Howard Hanson

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Symphony No. 6: VI. Allegro 01:54 Tools
Allegro con Fuoco 11:34 Tools
Symphony No. 3, Op. 33: II. Andante tranquillo 08:49 Tools
Merry Mount Suite: Love Duet 05:44 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, "Romantic": I. Adagio - Allegro moderato 12:11 Tools
Dies natalis I: Finale: Poco a poco ritardando al tempo giusto 11:00 Tools
The Lament for Beowulf 02:08 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, "Romantic": II. Andante con tenerezza 06:40 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30, "Romantic": III. Allegro con brio 06:40 Tools
Symphony No. 7, "The Sea": I. Lo, the unbounded sea 06:30 Tools
Symphony No. 6 III. Adagio 05:44 Tools
Chorale and Alleluia, Op. 42 03:11 Tools
Concerto for Organ, Harp and Strings, Op. 22, No. 3 05:44 Tools
Symphony No. 6: III. Adagio 04:58 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic": III. Allegro con brio 02:30 Tools
Symphony No. 7, "The Sea": II. The untold want 06:30 Tools
Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever 03:19 Tools
Andante Teneramente, con Semplicita 06:30 Tools
Slumber Song 03:10 Tools
Symphony No. 3, Op. 33: Symphony No. 3, Op. 33: II. Andante tranquillo 06:30 Tools
Symphony No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 21, "Nordic": II. Andante Teneramente, Con Semplicita 06:32 Tools
Symphony No. 7, "The Sea": III. Joy, shipmate, joy! 06:40 Tools
Mosaics 11:56 Tools
Rhythmic Variations on Two Ancient Hymns 06:40 Tools
Symphony No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 21, "Nordic": I. Andante Solenne - Allegro Con Forza 13:44 Tools
Serenade, Op. 35 06:11 Tools
Lux aeterna, Op. 24 16:46 Tools
Merry Mount Suite, Op. 31: III. Love Duet 05:46 Tools
Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth 10:57 Tools
A Prayer for the Middle Ages 03:50 Tools
Children's Dance 01:49 Tools
Symphony No. 4, Op. 34, "The Requiem": I. Kyrie: Andante inquieto 04:58 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic": II. Andante con tenerezza (From "Alien") 10:57 Tools
Joy 01:49 Tools
Merry Mount Suite, Op. 31: IV. Prelude to Act II and Maypole Dances 06:38 Tools
Merry Mount Suite, Op. 31: I. Overture 03:18 Tools
Song of Democracy 12:03 Tools
Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitsky 12:40 Tools
Andante solenne - Allegro con forza 13:41 Tools
Overture 13:41 Tools
III. Scherzo for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra 10:57 Tools
Symphony No. 6: I. Andante 03:40 Tools
Merry Mount Suite, Op. 31: II. Children's Dance 01:45 Tools
Kikimora 01:11 Tools
For The First Time, For Piano 00:46 Tools
Symphony No. 6: II. Allegro scherzando 04:52 Tools
Symphony No. 4, Op. 34, "The Requiem": III. Dies irae: Presto 00:39 Tools
Pan and Priest, Op. 26 13:08 Tools
Lullaby 01:44 Tools
The Deserted House 02:15 Tools
Symphony No. 6: V. Adagio 02:54 Tools
Impromptu 02:46 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic": II. Andante con tenerezza 02:30 Tools
Symphony No. 6: IV. Allegro assai 02:08 Tools
Symphony No. 4, Op. 34, "The Requiem": II. Requiescat: Largo 00:46 Tools
Symphony No. 4, Op. 34, "The Requiem": IV. Lux aeterna: Largo pastorale 00:46 Tools
Prelude to Act II and Maypole Dances 07:08 Tools
Symphony No.2, Op.30 "Romantic": 1. Adagio - Allegro moderato 04:52 Tools
Pastorale 06:32 Tools
Triumphal Ode 12:03 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic": I. Adagio - Allegro moderato 04:50 Tools
March Carillon 06:38 Tools
Fireworks 06:32 Tools
Symphony No. 3, Op. 33: I. Andante lamentando - Agitato 02:30 Tools
Symphony No. 5, Op. 43, "Sinfonia sacra" 02:59 Tools
Reminiscence 06:32 Tools
II. Andante con tenerezza 07:21 Tools
Fantasy-Variations on a Theme of Youth, Op. 40 04:52 Tools
Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 21, "Nordic": III. Finale: Allegro con fuoco 10:39 Tools
Poema Idillico 03:11 Tools
The Stars and Stripes Forever 03:19 Tools
