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20th Century Snapshots - A Millennium Celebration

Denotes "20th Century Snapshots" concert:
A multi-year series celebrating the Millennium.

2006-2007: 30th Anniversary Season

Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 9:30 pm
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Susie IbarraSusie Ibarra:
Barangay Rhythms
Weaving a fascinating mix of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Thai rhythms and cultures with contemporary composition and improvisation. Featuring Electric Kulintang with music from their new recording to be released this fall.

Susie Ibarra, acoustic & electric kulintang, drum set, vocals & keyboard;
plus Electric Kulintang with Roberto Rodriguez, electronics, cajon & percussion;
also with Gilad Harel, clarinets; Mari Kimura, violin & electronics; Jade Simmons, piano; Joseph Trent, flutes; Tomas Ulrich, cello

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Sold OutFriday, October 13, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia

Orchestra Underground: Composers OutFront!

ACO's groundbreaking series reinvents the orchestra with four world premieres, a multi-media collaboration, and a new focus on composer-performers.

Brad Lubman, guest conductor
Evan Ziporyn, bass clarinet
Lauren Radnofsky, amplified cello
Susie Ibarra, percussion
Corey Dargel, vocalist
Jim Altieri, violin

CHARLES IVES: Ragtime Dances
EVAN ZIPORYN: Big Grenadilla (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
MICHAEL GATONSKA: After the Wings of Migratory Birds (World Premiere, ACO/Underwood Commission)
MICHAEL GANDOLFI: As Above (with video by Ean White) (NY and Philadelphia Premieres)
BRAD LUBMAN: New Work (with visual installation by Boom Design Group) (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
SUSIE IBARRA: Optical Illusion - Meditation in White Light (NY Premiere)
COREY DARGEL All the Notes & Rhythms I've Ever Loved (World Premiere)

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Friday, October 20, 2006 at 7:00 pm
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater
ACO presents Composers OutFront!
Brad Lubman's Electric Fuzz (NYC Debut)

Brad LubmanThe versatile conductor-composer-instrumentalist Brad Lubman's latest project creates new artistic synergies,
juxtaposing acoustic music with electronics, pop-art and the avant-garde.

Brad Lubman, keyboards, synth, & percussion
with Will Chapin, electric guitar; Paul Coleman, electronics; Olivia DePrato, violin; Charlie Dye, percussion;
Juliet Grabowski, clarinets & koto; Oliver Hagen, keyboards; Lauren Radnofsky, cello & electronics; Todd Reynolds, violin

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Thurs., Fri. & Saturday, November 16, 17 & 18, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln CenterSold Out

ACO & Jazz at Lincoln Center

Wynton MarsalisSteven Sloane, conductor
Marcus Roberts, piano
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with
Wynton Marsalis

GEORGE GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
DEREK BERMEL: The Migration Series (World Premiere, ACO/Music Alive Commission)
plus great American song orchestrations by NELSON RIDDLE

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Friday, March 2, 2007 at 9:30 pm
BAMCafé. Admission is Free.
ACO presents Composers OutFront!Andrew McKenna Lee, guitarist/composer
Andrew McKenna Lee: From the Raunchy to the Refined

Andrew McKenna Lee pushes the envelope with his original compositions for electric and acoustic guitar - solo and with allied musical mavericks Janus and NOW Ensemble.

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Sunday, March 25, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia

Monday, March 26, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

Orchestra Underground: Composers OutFront!

ACO challenges conventional notions about orchestra music with category-breaking premieres that continue a focus on composer as performer.

Dennis Russell Davies, conductor laureate
Vijay Iyer, piano
Steven Mackey, electric guitar
Kurt Rohde, viola
Harold Meltzer, harpsichord
Jason Treuting, percussion
Andrew McKenna Lee, guitar
Min Xiao-Fen, pipa

STEVEN MACKEY: Deal for Electric Guitar & Chamber Orchestra (Philadelphia and New York Premieres)
KURT ROHDE: White Boy/Man Invisible (NY Premiere, ACO Commission)
VIJAY IYER: Interventions (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
HAROLD MELTZER: Virginal
TANIA LEÓN: Indigena
plus music by ANDREW McKENNA LEE & MIN XIAO-FEN

Friday, March 30, 2007 at 9:30 pm
BAMCafé. Admission is Free.
ACO presents Composers OutFront!Min Xiao-Feng, composer and pipa virtuoso
Min Xiao-Fen: Blue Pipa Trio

Pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-Fen's Blue Pipa Trio integrates and improvises on the best of Chinese folk music, Jazz standards and even Bluegrass. With Bill McCrossen, bass & Steve Salerno, guitar.

