Orchestra Underground: Contempo-Scary Music
Where: Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Ave. (at 57th St.)
212-247-7800 Price: $43-$51
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This concert opens ACO’s 40th Anniversary Season and celebrates Halloween with music inspired by all things sinister and suspenseful, including the world premiere of Paul Moravec’s Overlook Hotel Suite, an orchestral suite which takes musical material from The Shining, Moravec’s opera based on the Stephen King novel; Bernard Hermann’s Psycho Suite from the film score to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller; the world premiere of Judith Shatin’s Black Moon (the most auspicious phase of the moon for casting spells) for orchestra and conductor-controlled electronics, which was developed through ACO’s coLABoratory “R&D” program; and David del Tredici’s Dracula, a setting of the vampire tale as told in Alfred Corn’s poem “My Neighbor, the Distinguished Count,” featuring soprano-narrator Nancy Allen Lundy.
George Manahan, music director & conductor
Nancy Allen Lundy, narrator and soprano
Maxwell Tfirn, electronics engineer
BERNARD HERRMANN: Psycho Suite
JUDITH SHATIN: Black Moon for Orchestra and Conductor Controlled Electronics
(World Premiere – ACO/Carnegie Hall Commission)
-intermission-
PAUL MORAVEC: The Overlook Hotel Suite from “The Shining”
(World Premiere – ACO commission)
DAVID DEL TREDICI: Dracula
with soprano-narrator Nancy Allen Lundy