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Carnegie Hall Presents

American Composers Orchestra

Hear new music by composers from New York City and around the US performed by the intrepid American Composers Orchestra and its Music Director George Manahan. This no-holds-barred series explores contemporary composers that challenge their creative capacities and stretch the sonic limits of an orchestra.

Series Events

Friday, Oct 26, 2012 | 7:30 PM
American Composers Orchestra
Orchestra Underground: Dreams and Dances
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • American Composers Orchestra
    José Serebrier, Conductor
  • Sharon Bezaly, Flute

Program

  • JOSÉ SEREBRIER Flute Concerto with Tango (US Premiere)
  • NARONG PRANGCHAROEN The Migration of Lost Souls (World Premiere)
  • MILICA PARANOSIC New Work for Electronics, Projections, and Orchestra (World Premiere)
  • GABRIELA LENA FRANK Manchay Tiempo (NY Premiere)
  • IVES Symphony No.3, "The Camp Meeting"
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Conductor-composer José Serebrier leads this multicultural program of new music, starting with his own Flute Concerto with Tango and Israeli flutist Sharon Bezaly. Also on the program are works by Serbian composer and performance artist Milica Paranosic, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Thai composer Narong Prangcharoen, the 2011 winner of ACO’s Underwood Commission. Ives’s Symphony No. 3, “The Camp Meeting,” concludes the program with a nostalgic look at the 19th century.
Friday, Jan 18, 2013 | 7:30 PM
American Composers Orchestra
Orchestra Underground: Time Travels
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • American Composers Orchestra
    George Manahan, Music Director and Conductor
  • Kate Soper, Soprano
  • Jennifer Zetlan, Soprano

Program

  • FOSS Time Cycle: Four Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
  • KYLE BLAHA New Work (World Premiere)
  • New Work for Voice and Orchestra (World Premiere)
  • ZHOU LONG Bell Drum Tower (US Premiere)
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Lukas Foss’s Time Cycle, a landmark work of the 20th century, opens the program on ACO’s second concert this season, titled Time Travels. Also on the program are two exciting world premieres by New York–based composers Kyle Blaha and Kate Soper, and Bell Drum Tower by Zhou Long, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize.
Foss's Time Cycle: Four Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
Columbia Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Bernstein, Conductor | Lukas Foss, Piano | Adele Addison, Soprano
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Friday, Apr 5, 2013 | 7:30 PM
American Composers Orchestra
Colaboratory: Playing It Unsafe
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • American Composers Orchestra
    George Manahan, Music Director and Conductor

Program

Playing It Unsafe is ACO’s next musical laboratory. Composers pursue no-holds-barred explorations that challenge their creative capacities and stretch the limits of what is possible with an orchestra. New pieces, selected through a nationwide search, are born from a unique incubation process of workshops, public readings, and collaborative feedback.

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