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 Friday & Saturday, April 13, 1:30 - 4:30pm. Free.
Saturday, April 14, 7:30pm.

Harold Prince Theater
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia

Jeffrey Milarsky and ACOACO/Penn New Music Readings & Lab

Featuring brand new music by five emerging composers from the Philadelphia-area.

Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Derek Bermel, Music Alive composer-in-residence
Jennifer Higdon, mentor composer
Gerald Levinson, mentor composer
Jay Reise, mentor composer

MICHAEL DJUPSTROM: Gaeng
JOHN B. HEDGES: Scirocco Dances
DAVID LAGANELLA: Under Ethereal
GREGORY SPEARS: Finishing
ALAN TORMEY: Cleveland is a State of Mind

 John AdamsFriday, April 27, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall

An Adams Apple: John Adams at 60

John Adams, conductor
Leila Josefowicz, violin
Eric Owens, bass-baritone

JOHN ADAMS: My Father Knew Charles Ives
The Wound Dresser
Violin Concerto

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Tuesday & Wednesday, May 8 & 9, 2007
10:00 am - 1:00 pm. Admission is Free.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts

Underwood New Music Readings

ACO's annual roundup of the country's brightest young and emerging composers selected from a national search.

Paul Lustig Dunkel & David Alan Miller, conductors
Robert Beaser, artistic director
Derek Bermel, Tania León, Christopher Theofanides & Yehudi Wyner, mentor composers

ROSHANNE ETEZADY: Cereus
HSU CHIA-YU: Fantasy on Wang Bao Chuan
XINYAN LI: Mountain Sacrifice No. 2
NORBERT PALEJ: Movimento Sinfonico
AMY KIRSTEN: Strange Angel
PHILIPPE BODIN: Fling
JOSEPH PEREIRA: Mask
RYAN STREBER: Arcuare
CLINT NEEDHAM: Earth and Green

 

 

2005-2006 Season

Friday, November 11, 2005
7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

Orchestra Underground
"Music in Motion"

Steven Sloane, conductor
Pilobolus Dance Theatre
Alison Chase, choreography
Mirra Bank, film
Carole Farley, soprano
Margaret Lloyd, soprano

CONLON NANCARROW: Study No. 7 (Orchestrated by Yvar Mikhashoff)
JOSÉ SEREBRIER: Symphony No. 3, Symphonie Mystique (World Premiere)
MICHAEL TORKE: Four Proverbs (World Premiere, Chamber Orchestra Version)
EDWARD BILOUS: Lucid Dreams (World Premiere)

Orchestra Underground is presented with the generous support of
The Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.

 

Sunday, November 13, 2005
7:30 PM at Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center for the Arts
Philadelphia, PA

Orchestra Underground
"Music in Motion"

repeat of November 11 program

 

Saturday, February 4, 2006
7:30 PM at Harold Prince Theater, Annenberg Center for the Arts
Philadelphia, PA

Underground Mix

Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Lauren Flanigan, soprano
Daniel Druckman, percussion

Randall Woolf: BYOD (Philadelphia Premiere)
Steven Mackey: Micro-Concerto (Philadelphia Premiere)
Hiroya Miura: New Work (World Premiere)
Robert Beaser: Songs from "The Occasions"

 

Friday, March 17, 2006

7:30 pm at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

Orchestra Underground
“Tech & Techno”

Steven Sloane, conductor
Todd Reynolds, electric violin
DJ Scientific , laptop
Bill T. Jones, narrator

JUSTIN MESSINA: Abandon (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
EDMUND CAMPION: Practice (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
NEIL ROLNICK: iFiddle Concerto (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
MASON BATES: Omnivorous Furniture (New York Premiere)
DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN: Call Them All: Fantasy Projections for Film Laptop and Orchestra (World Premiere, ACO Commission)

Orchestra Underground is presented with the generous support of
The Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.

 

Saturday, March 18, 2006
7:30 PM at Zellerbach Theater, Annenberg Center for the Arts
Philadelphia, PA

Orchestra Underground
“Tech & Techno”

Repeat of March 17 program

 

Sunday, April 30, 2006
2:00 PM
Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

Family Concert
Let's Go to the Movies featuring some of Hollywood's favorite kid-friendly film music, including music from Harry Potter, Star Wars, and The Lion King. Pre-concert educational activities for kids start at 12:30 PM. Tickets only $8.

