American Composers Orchestra's "ACO Parables"

Parables, led by guest conductor Rossen Milanov, explores music’s incredible ability to tell stories and weave tales. The program includes John Corigliano’s Troubadours featuring star guitarist Sharon Isbin, for whom the piece was written; the world premiere of Portrait of a Queen by 2016 Underwood New Music Readings commission winner Carlos Simon with narrator Rehanna Thelwell; the world premiere of Nina C. Young’s Out of whose womb came the ice featuring baritone David Tinervia and video by R. Luke DuBois, which tells the survival story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition of 1914-17; and the New York premiere ofPostcards by Bright Sheng, with four short movements in a folk music style from different regions of China.

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