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On program 12, eleven faculty members of the University’s Eastman School of Music join Dr. Howard Hanson to demonstrate the “Colors in Music.” Dr. Hanson points out why he and other composers use the particular tone colors of instruments and groups of instruments to achieve desired musical effects. Concentrating on the winds and the brass section of the orchestra, Dr. Hanson shows why he, as well as Debussy, Wagner, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rimski-Korsakov, Stravinsky and Dukas, have used particular colors in the orchestra in expressing their musical ideas. All of the instrumentalists are first chair men in Rochester Philharmonic and the Eastman Symphony Orchestras, and each is given an opportunity to not only display his own virtuosity, but also the total and color limits of his instrument.
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