Schwantner (born 1939), a masterful and inventive orchestrator with a distinctive, recognizable style, whose work makes full use of contemporary techniques in orchestral and chamber pieces that appeal to broad audiences. The resulting work, Chasing Light..., written in 2008, is recorded here by Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony along with the composer's 1994 Concerto for percussion and orchestra and Morning's Embrace from 2005. The three works demonstrate a character...
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