Studio Melodico 03:11 Tools
Poemes Erotiques, Op. 9: Peace 03:05 Tools
String Quartet, Op. 23 01:58 Tools
Clowns 00:57 Tools
The Eccentric Clock 00:53 Tools
Mist 03:04 Tools
Desire 00:53 Tools
Enchanment 01:17 Tools
Symphony No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 21, "Nordic": III. Allegro Con Fuoco 11:37 Tools
Dreams 03:04 Tools
Symphony No. 3, Op. 33: III. Tempo scherzando 01:13 Tools
Symphony No. 2 "Romantic": II. Andante Con Tenerezza 04:20 Tools
Symphony No.2, Op.30 "Romantic": 2. Andante con tenerezza 12:03 Tools
III. Allegro con brio 07:09 Tools
Symphony No. 2 "Romantic": III. Allegro Con Brio 07:55 Tools
Symphony No. 3, Op. 33: IV. Largamente e pesante 07:19 Tools
Dies natalis I: Introduction and Chorale: Maestoso 13:40 Tools
Dies natalis I: Variation 3: Pesante 04:27 Tools
Deep Forest 02:29 Tools
Studio ritmico 04:37 Tools
Dance 03:04 Tools
Poemes Erotiques, Op. 9: Joy 03:23 Tools
Chorale and Alleluia 05:17 Tools
2 Yuletide Pieces, Op. 19: March Carillon 02:10 Tools
Peace 03:04 Tools
Andante Espressivo 03:04 Tools
IV. Epilog 02:23 Tools
Dies natalis I: Variation 4: Andante calmo, nel modo Gregoriano 11:00 Tools
2 Yuletide Pieces, Op. 19: Impromptu 02:47 Tools
Dies natalis I: Variation 5: Allegro feroce 03:44 Tools
Concerto da camera, Op. 7 03:05 Tools
Bells 02:45 Tools
Dies natalis I: Variation 2: Allegro 01:46 Tools
Lumen in Christo: I. Largo 04:38 Tools
Piano Sonata In A Minor, Op. 11: I. Andante Espressivo 07:32 Tools
Summer Seascape II 08:26 Tools
Dies natalis II 14:34 Tools
Pastorale, Op. 38 06:17 Tools
Symphony No. 2 "Romantic": I. Adagio 04:20 Tools
For The First Time: Deep Forest 02:30 Tools
Symphony No. 2 ('Romantic') 02:50 Tools
Serious Conversation 01:09 Tools
Longing 02:45 Tools
Tamara and Peter Bolshoi 00:39 Tools
Elegie herbique 01:09 Tools
Act II Scene 2: Hale her to the village, A prisoner… (Tewke, Bradford) 00:39 Tools
Poemes Erotiques, Op. 9: Desire 04:20 Tools
Dies natalis I: Variation 6: Larghetto semplice 01:46 Tools
For The First Time: Dreams 03:05 Tools
Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"), Op. 30: 1. Adagio; allegro moderato 13:58 Tools
For The First Time: Mist 02:34 Tools
Act II Scene 2: Chorus of Mystic Voices 08:26 Tools
For The First Time: Fireworks 00:48 Tools
For The First Time: Tamara And Peter Bolshoi 00:46 Tools
Lumen in Christo: II. Andante 12:03 Tools
3 Miniatures, Op. 12: Lullaby 01:45 Tools
Piano Sonata in A minor, Op. 11: III. Triumphal Ode 02:48 Tools
For The First Time: Bells 01:58 Tools
Piano Sonata in A minor, Op. 11: II. Elegie herbique 06:36 Tools
Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"), Op. 30: 2. Andante con tenerezza 06:36 Tools
3 Miniatures, Op. 12: Reminiscence 02:59 Tools
3 Etudes, Op. 18: Studio Melodico 03:44 Tools
For The First Time: Dance 01:13 Tools
For The First Time: Kikimora 01:12 Tools
Act II Scene 1: Prelude - I wind and I wind, My true love to find (Men and Women) 02:30 Tools
For The First Time: Clowns 00:58 Tools
Symphony No.2, Op.30 "Romantic": 3. Allegro con brio 04:50 Tools
For The First Time: Serious Conversation 01:10 Tools
Symphony No. 2 07:55 Tools
3. Allegro con brio 07:55 Tools
Act II Scene 3: Alleluia! Alleluia! (Bradford, Lucifer, Monsters, Witches and Demons) 02:30 Tools
Act III Scene 2: Ay, even now thy lover frets at Hellgate - Death to the Witch (Bradford, Marigold, Ensemble) 02:30 Tools
I. Prelude - II. Fantasy for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra 03:44 Tools
3 Miniatures, Op. 12: Longing 02:46 Tools
3 Etudes, Op. 18: Studio Ritmico 04:38 Tools
3 Etudes, Op. 18: Poema Idillico 03:12 Tools
For The First Time: The Eccentric Clock 00:54 Tools
Dies natalis I: Variation 1: Poco più mosso 05:44 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic" : 1. Adagio - Allegro moderato 01:09 Tools
I. Adagio - Allegro moderato 13:36 Tools
Act II Scene 3: Rise up, my love my fair one (Bradford, Astoreth) 03:44 Tools
Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"), Op. 30: 3. Allegro con brio 07:19 Tools
Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op 22 "Nordic": 1. Andante solenne - Allegro con for 11:32 Tools
Song of Democracy for chorus & orchestra, Op 44 12:03 Tools
Hanson: Symphony No 1, 'Nordic 00:30 Tools
2. Andante con tenerezza 08:08 Tools
III. Adagio 04:57 Tools
Prelude 01:13 Tools
Enchantment 01:09 Tools
Hanson: Song of Democracy 12:03 Tools
Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitsky for orchestra, Op 44 12:47 Tools
Symphony No. 6: Adagio 04:59 Tools
Allegro con Brio 07:14 Tools
Andante con Tenerezza 03:05 Tools
Dies natalis I 12:42 Tools
The Winter's Passed (version for oboe and orchestra) 05:16 Tools
Act III Scene 2: Woe, woe! Lost sheep are we (Puritans, Bradford, Myles Brodrib) 01:46 Tools
Act II Scene 1: From forth the hill … I christen 'Merry Mount' - Maypole Dance (Lackland, Men and Women) 01:46 Tools
Act III Scene 2: No witch am I; But one that long ago was happy (Marigold) 01:46 Tools
Act I: Be as a lion, dread Jehovah… From plots of Hell and witcheries (Puritans, Bradford, Bridget, Plentiful, Myles Brodrib, Tewke, Desire) 01:46 Tools
Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.21 "Nordic": 3. Allegro con fuoco 04:50 Tools
Serenade for flute, harp, & strings, Op. 35 12:47 Tools
Scratch A Roundhead, Find A Rebel...Thrones Of The Earth Be Idle Things 03:05 Tools
Hale Her To The Village, A Prisoner... 04:57 Tools
No Witch Am I; But One That Long Ago Was Happy 04:57 Tools
Act II Scene 2: O pity me! Thou alone of women Canst heal this tortured heart (Bradford, Marigold, Lackland, Tewke, Puritans) 03:05 Tools
Act I: Right rev'rend priest, our holy joy … Respect the Sabbath day (Prence, Scrooby, Tewke, Bradford, Puritans, Cavaliers) 03:05 Tools
Nymphs and Satyr: III. Scherzo for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra 06:36 Tools
Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op 22 "Nordic": 3. Allegro con fuoco 09:24 Tools
Symphony No.1 in E minor, Op.21 "Nordic": 2. Andante teneramente, con semplicita 13:40 Tools
Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op 22 "Nordic": 2. Andante teneramente, con semplici 05:44 Tools
Piano Concerto in G Major, Op. 36: III. Andante molto espressione 01:46 Tools
Savannah River Holiday 08:43 Tools
Elegy, Op. 44 12:45 Tools
Lament for Beowulf for chorus & orchestra, Op. 25 03:05 Tools
Laude: Chorale, Variations And Metamorphoses: Chorale 04:27 Tools
Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"): 2nd Mvt. 05:44 Tools
IV. Lux aeterna: Largo pastorale 06:31 Tools
V. Adagio 05:25 Tools
Act I: Plentiful Tewke hath catched the preacher! (Love, Bradford, Peregrine Brodrib, Prence, Children) 04:47 Tools
The Willow Keep To Thatch Our Sleep 04:47 Tools
Never More Shall Prayer Ravish These Lips!... 04:47 Tools
Act II Scene 1: Methinks I see th'infernal rendezvous of Satan and his bond-slaves (Bradford, Men and Women, Morton, Tewke, Puritans) 06:36 Tools
O Pity Me! Thou Alone Of Women Canst Heal This Tortured Heart 06:36 Tools
Piano Concerto in G Major, Op. 36: IV. Allegro giocoso 06:36 Tools
The Lament for Beowulf, Op. 25 19:16 Tools
Merry Mount Suite, Op. 31 (arr. J. Boyd): III. Love Duet 13:40 Tools
Symphony No. 3: Andante tranquillo 08:50 Tools
Merry Mount Suite, Op. 31 (arr. J. Boyd): IV. Prelude to Act II and Maypole Dances 13:40 Tools
Symphony No. 6: Allegro assai 02:08 Tools
Symphony No. 6: Allegro scherzando 04:51 Tools
Symphony No. 6: Andante 03:40 Tools
Mexican Rhapsody 11:15 Tools
II. Andante teneramente, con semplicita 05:25 Tools
VI. Allegro 02:06 Tools
IV. Allegro assai 02:06 Tools
Bold Island Suite 05:25 Tools
Act I: Prelude 05:25 Tools
Act II Scene 2: Almighty Father, My King and my God (Bradford, Mystic Voices) 05:25 Tools
From Forth The Hill...I Christen 'Marry Mount' - Maypole Dance 05:25 Tools
Act I: My son, Thou'rt over-ripe for marriage! (Tewke, Bradford) 05:25 Tools
Almighty Father, My King And My God 05:25 Tools
