Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 3pm
Carnegie Hall
A Program of Psalms
Steven Sloane, conductor
New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, artistic director
Judith Bettina, soprano
Amy Burton, soprano
Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano
Richard Clement, tenor
John Hancock, baritoneDAVID LANG: how to pray
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
CHARLES IVES: Psalm 100
MILTON BABBITT: From the Psalter
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JON MAGNUSSEN: Psalm (excerpts)
(New York Premiere)
CHARLES IVES: The Sixty-Seventh Psalm
SHULAMIT RAN: Supplications (for Chorus and Orchestra)
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JOHN HARBISON: Four Psalms (New York Premiere)
Friday, February 21, 2003 at 7pm
Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater
Randall Woolf: Turn Me Away
twisted tutu
(Eve Beglarian-vocals, keyboards & Kathleen Supové keyboards)
…missing…
Margaret Kampmeier-piano,
John Ferrari-vibes, marimba
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
The Sirius Quartet: Meg Okura-violin, Rachel Golub-violin, Ron Lawrence-viola, David Eggar-cello
The debut of Soup, a new group comprised of gospel/jazz/soul singer/composer Tyrone Henderson, co-composer Randall Woolf on keyboard, Nabaté Isles on trumpet, and guitarist Ann Klein.
Sunday, March 2, 2003 at 3pm
Carnegie Hall
Zappa and the Emerging American Composer
Steven Sloane, conductor
David Moss, Omar Ebrahim, vocalists
DAN COLEMAN: L’alma respira
(World premiere. Commissioned by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund)
HSUEH-YUNG SHEN: Autumn Fall
(World premiere. Commissioned by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund)
BRIAN ROBISON: In Search of the Miraculous
(World premiere. Commissioned by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund)
FRANK ZAPPA arr. Ali N. Askin:
The Adventures of Greggery Peccary
G-Spot Tornado
The Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat (a.k.a. Dog/Meat)
(NY Premiere)
Peaches en Regalia
(U.S. Premiere)
Sunday, April 6, 2003 at 3pm
Carnegie Hall
Antony and Cleopatra
Steven Sloane, conductor
New York Concert Singers, Judith Clurman, music director
Carol Vaness, Cleopatra
Louis Otey, Antony
Neil Rosenshein, Caesar
Arthur Woodley, Enobarbus
With:
Elizabeth Batton; Matthew Burns; Peter Couchman; Jonathan Goodman; Andrew Martens; Richard Lippold; Douglas Purcell; Mark Rehnstrom; Margaret Thompson; James Archie Worley
SAMUEL BARBER: Antony and Cleopatra (concert performance)
Monday, April 7, 2003
Steven Sloane, conductor
Jeffrey Milarsky & Scott Yoo, guest conductors
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Chen Yi, Joseph Schwantner, Steven Stucky, composer-mentors
ACO’s annual round-up of the best and brightest works by emerging American composers.