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'LIVE REVIEW: Haydn's 'L'isola disabitata' Staged by American Classical Orchestra

At a time in which pirates had just graduated from "hotbed issue of the century" to a subject of droll comic relief, librettist Pietro Metastasio had seized upon the convenient device to launch his witty commentary on the subjectivity of innocence and disenchantment: the lighthearted opera (famously set by Haydn), L'isola disabitata or "The Desert Island". In the opera's Tuesday performance at Alice Tully Hall --- staged by period-instrument favorites, the American Classical Orchestra, led by Thomas Crawford on harpsichord --- one hopes that the opera's delightful social commentary, together with its slapstick gags, had fully reached the New York audience.
  • 'Judith Shatin Brings Xbox Kinect to coLABoratory Workshop March 5

    After illustrating what the technology can do through her sketch, Red Moon, this March composer Judith Shatin will be bringing her experimental Xbox powered Black Moon project to American Composers Orchestra's (ACO) coLABoratory workshop -- the world's first and only Research and Development lab for experimental new music. In preparation for her world premiere of Black Moon by the ACO at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hal this fall, the workshop, open free to the public March 5, will show how Shatin developed the video-gaming system's motion-sensing input device, the Kinect, into a musical instrument capable of reacting in real-time.
  • 'ACO Presents 'Sins & Songs' at Carnegie Hall, My Brightest Diamond Headlining

    American Composers Orchestra's 38th season will continue with “Orchestra Underground: Sins & Songs” at Carnegie Hall. Shara Worden and her pop “alter-ego,” My Brightest Diamond, will headline the show.
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