Three Orchestral Works
THREE ORCHESTRAL WORKS BY DWIGHT BECKHAM, SR. marks a tremendous sample of American composer Dwight Beckham’s lyrical style and command of the orchestra. Based in Kansas, Beckham is part of an important generation of composers who, in the latter half of the twentieth century, persisted in their pursuit of a classically Romantic aesthetic. To this end, Beckham’s orchestral music is stalwartly thematic, crisply orchestrated, and centered on dramatic melodic and harmonic ideas.
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Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský conductor
1 Fanfare 40
Commissioned in 1996 for the opening of the Newton Mid-Kansas
Symphony Orchestra’s 40th season under the baton of Daniel Hege
2 Memorial Ode
Sine nomine by Ralph Vaughan Williams used by permission of the
Oxford University Press
Feather Sound (Symphonic Statements)
Commissioned by the Newton Mid-Kansas Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Daniel Hege
3 Statement I
4 Statement II
5 Statement III