American Composers Orchestra
“always fascinating ... frequently exhilarating”
—Newsday
American Composers Orchestra Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
Amir ElSaffar, Santur
Jeremy Flower, Laptop
Ned McGowan, Contrabass Flute
Joshue Ott, superDraw
Princeton Laptop Orchestra
Karim Sulayman, Tenor
Dan Trueman, Hardanger Fiddle
Sarah Wolfson, Soprano
What happens when today’s most innovative musical thinkers pour their creative energies into no-holds-barred experiments designed to stretch the limits of what’s possible with an orchestra? The results of this nationwide search are brought together in an “on-the-edge” display of uncharted musical territory.
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CHARLES MASON
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Additions
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JONATHAN DAWE
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Ouverture and Ballet Music from Armide
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ANNA CLYNE
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TENDER HOOKS
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PETER S. HELLER
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Fanfare for Mary
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DAN TRUEMAN
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Silicon/Carbon: an anti-Concerto Grosso
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NED MCGOWAN
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Bantammer Swing
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 Select from a video below:Preview of Playing it UNsafe featuring interviews with some of the composers featured on this concert. Dan Trueman—composer, fiddler, and co-founder of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk)—talks about the genesis of his work, Silicon/Carbon: an anti-Concerto Grosso. Composer Jonathan Dawe talks about the American hip-hop rhythm, the strains of Iraqi folk melody, and the theories of fractal geometry that appear in his Overture and Ballet Music from Armide. |