Symphony No. 2 ('Romantic'), Op. 30: 2. Andante con tenerezza 06:36 Tools
II. Allegro scherzando 04:50 Tools
I. Adagio 04:50 Tools
Fanfare For The Signal Corps 01:09 Tools
Symphony No.2 'Romantic' - Allegro con brio 01:09 Tools
Gould: Spirituals - 1. Proclamation 01:09 Tools
Merry Mount Suite, Op. 31 (arr. J. Boyd): I. Overture 01:09 Tools
II. Andante tranquillo 13:40 Tools
Symphony No. 6: Allegro 02:05 Tools
Laude: Chorale, Variations and Metamorphoses: Variations 1-3 04:50 Tools
Merry Mount Suite, Op. 31 (arr. J. Boyd): II. Children's Dance 04:50 Tools
Symphony No. 3: Andante lamentando-agitato 10:39 Tools
Hanson: Merry Mount Suite: Overture 02:45 Tools
Enchantment: Enchanment 01:17 Tools
II. Allegro molto ritmico 12:42 Tools
Rhythmic Variations On 2 Ancient Hymns: Rhythmic Variations On Two Ancient Hymns 01:17 Tools
Long Live The Lady 02:06 Tools
Gi' You Good Night, Sir... 02:06 Tools
Act II Scene 1: Marigold! When the morning stars together sang (Lackland, Marigold, Men and Women) 04:23 Tools
Marigold! Lady!...Lets Us Be Lions Of Jehovah 04:23 Tools
Prelude - I Wind And I Wind, My True Love To Find 04:23 Tools
Sinfonía Nº 2 "The Romantic" (extracto) 02:48 Tools
Symphony No. 2 ('Romantic'), Op. 30: 1. Adagio; Allegro moderato 13:40 Tools
Piano Concerto in G Major, Op. 36: I. Lento molto e molto tranquillo - Allegro deciso 01:46 Tools
Nymphs and Satyr: I. Prelude - II. Fantasy for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra 01:46 Tools
Nymphs and Satyr: IV. Epilog 01:46 Tools
Merry Mount Suite: Overture 01:46 Tools
Symphony No.3: 2. Andante tranquillo 01:46 Tools
Merry Mount Suite: 2. Children's Dance 01:46 Tools
Merry Mount Suite: 1. Overture 01:46 Tools
Nymphs and Satyr - scherzo for orchestra 01:46 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic": I. Adagio; allegro moderato 13:40 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time: 12. Dreams 13:40 Tools
Symphony #1 in e: I. Andante solenne - Allegro con forza 13:40 Tools
Hanson: Merry Mount Suite: Love Duet 04:27 Tools
2. Requiescat (Largo) 05:42 Tools
Robert McBride - Mexican Rhapsody 13:40 Tools
Laude: Chorale, Variations and Metamorphoses: Variation 7 04:27 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time: 2. TAmara and Peter Bolshoi 13:40 Tools
Hanson: Merry Mount Suite: Children's Dance 04:27 Tools
Symphony No. 3: Tempo scherzando 05:37 Tools
Lyndol Mitchell - Kentucky Mountain Portraits - Cindy 11:00 Tools
Ron Nelson - Savannah River Holiday 11:00 Tools
Lyndol Mitchell - Kentucky Mountain Portraits - Ballad 11:00 Tools
Laude: Chorale, Variations and Metamorphoses: Variations 4-5 05:42 Tools
4. Lux aeterna (Largo pastorale) 07:44 Tools
Symphony no. 2 Op.30 (Romantic) 07:44 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time - 1. Bells 07:44 Tools
Act II Scene 2: Let them strike twice, And I will come to thee! (Marigold) 05:37 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time - 8. Serious Conversations 05:37 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic" 05:37 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time - 4. Eccentric Clock 03:34 Tools
I. Andante solenne - Allegro con forza 12:42 Tools
Be As A Lion, Dread Jehovah... From Plots Of Hell And Witcheries 12:42 Tools
III. Finale: Allegro con fuoco 12:42 Tools
Piston - The Incredible Flutist (Ballet Suite) - II. Entrance of the Vendors 12:42 Tools
Barber - Capricorn Concerto Op. 21 - I. Allegro ma non troppo 12:42 Tools
Act I: Marigold! Lady! … Let us be lions of Jehovah (Bradford, Marigold, Lackland, Myles Brodrib, Tewke, Puritans, Cavaliers) 12:42 Tools
Act II Scene 3: Now thou art mine (Lucifer, Monsters, Witches and Demons, Bradford) 01:46 Tools
Let Them Strike Twice, And I Will Come to Thee! 01:46 Tools
Symphony No. 2 ('Romantic'), Op. 30: 3. Allegro con brio 01:46 Tools
Hanson: Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 "Romantic": I. Adagio; allegro moderato 01:46 Tools
Merry Mount Suite: Children's Dance 01:46 Tools
