American Composers Orchestra

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American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is an American orchestra, founded in 1975 by Francis Thorne and Dennis Russell Davies, and gave its debut performance in 1977. ACO is based in New York City and is the only orchestra in the world dedicated to the creation, performance, preservation, and promulgation of music by American composers. ACO is extending its mission, making the creation of new opportunities for American composers and new American orchestral music its central purpose. Through its concerts at Carnegie Hall and other venues, recordings, radio broadcasts, educational programs, New Music Readings, and commissions, ACO identifies today's brightest emerging composers, champions prominent established composers as well as those lesser-known, and increases regional, national, and international awareness of the infinite variety of American orchestral music, reflecting geographic, stylistic, and temporal diversity. ACO also serves as an incubator of ideas, research, and talent, as a catalyst for growth and change among orchestras, and as an advocate for American composers and their music. To date, ACO has performed music by 500 American composers, including 150 world premieres and newly commissioned works. Among the orchestra's innovative programs have been Sonidos de las Américas, six annual festivals devoted to Latin American composers and their music; Coming to America, a program immersing audiences in the ongoing evolution of American music through the work of immigrant

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Yellow Lounge Vol. 2

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Yellow Lounge Vol.3

Philip Glass: Heroes Symphony

Music of Robert Beaser

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Glass: Heroes Symphony

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Heroes Symphony

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Philip Glass: Low Symphony & Heroes Symphony

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Philip Glass: "Heroes" Symphony (From the Music of David Bowie & Brian Eno)

"Mysterious Mountain", Lousadzak, Symphony No. 2 "Elegiac"

Music of Elliott Carter

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Philip Glass: Low Symphony/Heroes Symphony

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