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American Composers Alliance
As a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting contemporary music, ACA is a publisher-affiliate of BMI, archivist, and concert presenter, with a history dating to 1937. Our catalog of works is one of the most unique and diverse collections of American music in the United States and includes compositions from the early 1900s to the present day by such composers as Miriam Gideon, Robert Helps, Otto Luening, Daniel Pinkham, Dane Rudhyar, Halsey Stevens, Joan Tower, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Charles Wuorinen, and many others.
Composers Recordings, Inc. LP Catalog Now Being Made Available by New World Records
First Batch of Unissued CRI LPs Now Available as On-demand CD-Rs
Fulfilling its promise to make the entire CRI catalog available
again, New World Records is pleased to announce the availability of the first
batch of digitized CRI LPs as premium-quality on-demand CD-Rs, including the
original liner notes. Twenty titles, including music by Charles Amirkhanian,
Jack Beeson, Easley Blackwood, Julian Carrillo, Theodore Chanler, Mario
Davidovsky, Robert Erickson, Ben Johnston, Kenneth Gaburo, John Melby, Quincy
Porter, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Robert Ward comprise the first set of
releases,
Javier Alvarez: Temazcal for maracas and electronics Bill Alves: Inyo for shakuhachi and electronics John Cage: Ryoanji for shakuhachi and electronics Tom Flaherty: Shepard's Pi for toy piano and electronics Mary Jane Leach: Bach's Set for solo cello and 8 prerecorded cellos Dennis Miller: Faktura for video Maurice Wright: GENIS for video
Performed by Genevieve Feiwen Lee, toy piano Theresa Dimond, maracas Tom Flaherty, cello Rachel Rudich, flute Bill Alves, percussion Saturday, February 6 at 8:00 PM Lyman Hall, Pomona College 340 N. College Ave. Claremont, California Admission Free
On Saturday, April 10, 2010, The Emerson String Quartet gives the US Premiere of Lawrence Dillon's String Quartet No. 5: Through the Night in Watson Hall at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
The nu ensemble, under the baton of Ransom Wilson, gives the world premiere of Lawrence Dillon's "Genealogie" for actor, three singers and six instruments in Watson Hall at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Daedalus String Quartet performs Philadelphia premiere of Lawrence Dillon's "String Quartet No. 4: The Infinite Sphere" at the University of Pennsylvania's Irvine Auditorium.
KHOJ, THE SEARCH FOR LIGHT for orchestra and narrator, to be performed Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Scottish Rite Center in Milwaukee. The Concord Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jamin Hoffman, will be performing.
Khoj is a series of miniatures for orchestra and narrator illustrating the text of Asian Indian
story teller and author Gita Kar. The Hindi word 'khoj' means 'the
wonder of discovery.'
First performed by the New York Philharmonic in 1983, Kernis cemented his reputation in the 1990s with a series of appealing works that deftly blended minimalist and neo-Romantic influences. A tribute concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge--performed by musicians including violinists James Ehnes and Tim Fain, singers Sadie Rosales and Robert Osborne, the guitarist David Tanenbaum, and pianist Evelyne Luest--will take place on Monday evening, Jan. 18, at 7:30pm Ticket information here.
American Opera Projects and LivelyWorks present a workshop production of THE GOLDEN GATE, an opera in two acts.
Music by Conrad Cummings Libretto from the novel-in-verse by Vikram Seth adapted by the composer.
Performances by: baritone David Adam Moore, tenor Keith Jameson, mezzo Hai-Ting Chinn, bass Kevin Burdette, and soprano Katrina Thurman. Steven Osgood, conductor, John Henry Davis, director
Saturday, January 16 & Sunday January 17, 2010 - 8:00 PM
The Rose Studio
10th Floor of the Rose Building
New York, NY
Composers Concordance presents a marathon concert entitled 'Composers
Play Composers' on Sunday, January 31, 2010, 6:00 PM doors,
7:00-10:00PM performance time at the club Drom in New York, 85 Avenue A
(between 5th & 6th), New York, NY. 212-777-1157. www.dromnyc.com.
Live visuals by Astrid Steiner (luma.launisch) and media by Carmen
Kordas.
The 23 composers, chosen by a somewhat "random criterion" from an initial list of 150 are: Roger
Blanc, Thomas Bo, Luis Andrei Cobo, Charles Coleman, Dan Cooper, Larry
Goldman, David Gotay, Patrick Grant, Franz Hackl, Don Hagar, Arthur
Kampela, Alon Nechushtan, Daniel Palkowski, Milica Paranosic, Akmal
Parwez, Joseph Pehrson, Gene Pritsker, Paola Prestini, Jody Redhage,
Kamala Sankaram, William Schimmel, Andrew Violette, and Theodore
Wiprud.
This concert, in collaboration with VisionIntoArt, will
consist of a 3 hour performance with 23 composers playing their own
works. The marathon will have 3 sets with 2 short 10 minute breaks.
Treemonisha, America's first indigenous opera, composed by Scott Joplin in 1910, will be performed by the Washington Savoyards, N. Thomas Pedersen, Artistic Director. Nine shows are planned, for February 19, 20, 21; 26,27,28; and March 5,6,7, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington DC, Marvin Mills, conducting.
This production features the orchestration/arrangement by ACA composer, Thomas J. Anderson. Anderson is well-known for his orchestration of the Scott Joplin opera, as well as for his oeuvre of more than 100 works in the symphonic, choral, chamber, and band genres. The frequently-commissioned composer has written for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and cellist Yo Yo Ma (Spirit Songs).
Solo
piano, two-piano, cello-violin-piano ensemble, and vocal performance of soprano
Yolanda Rhodes performing works of African American Composers H. Leslie Adams, Margaret Bonds, Charles Brown,
Valerie Capers, Betty Jackson King, Undine Smith Moore, Florence B. Price,
Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, Billie Holiday, Howard Swanson, and William Grant
Still.
Sunday,
January 24 (2010) at 3:00 p.m.
Where:
Performing Arts Center, Eastside College Preparatory School
This week, Golden Fleece/Composers Chamber Theatre presents "Song New York" with works by Richard Brooks, Mira J. Spektor, Charles Coleman, Virgil Thomson, and songs by Gary Schneidercomposed for Arnold Wesker’s play "Letter to a Daughter"
Rene Weiller Hall Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street New York, NY 10014
The Other Side of Time,
by Brian Fennelly, was written for the New England Conservatory Wind
Ensemble at the request of its director, Charles Peltz, and will
premiere in concert at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory in Boston,
MA, on February 25th. The work is 13 minutes long and is scored for
25 woodwind and brass instruments, timpani, and 4 percussionists.
