Lee Actor's Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, 1st movement.
First Prize Winner of the 2007 International Horn Society Composition Contest.
Performed by Patrick Hughes, solo horn, and the St. Olaf Orchestra, conducted by Steven Amundson.
Recorded May 23, 2009.
Lee Actor, Silicon Valley's accidental composer - SiliconValley.com: " . . . "It's hard," says Actor, whose new piano concerto debuts this weekend on the Peninsula. "It's hard work. It's harder than writing software." Actor, 60, knows, because he spent 20 years writing code for video games -- he even co-founded a San Jose spinoff of Universal Studios to develop some of those games -- before returning a decade ago to his youthful passion, music. Since about age 50, he has composed steadily, building a body of 20 major works: overtures, symphonies, concertos. More than 50 orchestras have performed them, including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Colorado Symphony, two respected ensembles. Far-flung bands know about Actor because an expanding network of soloists and conductors enjoy and talk about his work -- and send commissions his way. . . ."
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