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2007-2008 Season Upcoming Events   Wednesday & Thursday, April 23 & 24, 2008 Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU Friday, April 25, 2008 at 7:30 pm. Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 7:30 pm. Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia Orchestra Underground: Playing It UNsafe What happens when today's most innovative musical thinkers pour their creative energies into no-holds-barred experiments designed to stretch the limits of what's possible with an orchestra? The results of this nationwide search are brought together in an "on-the-edge" display of uncharted musical territory. Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor Jeremy Flower, laptop Ned McGowan, contrabass flute Joshue Ott, superDraw Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) ANNA CLYNE: TENDER HOOKS a multimedia concerto for theremin, laptop & orchestra JONATHAN DAWE: Overture & Ballet Music from Armide fractal geometry & hip-hop meet in postwar Iraq CHARLES MASON: Additions time and place redefined in music for "porous" architecture NED McGOWAN: Bantammer Swing sonic extremes for amplified contrabass flute & orchestra DAN TRUEMAN: Silicon/Carbon: an anti-Concerto-Grosso for a hybrid laptop-acoustic orchestra   Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 10 pm BAM Cafe ACO presents Composers OutFront! Ned McGowan Free at BAM Cafe April 26 AT 10PM The composer & contrabass flutist appears with Susanna Borsch, recorder Derek Bermel, clarinet Stephen Gosling, piano Find out more...   Tuesday, May 6 & Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU Underwood New Music Readings ACO's annual roundup of the country's brightest young and emerging composers.   Earlier This Season   Friday, February 8, 2008 at 7:30 pm. Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 7:30 pm. Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia Orchestra Underground: Culture Shock Cultures elide in new works by composer-performers that span stylistic boundaries and diverse world music inspirations. David Alan Miller, Conductor Uri Caine, piano Evan Chambers, Irish fiddle Eva Gruesser, violin Terry Riley, voice and synthesizer I Wayan Sudirana, Balinese percussion Michael Tenzer, Balinese percussion TERRY RILEY: Remember This O Mind (New York and Philadelphia Premieres) MICHAEL TENZER: Resolution/Tabuh Gari for Balinese percussion & orchestra (World Premiere, ACO Commission) URI CAINE: New work for piano and orchestra (World Premiere, ACO Commission) EVAN CHAMBERS: Concerto for Fiddle and Violin   Monday, January 28, 2008 at 7:30 pm Joe's Pub at The Public Theater ACO presents Composers OutFront! Uri Caine & the Uri Caine Ensemble Known for his improvisational jazz-inflected permutations on music by composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, and Bach. This performance previews Caine's Double Trouble, a concerto for piano and orchestra that Caine premieres with ACO Feb. 8. with Ralph Alessi, trumpet; Joyce Hammann, violin; Moran Katz, clarinet; Jim Black, drums; Uri Caine, piano; and Drew Gress, bass. Find out more...   Friday, October 19, 2007 at 7:30 pm. Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 7:30 pm. Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia Orchestra Underground: Hybridity ACO challenges convention with four category-crossing world premieres, a multimedia collaboration, and a focus on the composer-performer. Steven Sloane, Principal Guest Conductor Steve Coleman, saxophone Susie Ibarra, percussion Scott Johnson, electric guitar Special Guest Ensemble: gutbucket Makoto Fujimura, projections SUSIE IBARRA: Pintados Dream (The Painted's Dream) (World Premiere, ACO Commission) CHARLES MINGUS: Revelations STEVE COLEMAN: The Illusion of Body for saxophone and orchestra (World Premiere, ACO Commission) KEN THOMSON: New work (World Premiere, ACO Commission) SCOTT JOHNSON: Stalking Horse for electric guitar and orchestra (World Premiere, ACO Commission) ANNA CLYNE: Spotlight Performance by Anna Clyne, amplified cello and tape; Joshue Ott, live visuals   Sunday, October 7, 2007 at 9:00 pm Brecht Forum 451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune) Steve Coleman & Aulos Extending its reach beyond its Carnegie Hall home base, ACO's season-long focus on composer-performers kicks off with a Composers OutFront! performance by composer-saxophonist Steve Coleman and the Aulos Trio, with Jonathan Finlayson, trumpet and Tim Albright, trombone. Admission is free. Find out more...   Click here to view concerts from previous seasions.