“I’m like, ‘Oh, wow. So this music was played’,” Gomez recalled. “And then I started to do even more research and see what are those pieces that were never recorded or were never played.”
Gomez and the TSO launched the Muczynski recording project with “Dovetail” Overture in the 2021-22 season, then opened the TSO’s 2022-23 season with “Charade.” He added “Galena: A Town” (Suite for Orchestra) in 2023 and last spring led the orchestra in “Symphonic Memoir,” which Muczynski had composed for the orchestra and premiered in 1979.
Finishing with Muczynski’s Symphony “is very special,” Gomez said.
TSO Music Director José Luis Gomez will close out his years-long exploration of Robert Muczynski’s music with a world premiere this weekend.
“The quality of the music is wonderful,” he said of the composer, who died in Tucson in 2010 at the age of 81. “He is a respected composer, and he lived here in Tucson. So this orchestra, which played many of his works, needs to pay tribute to him.”
Gomez bookended this weekend’s “Copland’s Fanfare for America” concert with Joan Tower’s “Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman” and Copland’s Symphony No. 3, whose final movement includes the main theme of his “Fanfare for the Common Man.”
The symphony will perform the concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 10, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 12, at Linda Ronstadt Music hall, 260 S. Church Ave. Tickets are $16.90-$109.30 through tucsonsymphony.org.
Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at [email protected]. On Bluesky @Starburch
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