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American Composers Orchestra
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Among the honors ACO has received are a special award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a proclamation from the New York City Council, and the American Music Center's Letter of Distinction "for unique dedication to the music of American composers." BMI has honored ACO for its outstanding contribution to American music. ACO has been awarded the ASCAP annual prize for adventurous programming 36 times, and has been singled out by ASCAP as "the orchestra that has done the most for new American music in the United States."
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June 5-6: First Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings presented by The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and American Composers Orchestra
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Jensen Artists
American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University will present the first-ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI) Readings at Columbia University's Miller Theatre (Broadway at 116th St.) on June 5 at 2pm (working rehearsal) and June 6 at 7:30pm (run-through). Both events are free and open to the public, giving audiences a chance to look behind the scenes at the process involved in bringing brand new, stylistically diverse orchestral music to life. The JCOI Readings ...
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The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University & American Composers Orchestra Present First-Ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute
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Jensen Artists
July 20-24, 2010
34 jazz composers ranging in age from 17 to 67 years old converge on the Columbia University Campus to explore writing for the symphony orchestra
Culminates with two public concerts: Wet Ink Friday, July 23, 2010 at 8:00pm
American Composers Orchestra Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 8:00pm
Miller Theatre at Columbia University (116th Street & Broadway, NYC) Tickets: $25 each concert, at millertheatre.com or at ...
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American Composers Orchestra Kicks Off Orchestra Underground in Zankel Hall
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All About Jazz
On Friday, October 19 at 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Hall presents the American Composers Orchestra, led by Principal Guest Conductor Steven Sloane, in a program that includes world premiere performances of four new works in Zankel Hall. Composers join the orchestra for the evening's program, entitled Hybridity, which will feature percussionist Susie Ibarra's Pintados Dream (The Painted's Dream) with visual projections by Makoto Fujimura; saxophonist Steve Coleman's The Illusion of the Body; Ken Thomson's Wait Your Turn, which features special guest ...
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"If orchestras are more accommodating to living composers today, the ACO can rightfully claim at least some of the credit." Steve Smith, Time Out New York
"...the organization exists to upend the status quo with symphonic magnitude." Philadelphia Inquirer
"Over the past decade, a new generation of composers and performers has arisen, refusing to submit to genre boundaries or dusty ideological battles, jacking up the cool quotient on New York's new-music scene. The SONiC Festival… aims to immerse audiences in this new paradigm." Time Out New York