Summer Banner; London Symphony Orchestra; Timothy Jones, horn; JoAnn Falletta, conductor

Discover The Wild (for Orchestra); London Symphony Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor

American Symphonic School. The United States Coast Guard Band in concert; Jeffrey Renshaw, conductor. Copyright © by Piedmont Music Company. Administered by Edward B. Marks Music Company. Used by permission.

From the Field to the Sky (Brass and Percussion); U.S. Coast Guard Band; Jeffrey Renshaw, conductor

String Quartet No. 5 "American" (4th mvmt.); Delray String Quartet

American Symphonic School. The United States Coast Guard Band in performance; Greg Case, soloist; Jeffrey Renshaw, conductor. Copyright © by Piedmont Music Company. Administered by Edward B. Marks Music Company. Used by permission.

Rush (Sax. Concerto, 2nd mvmt.); U.S.C.G. Band; Greg Case, soloist; Jeffrey Renshaw, conductor

String Quartet No. 4  (in one mvmt.); American String Quartet

Kenneth Fuchs’s fifth Naxos recording with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta won the 2018 GRAMMY® Award in the category Best Classical Compendium. One of America’s leading composers, he deepens his bond with conductor JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra with this superb recording of vocal music featuring baritone Roderick Williams. The new works include Falling Man, a dramatic scena based on the powerful post-9/11 novel by Don DeLillo; Movie House, a cycle featuring settings of seven poems by John Updike; and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, four settings from William Blake’s iconic two-part illustrated collection of poems. Fuchs’s music continues to find its visual counterpart in the work of Abstract Expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose art adorns the cover of this disc.

American Symphonic School. Copyright © 2014 Naxos Digital Services Ltd. Copyright © by Piedmont Music Company. Administered by Edward B. Marks Music Company. Used by permission.

Falling Man (for Baritone Voice and Orchestra, text by Don DeLillo, adapted by J. D. McClatchy)

2018 GRAMMY® Award, Best Classical Compendium. Kenneth Fuchs, one of America’s leading composers, celebrates his unique fifteen-year recording history with conductor JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra with this stunning release of concerti for alto saxophone, electric guitar, and piano, and an orchestral song cycle for countertenor on poems of Judith G. Wolf. Fuchs’s music continues to find its striking visual counterpart in the work of American Abstract Expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose art has adorned the covers of all his LSO discs for Naxos.

American Symphonic School. Copyright © 2018 Naxos Digital Services Ltd. Copyright © by Piedmont Music Company. Administered by Edward B. Marks Music Company. Used by permission.

Rush (Concerto for Alto Saxophone); Timothy McAllister, soloist

Kenneth Fuchs’s fifth Naxos recording with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta won the 2018 GRAMMY® Award in the category Best Classical Compendium. One of America’s leading composers, reveals the breadth of his achievement. Atlantic Riband evokes the struggle and ultimate victory of ocean-crossing immigrants to America in an orchestral showpiece of power and splendor. American Rhapsody is a lyrical romance for violin and orchestra, and Divinum Mysterium a single-movement viola concerto rich in expressive tapestry. Concerto Grosso shows Fuchs's sheer energy, and Discover the Wild in an orchestral overture of lyricism and color. Fuchs’s music continues to find its visual counterpart in the work of Abstract Expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose art adorns the cover of this disc.

American Symphonic School. Copyright © 2013 Naxos Digital Services Ltd. Copyright © by Piedmont Music Company. Administered by Edward B. Marks Music Company. Used by permission.

Atlantic Riband, American Rhapsody, etc (NAXOS 8-559723, 2012)

Atlantic Riband (for Orchestra); London Symphony Orchestra; JoAnn Falletta, conductor

Kenneth Fuchs discusses his fifth Naxos recording with London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by JoAnn Falletta, which won the 2018 GRAMMY® Award in the category Best Classical Compendium; Living American; SiriusXM Satellite Radio (Kenneth Fuchs, curator; David Srebnik, host), August 21, 2018.

SiriusXM: Living American2

Living American; SiriusXM Satellite Radio, August 21, 2018

Kenneth Fuchs’s fifth Naxos recording with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta won the 2018 GRAMMY® Award in the category Best Classical Compendium. He has composed music for orchestra, band, voice, chorus, and various chamber ensembles. With Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, Fuchs created three chamber musicals, The Great Nebula in Orion, A Betrothal, and Brontosaurus, which Circle Repertory Company originally presented in New York City. Fuchs’s operatic monodrama Falling Man (text by Don DeLillo, adapted by J. D. McClatchy) was presented at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of 9/11. His music has achieved significant global recognition through performances, media exposure, and digital streaming and downloading throughout North and South America, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Australia.

The London Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of JoAnn Falletta, has recorded five albums of Fuchs’s music for Naxos American Classics, which have earned four GRAMMY® Award nominations.

Kenneth Fuchs serves as Professor of Composition at the University of Connecticut. He received his bachelor of music degree in composition from the University of Miami (cum laude) and his master of music and doctor of musical arts degrees in composition from The Juilliard School. Fuchs’s composition teachers include Milton Babbitt, David Del Tredici, David Diamond, Vincent Persichetti, and Alfred Reed. His music is published by the Hal Leonard Corporation, Edward B. Marks Music Company, Theodore Presser Company, and Yelton Rhodes Music, and it has been recorded by Albany, Cala, and Naxos Records.

Kenneth Fuchs

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