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Friday, Oct. 10, 2008 at 9pm
BAMcafe, Brooklyn
Free admission!
Composers OutFront!
Fred Ho & The Afro Asian Music Ensemble
Bobby Zankel, alto sax
Salim Washington, tenor sax
Art Hirahara, piano
Wes Brown, bass
Royal Hartigan, drums.
Baritone saxophone provocateur & composer Fred Ho performs with his signature ensemble, previewing the premiere of his When the Real Dragons Fly!, premiering in November 2008 at Zankel Hall.
Friday, November 14, 2008 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC
Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008 at 7:30pm
International House at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia [pre-concert talk at 7pm]
Orchestra Underground: Season Opener
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Fred Ho, baritone saxophone
Seth Josel, electric guitar
CLINT NEEDHAM: Chamber Symphony
(World Premiere, ACO/Underwood/Jerome Commission)
KEERIL MAKAN: Dream Lightly for Electric Guitar & Orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO Commission)
GREGORY SPEARS: Finishing
(New York Premiere)
KAMRAN INCE: Domes
(New York & Philadelphia Premieres)
FRED HO: When the Real Dragons Fly! for saxophone & orchestra (World Premiere, ACO/Goelet Commission)
Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC
Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009 at 7:30pm
Penn Presents,The Ibrahim Theater at the International House, Philadelphia [pre-concert talk at 7pm]
Orchestra Underground: Collaborations, New & Green
George Manahan, Conductor
Derek Bermel, clarinet
Kasumi, video/sound-art
Alexis Baskind, Miller Puckette
& Rand Steiger, electronics
DAVID SCHIFF: Stomp
FANG MAN: Resurrection
(World Premiere, ACO/Underwood/Jerome Commission)
MARGARET BROUWER & KASUMI: BREAKDOWN: A sample-based hybrid opera in one act
(World Premiere, ACO/Goelet Commission)
KATI AGÓCS: Pearls
(World Premiere, ACO/Goelet Commission)
RAND STEIGER: Cryosphere
for Live Electronics & Orchestra (World
Premiere, ACO/Fromm/Goelet Commission)
Thursday, Apr. 16, 2009 at 1:30pm
Friday, Apr. 17, 2009 at 7:30pm
Annenberg Center for the Arts, Philadelphia
ACO/Penn Presents New Music Readings & Lab
A glimpse at new collaborations and new music selected from the Pennsylvania region’s most promising young composers.
Guidelines and submission info…
Friday, May 1, 2009 at 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, NYC
Orchestra Underground: Davies Returns
Dennis Russell Davies, Conductor
Eliot Fisk, guitar
Thomas Larcher, piano
Lukas Ligeti, Marimba Lumina
ROBERT BEASER: Guitar Concerto
(NYC Premiere, ACO/Goelet/Bruckner Orchester Linz/Albany Symphony Orchestra Commission)
LUKAS LIGETI: Labyrinth of Clouds for Electronic Mallet & Orchestra
(World Premiere, ACO/Goelet/Greenwall Commission)
DEREK BERMEL: A Shout, A Whisper, A Trace
(World Premiere, ACO/ProMusica Chamber Orchestra/Koussevitsky
Foundation Commission)
THOMAS LARCHER: Böse
Zellen (Malignant Cells) for piano & orchestra
(U.S. Premiere)
Thursday, May 7 & Friday, May 8, 2009.
Miller Theater at Columbia Univ.
Underwood New Music Readings
ACO’s annual roundup of the country’s brightest young and emerging composers.