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Ensemble Performances
For ANY AGE students WITH or WITHOUT musical experience
Members of American Composers Orchestra, as well as guest artists and ensembles perform concerts featuring music by contemporary American composers in assembly-style, interactive performance settings. Performances can stand alone, or serve as an adjunct or supplement to ACO workshops or related classroom work.
Emphasis is placed on educating students about basic musical concepts and sources, and about creative choices made by, and conceptual methods employed by the composers and
performers. Works selected for performance often illustrate broader aspects of American culture.
The Music Factory programs of ACO are designed to promote student achievement, inspire creativity and develop baseline transferable skills through close engagement with some of the worlds finest composers and musicians.
Taking unique advantage of one of the city’s most underutilized resources – New York is home to more accomplished composers than any other place in the world – ACO Music Factory programs are hands-on minds-on, performance based activities aimed at students from the 4th-12th grades and are appropriate for in-school or after-school settings.
All provide high-impact learning opportunities for music students of any level, and many are appropriate for schools and students without musical experience. For most ACO Music Factory programs the length and number of artist visits is adaptable to the needs of the school, from a single event to a full semester or year.
For 35 years the ACO has been the only orchestra in the world dedicated to the creation, performance, preservation and promotion of music by American composers. Since it’s founding the orchestra has commissioned and premiered more new works by American composers than any other orchestra. ACO serves as an incubator of ideas, research and talent, as a catalyst for growth and change among orchestras, and as an advocate for American composers and their music.