JON MAGNUSSEN Music for Limón Dances TROY1021 - $16.99 need help? Two lovely ballet scores from the distinguished American composer, Jon Magnussen The music on this disc came to be out of a unique collaboration between three artists spanning three generations: José Limon, Jon Magnussen and Carla Maxwell, the artistic director for the Limón Dance Company. After Limón’s death, the ballet Winged was revived. There was a need for a new score and Magnussen was chosen from a pool of graduate students at Juilliard to write the music. Because that collaboration proved so successful, Carla Maxwell asked Magnussen to write a new score for Psalm when she revived the dance. CONTENTS: Jon Magnussen, composer The Winged Members of the Juilliard Orchestra, David Briskin, conductor Jon Magnussen, composer Psalm Westminster Kantorei, Sumner Thompson, baritone, Institute Festival Orchestra, Mark Laycock conductor REVIEW: "Jon Magnussen writes attractive, well-made music. ...there is much to enjoy here, as a result of Magnussen's vigorous imagination and jazzy sense of rhythm." (Fanfare)