Joanna G'froerer - Orchestral Works 8 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Director of the School of Music at the University of Oklahoma from 1998 to June 2005, Kenneth Fuchs has written for orchestra, band, chorus, jazz ensemble, and various chamber ensembles.

During his brief life, Charles Griffes was able to compose music of distinctive beauty. He was fascinated by the music of the French-Impressionist composers Debussy and Ravel but was also influenced by the Russian sounds of Scriabin and Mussorgsky.

Jack Gallagher' Symphony in One Movement Threnody has been acclaimed by in Tune magazine as 'enormously inventing' and by osterreichische Musikzeitschrift as 'a one-movement symphony of great colorfulness'.