Joan Tower

About the artist

Joan Tower (born September 6, 1938 in New Rochelle, New York) is a contemporary American composer who spent much of her early life in South America. She became known for her first orchestral composition, Sequoia, a tone poem which structurally depicts a giant redwood from trunk to needles. Among her other prominent pieces are the Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, which is something of a response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, her two string quartets, and an assortment of other tone poems.

Top songs

1. Violin Concerto
2. Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, no. 1
3. Made in America
4. Wild Purple
5. Petroushskates
6. Tambor
7. DNA
8. No Longer Very Clear: I. Holding a Daisy
9. Island Prelude
10. Big Sky

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