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American Composers Orchestra’s 40th Birthday Concert & Gala

  • Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall Broadway at 60th St. New York, NY 10019 (map)

Program:

  • ELIZABETH OGONEK: Sleep and Unremembrance (2015) (U.S. Premiere)
  • LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Clarinet Sonata (1941-42, orchestrated by Sid Ramin 1994)
  • PAOLA PRESTINI: Prelude and Aria from Gilgamesh (2016) (NY Premiere)
  • DUKE ELLINGTON: Black, Brown & Beige (1943)
  • FRANCIS THORNE: Fanfare, Fugue and Funk (1972)

Selections from the American Songbook for voice and orchestra including

  • George GERSHWIN: Fascinatin Rhythm
  • Jerome KERN: All The Things You Are
  • Harold ARLEN: Over the Rainbow
Source:: http://www.americancomposers.org/2017/08/01/american-composers-orchestras-40th-birthday-concert-gala/
Earlier Event: October 25
The Music Paradigm String Quartet
Later Event: November 18
Canterbury Choral Society performs Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony