Samuel Jones: Symphony No. 3, & 'Palo Duro Canyon', Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra

'Samuel Jones is a sensitive musicianwith great imagination, and he is a realcraftsman. These works should be partof the core of the great Americanrepertoire' (Gerard Schwarz). Of hisSymphony No. 3, Jones writes:'I wanted to capture in music thatmagical moment which everyoneexperiences when they first see the flat,treeless high plains fall dizzyingly awayinto the colorful vastness of the PaloDuro Canyon itself.' His Tuba Concerto,which Schwarz regards as 'the finestsolo work for that instrument

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