Orchestra Underground: 21st Firsts

Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA
GEORGE MANAHAN, Music Director & Conductor
HANNAH LASH, harp
CAROLINE SHAW, vocals
PAUL LIEBER, projections

All World Premieres
MICHAEL-THOMAS FOUMAI: The Spider Thread
JUDAH ADASHI: Sestina
MELODY EÖTVÖS: Red Dirt | Silver Rain
HANNAH LASH: Concerto for Harp and Chamber Orchestra
CONRAD WINSLOW: Joint Account

ACO brings SONiC to a rousing grand finale with an ALL-WORLD-PREMIERE concert at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, with diverse composer-alumni from ACO’s national new music readings programs. Conrad Winslow creates a multimedia essay built on Baroque techniques described by 18th-century theorist Johann Mattheson. Melody Eötvös relives her Australian childhood, recreating the earth and sky in music. Hannah Lash, as both composer and soloist, devises music in which the harp takes over an entire orchestra. Inspired by a Japanese tale of morality, Michael-Thomas Foumai recounts a rapturous and frantic dash for spiritual salvation—an orchestral high-wire climb, before the thread snaps.