Concerto For Orchestra No. 2 (Stucky)
The Second Concerto for Orchestra is a concerto for orchestra by the American composer Steven Stucky. The work was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic while Stucky was their composer-in-residence for the inaugural season of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. It was completed in 2003 and was first performed on March 12, 2004, with the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The piece was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Composition Background Stucky conceived the piece as a celebration of his musical influences. Thus, the work freely references passages from many previous classical works. Stucky, Steven (October 2003)Coming Home: On Writing a Second Concerto for Orchestra Retrieved April 4, 2015. In 2003, Stucky elaborated: Stucky also assigned letters of the alphabet to pitches in order to form a musical code in the first movement. He wrote that the first movement "enshrines essential personal loyalties, using musical code to refer ...
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