Conrad Susa on "The Blue Hour"

Posted on May 31, 2009 | 0 comments
Filed under: Conrad Susa, Interview, Teachers, Video

I’m thrilled to have just stumbled across this picture montage and interview excerpt of my former S.F. Conservatory composition teacher Conrad Susa discussing his beautiful orchestral work The Blue Hour. It was prepared by music journalist and long-time Conservatory faculty member Scott Foglesong for this article about a concert of music by Conrad and...

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Chanelling Howard Hanson?

Posted on Dec 7, 2006 | 1 comment
Filed under: Conrad Susa, Howard Hanson, Misterium Tremendum, Other People\'s Music, Past Work, Sibelius (composer), Teachers

Among several CDs I picked up on a recent Amoeba Records binge, I think I’ve stumbled across a musical ancestor. This 1989 Seattle Symphony recording of Howard Hanson‘s Symphonies 1 and 2 was sitting there staring at me from the clearance bin, so I idlely grabbed it, thinking ‘what the heck’. Having never paid any attention to Hanson...

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