RARE PREMIERES
2009 FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN MUSIC
**Wednesday June 17 Through Saturday June 20th, 2009
ACA FESTIVAL OF AMERICAN MUSIC
SYMPHONY SPACE THALIA
2537 Broadway at 95th St. New York City
Schedule of programs/composers/performers/notes HERE
NEW ACA WEBSITE LAUNCH September 1st:
Current ACA members who would like to test the new site in development,
please send a request to: info at composers.com
Welcome to the
American Composers Alliance
PUBLISHER - DISTRIBUTOR -
CONCERT PRESENTER - ARCHIVIST
As a non-profit organization dedicated to American classical music, ACA is a publisher, distributor, archivist, custodian, and concert producer with a history dating to 1937. Our catalog of works is one of the most unique and diverse collections of music in the world and includes compositions by Miriam Gideon, Robert Helps, Otto Luening, Daniel Pinkham, Dane Rudhyar, Halsey Stevens, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Karl and Vally Weigl, and many others.
MORE UPCOMING EVENTS and NEWS
Wednesday, July 1 Release date: Albany Records CD of three "magnificent" concerti by John Melby, Emeritus Professor of Composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Concerto for Computer and Orchestra, performed by the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Joel Eric Suben, conductor; Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Computer, played by Duo Diorama [violinist MingHuan Xu and pianist Winston Choi]; and Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Computer, performed by Winston Choi.
Treemonisha, the 1910 Scott Joplin opera, in an orchestration by ACA composer Thomas J. Anderson, will receive a performance in August 2009 by Trilogy: An Opera Company, Conductor, Junius Williams, featuring soloists Kevin Maynor, Sam Mcdonald, and Janinah Burnett.
ACA composer Mark Thome, of Tumwater, WA, was among the prizewinners in this year's 2009 Humboldt Brass Chamber Music Competition. His work, "Scenes from Sylvester Park" for brass octet, won 3rd prize, an award of $500.The contest focused on original works for brass octet written for college-level players. http://www.humboldt.edu/~extended/special/brass/
May 16,17,18, 2009: The Concord Orchestra performed Robert McBride's VARIETY DAY for violin and orchestra, with Siri Smedvig, violin, conducted by Richard Pittman, at the Concord Performing Arts Center at 51 Walden. http://www.concordorchestra.com/
This is the season of he 45th anniversary of the premiere of Terry Riley's "In C," and this summer 2009, Oxford University Press will publish ACA-member Robert Carl's new book on the piece.
Audio podcast episode by Sony Records features Carl
speaking about the piece. http://kiptronic.sonybmgmedia.com/production/HTTP/masterworks.terryriley.inc.robertcarl.mp3
Also, Oxford Press blog features an article about the book:
http://blog.oup.com/2009/04/terry-rileys-in-c
November 21, 2009 (3pm and 7pm) "Prayers from the Ark"--poems of the late French Benedictine nun, Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, set to music for treble voices, soloists, and narrator, by longtime ACA composer, Frederick Balazs, will be performed by the Tucson Boys Chorus, Dr. Julian Ackerley, director.
November 19, 20 (8pm), and 22 (3pm), 2009 The Tucson Symphony Orchestra performs "SONG, AFTER WALT WHITMAN" - "OUT OF THE CRADLE ENDLESSLY ROCKING...OUT OF THE MOCK-BIRD'S THROAT--A REMINISCE SONG" by Frederick Balazs, based on the poem by Walt Whitman, for full orchestra, treble chorus, and soloists.
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