Event Information:

• Tue

  07

  Nov

  2017

  New York City: American Composers Orchestra 40th Birthday Gala

  7:30 pmJazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall

  Dennis Russell Davies joins current conductor George Manahan and the American Composers Orchestra for the celebration of the orchestra's 40th birthday along with Derek Bermel, clarinet, Mikaela Bennett, soprano, and Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor.

  Be there and celebrate American Composers Orchestra’s 40th Birthday honoring
  Ellen and James S. Marcus
  Francis Thorne
  Paul Lustig Dunkel
  Jamie, Nina & Alexander Bernstein
  Paola Prestini

  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