Deborah VoigtWednesday, May 3, 2006
8:00 PM at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall

“Erotic Spirits”
Steven Sloane, conductor
Deborah Voigt, Soprano
ACO Singers, Judith Clurman, director

KRISTIN KUSTER: Myrrha
(World Premiere, ACO/The Helen F. Whitaker Fund Commission)
DEREK BERMEL: Elixir
(World Premiere, ACO/Betty Freeman/Westchester Philharmonic Commission)
BRIAN CURRENT: Symphonies in Slanted Time
(New York Premiere, Barlow Endowment Commission)
STEPHEN PAULUS: Erotic Spirits (New York Premiere)

 

Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Friday May 19, 2006 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Miller Theatre
Columbia University (116th St. and Broadway)

15th Annual
Underwood New Music Readings
ACO's annual roundup of the country's brightest young and emerging composers.

May 18
ROBERT GATES: Aerials
ANDREA REINKEMEYER: Lured by the Horizon
FANG MAN: Black and White
ANNA CLYNE: rewind

May 19
PAUL RICHARDS: Music for Midsummer
JEFF MYERS: Metamorphosis III
MATTHEW TOMMASINI: Songs Lost and Forgotten

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.


2004-2005 Season

Wednesday, November 17, 2004
7:30 pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

Orchestra Underground

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 (World Premiere)
video by Mary Harron and John C. Walsh
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 at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

Orchestra Underground
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


Danny ElfmanWednesday, February 23, 2005. 8:00 pm at Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium

ACO at Carnegie Hall
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, 115th Street and Broadway

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.

2003-2004 Season

Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Carnegie Hall — Isaac Stern Auditorium
8:00 pm
Different Trains
Dramatic music for strings featuring a haunting sonic landscape by Steve Reich, one of America’s most influential composer-creators
Steven Sloane, conductor
James Stubbs, trumpet

JOHN ADAMS: Christian Zeal and Activity
CHARLES WUORINEN: Grand Bamboula
ANNA WEESNER: Still Things Move (New York Premiere)
IRVING FINE: Serious Song: A Lament for String Orchestra
ALAN HOVHANESS: The Holy City, op. 218
STEVE REICH: Different Trains (Version for String Orchestra and pre-recorded tape) (New York Premiere)


Friday, February 27, 2004
Carnegie Hall — Zankel Hall
7:30 pm
Orchestra Underground
Two new works that re-invent the orchestra concert with multimedia and altered instrumentation
Steven Sloane, conductor
Andrew Armstrong, piano

LISA BIELAWA: The Right Weather
(World Premiere, Commissioned by the Helen F. Whitaker Fund)

Gotham (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
In Collaboration with Ridge Theater and Hypnotic Pictures
MICHAEL GORDON, composer
BILL MORRISON, filmaker
LAURIE OLINDER, visual artist
BOB McGRATH, director


Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Carnegie Hall — Isaac Stern Auditorium
8:00 pm
Fanfares and Fire
A high-energy blast of new music with reflective music by Nicholas Maw
Steven Sloane, conductor
eighth blackbird

DAVID SCHOBER: Split Horizon Concerto for Sextet and Orchestra (World Premiere, Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation)
DARON HAGEN: Fire Music (New York Premiere)
NED ROREM: Lions
NICHOLAS MAW: The World in the Evening (New York Premiere)


Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Carnegie Hall — Isaac Stern Auditorium
8:00 pm
Improvise!
Improvisation meets the orchestra...the centerpiece of a week-long festival

Steven Sloane, conductor
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Anthony Davis, piano
Chico Freeman, saxophone
Gerry Hemingway, percussion

ALVIN SINGLETON: When Given A Choice (World Premiere, Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress and American Composers Orchestra)
EARLE BROWN: Event: Synergy II
ANTHONY DAVIS: Wayang V (New York Premiere)
GEORGE LEWIS: Virtual Concerto (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
DUKE ELLINGTON: Les Trois Rois Noirs


Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Friday May 21, 2004 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University, 116th Street and Broadway
13th Annual Whitaker New Music Readings
ACO's annual round-up of the best and brightest works by emerging American composers.

Robert Beaser, artistic director
Jeffrey Milarsky & Carl St. Clair, conductors
Stephen Hartke and Michael Daugherty, mentor composers

DANIEL BRADSHAW: Jubilus
ANTHONY CHEUNG: 1st Movement, from Symphony No. 1
RALF GAWLICK: …De La Mas Sabrosa Y Agradable Vida…
KRISTIN KUSTER: The Narrows
JONATHAN NEWMAN: Hip + Now
THOMAS OSBORNE: The Burning Music
ROBERT PATERSON: Electric Lines
CHRISTOPHER TRAPANI: North


2002-2003 Season

Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 3pm

A Program of Psalms
Carnegie Hall

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, baritone

DAVID 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)


Composers OutFrontFriday, February 21, 2003 at 7pm
Randall Woolf
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater

Randall WoolfTurn 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.