Merry Mount Suite: 3. Love Duet 01:46 Tools
Symphony No. 2, Op. 20 13:40 Tools
For the First Time: 1. Bells 13:40 Tools
For the First Time: 4. Eccentric Clock 13:40 Tools
For the First Time: 7. Dance 13:40 Tools
Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op 22 'Nordic'': 1. Andante solenne; Allegro con forza 13:40 Tools
Symphony No. 2 'The Romantic' 3rd movement 13:40 Tools
For the First Time: 6. Clowns 13:40 Tools
For the First Time: 11. Fireworks 13:40 Tools
Pastorale for Oboe and Piano 13:40 Tools
Symphony No.3: 1. Andante lamentando 13:40 Tools
3. Dies irae (Presto) 13:40 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time: 5. Deep Forest 13:40 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time: 6. Clowns 13:40 Tools
Symphony No. 3: Largamente e pesante 11:00 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time: 4. Eccentric Clock 11:00 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time: 7. Dance 11:00 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time - 3. Deserted House 11:00 Tools
Suite from Merry Mount 05:42 Tools
Symphony #1 in e: II. Andante teneramente, con semplicita 05:42 Tools
Symphony No. 2 (Romantic) 07:44 Tools
III. Love Duet 07:44 Tools
IV. Prelude to Act II and Maypole Dances 07:44 Tools
Dies Natalis 07:44 Tools
Symphony #1 in e: III. Allegro con fuoco 07:44 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time - 3. Deserted House 07:44 Tools
Symphony #2: II. Andante con tenerezza 07:44 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time - 10. Mist 07:44 Tools
Joe Clark Steps Out 03:34 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time - 5. Deep Forest 03:34 Tools
Hanson: For the First Time - 11. Fireworks 03:34 Tools
Symphony No. 2 "Romantic", Op. 30: III. Allegro con brio 03:34 Tools
Music For Quiet Listening - Gymnopedie (4:12) 03:34 Tools
McCauley - Five Miniatures for Flute and Strings - III. Dextrous 08:16 Tools
Piston - The Incredible Flutist (Ballet Suite) - I. Introduction - Siesta in ... 08:16 Tools
Barber - Capricorn Concerto Op. 21 - III. Allegro con brio 08:16 Tools
Barber - Capricorn Concerto Op. 21 - II. Allegretto 08:16 Tools
Piston - The Incredible Flutist (Ballet Suite) - VI. Circus March 08:16 Tools
Piston - The Incredible Flutist (Ballet Suite) - IV. Tango of the Merchant's ... 08:16 Tools
Piston - The Incredible Flutist (Ballet Suite) - VIII. Minuet 08:16 Tools
Piston - The Incredible Flutist (Ballet Suite) - VII. The Flutist 08:16 Tools
Merry Mount Suite 08:16 Tools
Act III Scene 2: Gird you with Sackcloth (Tewke, Puritans) 02:56 Tools
Gird You With Sackcloth 02:56 Tools
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Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and ardent champion of American classical music. Hanson was born in Wahoo, Nebraska to Swedish parents, Hans and Hilma (Eckstrom) Hanson. In his infancy he studied music with his mother. Later, he studied at Luther College in Wahoo, receiving a diploma in 1911, then at the Institute of Musical Art in New York City, where he studied with the composer and music theorist Percy Goetschius in 1914. Afterwards he attended Northwestern University, where Hanson studied composition with church music expert Peter Lutkin and Arne Oldberg in Chicago. Throughout his education, Hanson studied piano, cello and trombone. Hanson received his BA degree in music from Northwestern University in 1916, where he began his teaching career as a teacher's assistant. That same year, Hanson got his first full-time position as a music theory and composition teacher at the College of the Pacific in California, and only three years later, the college appointed him Dean of the Conservatory of Fine Arts in 1919. In 1920 Hanson composed The California Forest Play, his earliest work to receive national attention. Hanson also wrote a number of orchestral and chamber works during his years in California, including Concerto da Camera, Symphonic Legend, Symphonic Rhapsody, various