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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
ACO kicks-off its second season “underground” with provocative music that explores the relationship between music and the visual arts.
Steven Sloane, conductor
Ida Kavafian, violin
Alice Ripley, soprano
Matt Bogart, tenor
STEPHEN SONDHEIM: Sunday in the Park with George (selections)
MORTON FELDMAN: De Kooning
RANDALL WOOLF: Women at an Exhibition for chamber orchestra, electronics, and video (by Mary Harron and John C. Walsh)
(World Premiere)
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY: Fire and Blood
(New York Premiere)
Orchestra Underground is presented with the generous support of The Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.
Recommended Reading:
Sondheim in Two Contexts
by Gerald Moshell
Looking at Women
by Mic Holwin
Music & Art Beneath the Surface
by Frank J. Oteri
Friday, January 21, 2005. 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
ACO’s groundbreaking series continues with a high-tech, high-energy program of all world premieres with percussive, improvisational & spatial explorations.
Steven Sloane, conductor
So Percussion
Dan Trueman, violin & electronics
CARLOS CARRILLO:Algunas metáforas que aluden al tormento, a la angustia y a la guerra
(World Premiere, BMI/Carlos Surinach Fund Commission)
DAN TRUEMAN: Traps Relaxed
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
JASON FREEMAN: Glimmer
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
EVE BEGLARIAN: Flaming0
(World Premiere, revised version)
Orchestra Underground is presented with the generous support of The Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.Also funded in part through Meet the Composer’s Creative Connections Program with the support of ASCAP Foundation, Copland Fund, Ford Foundation, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Jerome Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Virgil Thomson Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Recommended Reading:
Discovering an Electric Violin
by Dan Trueman
Swooping the Orchestra with “Glimmer”
by Jason Freeman
Wednesday, February 23, 2005. 8:00 pm
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium
An all premiere program featuring a major new work by Hollywood outsider composer Danny Elfman, and new music for Andy Summers, the lead guitarist of the legendary band the Police.
Steven Sloane, conductor
Andy Summers, electric guitar
Benjamin Verdery, classical guitar
ACO Singers, Judith Clurman, director
MANLY ROMERO: Blanco, Azul, Rojo
(World Premiere, Commissioned by The Helen F. Whitaker Fund)
INGRAM MARSHALL: Dark Florescence – Variations for Two Guitars and Orchestra
(World Premiere)
DANNY ELFMAN: Serenada Schizophrana
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
Recommended Reading:
Two Different Guitarists, One Composer
by Mic Holwin
Danny Elfman Walks into Carnegie Hall…
by Jessica Lustig
Thursday, May 5, 2005 9:30 am – 1:00 pm
Friday May 6, 2005 9:30 am – 1:00 pm
Alfred Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge Auditorium
Columbia University
14th Annual New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Steven Sloane, music director
Paul Lustig Dunkel, conductor
James Lowe, conductor
Steven Mackey and Melinda Wagner, mentor composers
Thursday, May 5
ZHOU TIAN: The Palace of Nine Perfections
SPENCER LAMBRIGHT: Lyhennys
JOSEPH SHEEHAN: Sail Away to Soft, Sweet Bells
MICHAEL GATONSKA: An Expedition Aboard the Third Mind
JENNIFER FITZGERALD: Having Once Been, Mvt. I
Friday, May 6
KENNETH FROELICH: Pulse Mutations
STEFAN WEISMAN: The Bird Happened
GREGG WRAMAGE: Remember Death (The Hemingway Summer)
DANIEL VISCONTI: Graffiti
CARLOS RIVERA: Popol-Vuh, Four Mayan Dances for Orchestra
Lead support for the Underwood New Music Readings comes from Mr. Paul Underwood, The Fromm Music Foundation and The Helen F. Whitaker Fund. ACO’s emerging composers programs are made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and with the support of Jerome Foundation and the Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust.