1998-99 Season | American Composers Orchestra

Saturday, May 15 1999 at 2pm
New York Historical Society

Walt Whitman & Music: A Performance/Discussion

ACO closes the season with a weekend exploring the great American poet’s influence on American music. Saturday, a recital-discussion at The New-York Historical Society with music by Weill, Bernstein, Rorem and more, plus discussion with noted Whitman scholars David S. Reynolds and Jack Sullivan. related
articles:

Whitman’s Musical Legacy by Jack Sullivan
I hear American Singing: Whitman and the
music of his time by David S. Reynolds.

Sunday, May 16, 1999 at 3pm
Carnegie Hall

Walt Whitman

Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Emily Golden, Milagro Vargas, mezzo-sopranos
Andre Solomon-Glover, baritone
Judith Clurman Chorale, Judith Clurman, music director

WILLIAM BOLCOM: A Whitman Triptych
(NY Premiere)
PAUL HINDEMITH: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

A pre-concert discussion-recital takes place on the Carnegie Hall stage at 1:45 and is free to ticket-holders. The pre-concert activities juxtapose settings by Kurt Weill and Larry Alan Smith of
Whitman’s “Come Up from the Fields Father,” which is also one of the three Whitman poems set by William Bolcom in his Whitman Triptych. Mr. Bolcom will participate, as will Jack Sullivan, author of a new book, New World Symphonies.

See essays on Whitman and Music by noted scholars David S. Reynolds and Jack Sullivan.

MARCH 2 – 14, 1999

A week of premieres from Cuba.

Chamber music, orchestral music, folkloric and popular elements come together in ACO’s annual festival of Latin American music, featuring the largest delegation of Cuban and Cuban-born composers ever assemble in the U.S. In addition to concerts there are symposia, workshops and master classes.

Vedado, la Habana. Photo by Hazel Hankin Photo by Hazel Hankin.