solo piano works, such as Two Yuletide Pieces, and the Scandinavian Suite, which celebrated his Lutheran and Scandinavian heritage. Hanson was the first recipient of the American Academy's Prix de Rome, awarded by the American Academy in Rome, in 1921, for both The California Forest Play and his symphonic poem Before the Dawn. Thanks to the award, Hanson lived in Italy for three years. During his time in Italy, Hanson wrote a Quartet in One Movement, Lux aeterna, The Lament for Beowulf (orchestration Bernhard Kaun), and his Symphony No. 1, "Nordic", the premiere of which he conducted with the Augusteo Orchestra on May 30, 1923. It has been incorrectly stated that Hanson studied composition and/or orchestration with Ottorino Respighi, who studied orchestration with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Hanson's unpublished autobiography refutes the statement, attributed to Ruth Watanabe, that he had studied with Respighi. Upon returning from Rome, Hanson's conducting career took off, making his premiere conducting the New York Symphony Orchestra in his tone poem North and West. In Rochester, New York in 1924, he conducted his Symphony No. 1, and this brought him to the attention of George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera and roll film, who chose Hanson to be director of the Eastman School of Music. Hanson held that position for forty years, turning the institution into one of the most prestigious music schools in America. He accomplished this by improving the curriculum, bringing in better teachers and refining the school's orchestras. Also, he balanced the school's faculty between American and European teachers, even when this meant passing up Béla Bartók. Hanson offered a position to Bartok teaching composition at Eastman, a position that Bartok declined as Bartok did not believe that one could teach composition. Bartok placed Hanson in a difficult position as he wished to teach piano at Eastman - Eastman had a full staff of piano instuctors at the time. In 1925, Hanson established the American Composers Orchestral Concerts. Later, he founded the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, which consisted of first chair players from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and selected students from the Eastman School, and then The Festivals of American Music followed. Hanson made many recordings with the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, not only his own works, but also those of other American composers such as John Alden Carpenter, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, John Knowles Paine, Walter Piston, William Grant Still, and other, lesser known, composers. Hanson estimated that over 2000 works by over 500 American composers were premiered during his tenure at Eastman. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky commissioned Hanson's Symphony No. 2, the "Romantic", and premiered it on November 28, 1930. This work was to become Hanson's best known. It accompanied several exterior sequences and the end credits in the original release of the famous sci-fi movie Alien. Its primary melody is performed at the conclusion of all concerts at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Known as the "Interlochen Theme," it is conducted by a student concertmaster after the conductor has left the stage. There is to be no applause after its performance. Hanson's opera Merry Mount is credited as the first American opera, since it was written by an American composer and an American librettist on an American story, and it was premiered with a mostly American cast at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, in 1934. The Opera received fifty curtain calls at its Met premiere, a record that still stands. The opening theme of his Third Symphony's second movement is one of the most haunting and memorable passages in American music. The Third was written 1936-38 and first played by