American Composers Orchestra 'Playing it UNsafe: Call for Scores'

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Richard Greene suggests that an announcement be shared with readers of AfriClassical:

AmericanComposers.org

American Composers Orchestra's laboratory for new and innovative orchestral music

Deadline: 5PM April 30, 2010

ACO announces Playing it UNsafe, a research and development laboratory for the creation, reading, and performance of experimental new works by American composers. The goal of the program is to encourage composers to experiment and stretch their own musical sensibilities by developing new works (or works-in-progress) that expand the range of possibilities for—and challenge convention notions about—orchestral music. Playing it UNsafe was conceived to address the pressures and limitations often encountered by composers writing new works for orchestra, a situation that tends to inhibit risk-taking composition and encourages a “play it safe” approach. The program will include an extended series of rehearsal and public workshop/readings with ACO’s Orchestra Underground during the 2010-11 season, culminating in performance in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on March 4, 2011.