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Carnegie Hall Presents

American Composers Orchestra

Hello, America: Transatlantic
Thursday, March 6, 2025 7:30 PM Zankel Hall
Tito Muñoz by Manuel Braun, Clarice Assad by Marcelo Macaue, Edmar Castañeda by Diana Bejarano
The American Composers Orchestra is a Carnegie Hall staple, with every performance adding to its vast repertoire. As part of the Hall’s celebration of Latin culture in the US, this concert features two singular performers in premieres of their own original works: virtuoso jazz harpist Edmar Castañeda, who “raises the bar for every harpist” (NPR); and electronics artist Clarice Assad, who “negotiates the line between chamber jazz and classical music with ... her native [Brazilian] rhythms” (The Chicago Reader). Conducted by Tito Munõz, the orchestra also treats audiences to an uplifting piece by 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner Tania León; Alice Coltrane’s interpretation of Going Home, derived from Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony; and an additional world premiere by Los Angeles’ Tomàs Peire Serrate. Keeping the energy high throughout the program are interludes by Brazilian percussion ensemble Harlem Samba.

Part of: Fast Forward I and Nuestros sonidos

Performers

American Composers Orchestra
Tito Muñoz, Conductor
Clarice Assad, Electronics
Edmar Castañeda, Harp
Harlem Samba

Program

A. COLTRANE Going Home (after Dvořák's Largo from Symphony No. 9, "From the New World")

TANIA LEÓN Ácana

TOMÀS PEIRE SERRATE New Work (World Premiere)

CLARICE ASSAD Evolution of AI for Electronics, Gestural AI, and Orchestra (NY Premiere)

EDMAR CASTAÑEDA New Work for Harp and Orchestra (World Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

Claure Family Foundation
Lead support for Nuestros sonidos is provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Claure Family Foundation.
Major support is provided by the Hearst Foundations and additional support by The Charles E. Culpeper Fund of the New York Community Trust.
New York City Tourism Foundation
Funded in part by a grant from the New York City Tourism Foundation.

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