the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Hanson was elected as a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1935, President of the Music Teachers' National Association from 1929 to 1930, and President of the National Association of Schools of Music from 1935 to 1939. Hanson and Walter Piston were part of the committee that awarded the 1941 Prix de Rome to Harold Shapero. After he composed the Hymn of the Pioneers to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first Swedish settlement in Delaware, Hanson was selected as a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy in 1938. In 1944 Hanson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Symphony No. 4, subtitled Requiem. In 1945 he became the first recipient of the Ditson Conductor's Award for commitment to American music. Hanson met Margaret Elizabeth Nelson at her parents' summer home on Lake Chautauqua in the Chautauqua Institution in New York. Hanson dedicated the Serenade for Flute, Harp, and Strings, to her; the piece was his musical request to marry her as he could not find the spoken words to ask her to marry him. They married on July 24, 1946 at her parents' summer home in Chautauqua Institution. In 1946, Hanson was awarded the George Foster Peabody Award "for outstanding entertainment programming" for a series he presented on the Rochester, New York radio station WHAM in 1945. From 1946 to 1962 Hanson was active in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) . UNESCO commissioned Hanson's Pastorale for Oboe and Piano, and Pastorale for Oboe, Strings, and Harp, for the 1949 Paris conference of the world body. In 1953 Hanson helped to establish the Edward B. Benjamin Prize "for calming and uplifting music" written by Eastman students. Each submitted score was read by Hanson and the Eastman Orchestra. Winners of the Benjamin Prize appeared on Hanson's recording Music for Quiet Listening. Frederick Fennell, conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, described Hanson's first band composition, the 1954 Chorale and Alleluia as "the most awaited piece of music to be written for the wind band in my twenty years as a conductor in this field". Chorale and Alleluia is still a required competition piece for high school bands in the New York State School Music Association's repertoire list and is one of Hanson's most frequently recorded works. In 1960 Hanson published Harmonic Materials of Modern Music: Resources of the Tempered Scale, a book that would lay the foundation for musical set theory. Among the many notions considered was what Hanson called the isomeric relationship, now usually termed Z-relationship. Hanson took the Eastman Philharmonia, a student ensemble, on a European tour from 1961 to 1962, which passed through Paris, Cairo, Moscow, and Vienna, among other cities. The Tour showcased the growth of serious American music in Europe and the Middle East. Hanson was on the Board of Directors of the Music Educators National Conference from 1960 to 1964. Even after his retirement from Eastman in 1964, Hanson continued his association with the School. Hanson's Song of Democracy, on a Walt Whitman text, was also performed at the inaugural concert for incoming U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1969, an event Hanson proudly described as the first inaugural concert featuring only American music. The Eastman Kodak company, in recognition of Hanson's achievements, donated $100,000 worth of stock to the school in 1976. Hanson stipulated that the gift be used to fund the Institute of American Music at Eastman. Hanson continued conducting, composing and writing in his eighties, up to his death in Rochester, New York. Hanson was cremated and his ashes were scattered on Bold Island; his island that lies off the coast of Stonington, Maine. It was on this Island that Hanson composed the Bold Island Suite and many of his other compositions. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.