 Samuel Jones's compositions include an oratorio and three symphonies as well as shorter orchestral works, works for chorus and orchestra, opera, chamber music and works for children.One of his proudest achievements, which he mentioned to a Huffington Post reporter in 2015, was the unlikely feat of persuading author Truman Capote to allow him to set Capote's iconic story, "A Christmas Memory," as an opera, which debuted in Dallas in 1992 and for which he wrote the libretto.His music has been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Louisville Orchestra, the New Orleans Philharmonic, the Beaverton Symphony Orchestra and many others.