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Orchestra Underground: Playing it UNsafe
Lab Workshops
Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 at 2 pm
Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 at 2pm
JCC, 334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th St., NYC
Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011 at 2pm
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 2pm
Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 2pm
Aaron Davis Hall, Theater B
ACO’s next musical laboratory. Composers pursuing no-holds-barred explorations that challenge their creative capacities and
stretch the limits of what is possible with an orchestra. This open rehearsal offers the second in a series of glimpses of the works-in-progress. Music by Henry Threadgill, Sean Friar, Joan La Barbara, David Heuser, and Laura Schwendinger. Admission is free with reservation.
Orchestra Underground: Playing it UNsafe
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Fri., March 4, 2011 at 7:30pm
George Manahan, Music Director & Conductor
Joan La Barbara, voice
Line C3 Percussion
Sean Friar: Clunker Concerto
(World Premiere)
Joan La Barbara: In solitude this fear is lived
(World Premiere)
Laura Schwendinger:Shadings
(World Premiere)
Henry Threadgill: No Gates, No White Trenches, Butterfly Effect
(World Premiere)
Playing It UNsafe is the first and only professional research and development lab to support the creation of cutting-edge new American orchestral music through no-holds-barred experimentation, encouraging composers to do anything but “play it safe.”Selected from a national search for their willingness to experiment and stretch their own musical sensibilities, these composers test the limits of the orchestra. Playing It UNsafe grew out of ACO’s ongoing mission to commission and perform new music that expands the range of possibilities for – and challenges convention notions about – orchestral music.
The culminating performance of ACO’s season-long collaborative musical laboratory. Composers pursuing 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 and born from a unique incubation process of workshops, public readings, and collaborative feedback.