Tickets for this performance are now available: $20 at the box office or through telecharge at 212 239 6200, www.telecharge.com. Joe's Pub is located at 425 Lafayette Street in Manhattan.


Sunday, March 2, 2003 at 3pm
Zappa and the Emerging American Composer
Carnegie Hall

Steven Sloane, conductor
David Moss, Omar Ebrahim, vocalists

ImageDAN 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 (U.S. Premiere)
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
Antony and Cleopatra
Carnegie Hall

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

Photo Credit: Hiroyuki ItoWhitaker New Music Readings

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.

 
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2001-2002 Season

Orchestra Tech

Orchestra Tech
October 10 - 14, 2001 / New York City

A five-day conference and concert series exploring the integration of technology and the orchestra. Click here to learn more about the Orchestra Tech conference.

Wednesday, October 10, 2001 at 8 pm
Miller Theatre, Columbia University [directions & venue info]
American Composers Orchestra
Orchestra Tech Opening Concert
Gil Rose and Jeffrey Milarsky, conductors
Steven Schick, percussion
JOHN OSWALD: Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra (New York Premiere)
OTTO LUENING: Synthesis
EDMUND CAMPION: What goes up... (New York Premiere)
DAVID FELDER: In Between (New York Premiere)
RANDALL WOOLF: Hee Haw

Tickets: $20. Call 212.854.7799, or online at www.millertheatre.com.


Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 8 pm
Merkin Concert Hall [directions & venue info]
Orchestra Tech presents Speculum Musicae
MARK APPLEBAUM: Scipio wakes up (New York Premiere)
JAMES MOBBERLY: Soggiorno (New York Premiere)
JOSHUA FINEBERG: Empreintes (U.S. Premiere)
MATHEW ROSENBLUM: Nü Kuan Tzu

Tickets: $20. Call 212.501.3330


Friday, October 12, 2001 at 8 pm
Great Hall, Cooper Union [directions & venue info]
Ethel: Electric Quartet
with Carol Wincenc, flute
STEVE MACKEY: String Theory
RICARDO DAL FARRA: Homotecia (World Premiere)
INGRAM MARSHALL: Fog Tropes II
RAND STEIGER: 13 Loops (World premiere, New Version)
MARK WINGATE: Prophecy
ROGER REYNOLDS: Ariadne's Thread (New York Premiere)

Tickets: $15. Call 212.279.4200, or online at www.ticketweb.com.


Saturday, October 13, 2001 at 8 pm
The Knitting Factory [directions & venue info]
Electro-Acoustic Composers Out Front!
Composer-performers explore new worlds of technology, improvisation and virtuosity with performances by:
MARI KIMURA
MARTHA MOOKE
DANIEL TRUEMAN
GOLAN LEVIN

Tickets $20. Call 212.210.3006, or online at www.virtuous.com.


Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 8 pm
Carnegie Hall [directions & venue info]
American Composers Orchestra
Technology and the Orchestra

Sunday, October 14, 2001 at 8 pm
Carnegie Hall
American Composers Orchestra
Technology and the Orchestra
Paul Lustig Dunkel, conductor
EDGARD VARESE: Déserts (with video created by Bill Viola) (New York Premiere)
TOD MACHOVER: Sparkler (World Premiere, ACO Commission)
MORTON SUBOTNICK: Before the Butterfly (World Premiere, Digital Version)
TRISTAN MURAIL: Le Partage des Eaux (U.S. Premiere)

Tickets: $47, $36, $17. Call CarnegieCharge at 212.247.7800, or online at www.carnegiehall.org.


Sunday, February 3, 2002 at 3 pm
Philip GlassPhilip Glass 65th Birthday Concert
Carnegie Hall

  Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
  Lauren Flanigan, soprano
  Raschèr Saxophone Quartet

PHILIP GLASS/RAVI SHANKAR: Passages (U.S. Premiere)
PHILIP GLASS: Symphony No. 6, "Plutonian Ode" (World Premiere, Carnegie Hall Corporation and Bruckner Orchestra, Linz Commission)

For tickets call CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800;
or buy online at www.carnegiehall.org


Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 3 pm
ACO 25th Anniversary Concert, Part I
Carnegie Hall

 IcebreakerSteven Sloane Steven Sloane, conductor (Carnegie Hall Debut)
  Icebreaker, guest ensemble

STEWART WALLACE: The Book of Five (World Premiere, ACO/ASCAP Foundation Commission)
ERICH KORNGOLD: Symphony in F#, Op. 40