Traditionally, no applause follows its performance. Now known as the “Interlochen Theme”, it is conducted by a student concertmaster after the featured conductor has left the stage. One of its themes is performed at the conclusion of all concerts at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. This work was to become Hanson’s best known. 2, the “Romantic”, and premiered it on November 28, 1930. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky commissioned Hanson’s Symphony No. Hanson estimated that more than 2000 works by over 500 American composers were premiered during his tenure at the Eastman School. For thirty years from 1939 to 1969 Hanson made over one hundred recordings for RCA Victor, Mercury Records and Columbia Records with the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, not only of his own works, but also those of other American composers such as: Charles Ives, Wayne Barlow, John Alden Carpenter, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Alan Hovhaness, Homer Keller, John Knowles Paine, Burrill Phillips, Walter Piston, Bernard Rogers, Roger Sessions and William Grant Still. Later in 1939, he founded the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, which consisted of first chair players from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, faculty members from the Eastman School of Music and selected students from the Eastman School. As Hanson himself indicated this was “the first attempt at a rather complete presentation of the American picture in music.”
ANTIQUE RCA VICTOR RADIO RECORD PLAYER SERIES
This series presented orchestral, choral and chamber music composed by eighty two American composers from the mid 19th century to modern times. Hanson also engaged his student ensembles to present a similar series for the CBS radio network which he entitled Milestones in American Music. In recognition of these efforts, the Peabody Award for outstanding service to music was awarded to Hanson, the Eastman School and WHAM in 1946. This weekly series of programs presented a sweeping survey of the history of Western music which was broadcast locally in Rochester, New York on WHAM and nationally on the NBC Red Network. At this time he engaged the talents of student ensembles at the Eastman School to present Milestones in the History of Music on the radio. Hanson’s interest in educating the general public through innovative means became apparent as early as 1938. 4, and received numerous other awards including the George Foster Peabody Award for Outstanding Entertainment in Music in 1946. In 1944, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music. Howard Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. A recreation of a portion of the first concert given spotlighting new American composers which the Eastman-Rochester Symphony took part in on May 19, 1925. Īnother dose of Americana tonight, by way of the venerable Eastman-Rochester Symphony, conducted by none other than Howard Hanson.
Howard Hanson – stalwart for exposing new American music.
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