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"Music
in Motion" Opens ACO's Orchestra
Underground
Conlon
Nancarrow: Study No. 7
Tickets & Information ACO
performs at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall Friday, November 11, 2005 at
7:30 PM. Tickets are $27 and $35, and may be purchased through CarnegieCharge
at 212-247-7800, by visiting Carnegie Hall’s website at www.carnegiehall.org,
or at the Carnegie Hall box office, 57th Street at 7th Ave. Discount
subscription packages are also available.
Major support
of American Composers Orchestra is provided by American Symphony
Orchestra League, Amphion Foundation, Anncox Foundation, The Argosy
Foundation Contemporary Music Fund, Arlington Associates, ASCAP, The
Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts, Bodman Foundation, Booth
Ferris Foundation, BMI, BMI Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable
Trust, Citigroup Foundation, Edward T. Cone Foundation, Consolidated
Edison, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Eleanor Naylor Dana
Charitable Trust, Fidelity Foundation, Fromm Music Foundation, Ann
and Gordon Getty Foundation, The Estate of Francis Goelet, Horace W.
Goldsmith Foundation, The Irving Harris Foundation, Henfield
Foundation, Victor Herbert Foundation, Christian Humann Foundation,
Jephson Educational Trust, Jerome Foundation, John and Evelyn Kossak
Foundation, Helen Sperry Lea Foundation, Meet the Composer, Neil
Family Fund, The New York Community Trust, Bay and Paul Foundations,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Rodgers Family Foundation, The Rodgers
& Hammerstein Organization, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels
Foundation, The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation, Smith Barney, the
Virgil Thomson Foundation, The Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation, Paul
Underwood Charitable Trust, The Watchdog and Sonata Charitable Trust
and The Helen F. Whitaker Fund. ACO programs are also made possible
with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New
York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of
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American
Composers Orchestra opens its 2005-06 season with a program entitled "Music
in Motion,"
part of its provocative Orchestra Underground series at Zankel Hall
at Carnegie Hall. Along with a unique collaboration between composer 
Acclaimed for its non-traditional but powerful and deeply
collaborative approach to choreography and dance, Pilobolus
Dance Theater is
recognized as a major American dance company of international
influence. The New
York Times calls
Pilobolus, "a much-needed breath of fresh air in the somewhat
solemn climate of modern dance."
Conlon
Nancarrow's Studies were composed for player piano with the idea
that the physical movement required to create the sounds the composer
desired could be achieved only by the mechanical player. Many of the
studies have been arranged for orchestra, creating the wonderful
contradiction of a work unplayable by a human now being played by a
whole group of humans. Offering a contrasting view of the connection
between sound and motion, Nancarrow is increasingly recognized as
having one of the most innovative musical minds of the past century.
His work is known for its rhythmic complexity with intricate
contrapuntal systems consisting of up to twelve different tempos at
the same time. At a duration of approximately 10 minutes, Study No.
7, written between 1948-60, is the longest of the early studies and a
tour-de-force. The arrangement is by the late pianist and
performer/curator Yvar Mikhashoff, known for his devotion to 20th
century works.
In
Four Proverbs,
for female voice and ensemble, Michael Torke manipulates words in
the same way that he has manipulated thematic cells in his earlier
works, creating unique relationships between text and music. The
original instrumentation for the work is expanded for this premiere,
transcribing the synthesizer part for flutes, bassoons and horns to
create a richer and more complex sound. The ACO performance features
soprano Margaret Lloyd,
a singer often associated with the composer's music. Torke writes
that he is interested in clarity and in one-to-one relationships
between a word and a note. What happens when the notes begin to move
around within this strict arrangement results in the composer's
characteristic stamp of restless rhythmic energy and humor while
creating a bit of a house of mirrors with the text, until it is all
sorted out again. Torke has created a substantial body of work in
virtually every genre and his music has been called "some of the
most optimistic, joyful and thoroughly uplifting music to appear in
recent years."