146. Risk and adventure: Tower, Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman

Another great, short piece, here's the first of Joan Tower's Fanfares celebrating risk-taking and adventurous women. This is both celebratory and substantial, plus a workout for brass and percussion.

Listening time 8 mins (podcast 5.5', music 2.5')

Listen to the music, Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No.1, here on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon music played by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin. You can buy a recording of the piece here at Prestomusic.com (but you have to scroll all the way to the end of a long track listing)

 

On Youtube you can watch the work's dedicatee, Marin Alsop conduct this alongside Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.

And here there's a nice interview with Joan Tower - she seems like a fun person!

Copland's Fanfare was featured last time on Cacophony.

Stravinsky's Petrushka was episode 138.

 

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