Following a solo performance with the American Composers Orchestra last season, Susie Ibarra returns with a concerto for drums and orchestra, and visual imagery by Makoto Fujimura. Entitled Pintados Dream (The Painted's Dream), Ms. Ibarra's concerto is formed in two movements with material that emerged from her documentary fieldwork with the indigenous people of Japan and the Philippine Islands. Steve Coleman's new work for alto saxophone and orchestra, entitled The Illusion of the Body, continues his exploration of the M-BASE musical philosophy of expressing experiences through music that uses both improvisation and structures as its main components. Brooklyn-based composer Ken Thomson explores the juxtaposition of the concepts of “classical" and “jazz" with Wait Your Turn, a piece for two different orchestras.
The multi-genre, art-rock ensemble, gutbucket, joins the orchestra on stage in a side-by-side performance. Known for blending chamber and rock music for mixed electro-acoustic ensembles, Scott Johnson appears as electric guitar soloist in his first work for orchestra, Stalking Horse. The piece is based on his 1994 chamber work, Rent Party. Cellist Anna Clyne collaborates with visual artist and designer Joshue Ott on Paintbox, a piece for amplified cello and tape that was composed from a small palette of vocal and cello recordings. Mr. Ott joins Ms. Clyne on stage to provide on-the-spot drawings.
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