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American Composers Orchestra’s Composer to Composer Talk: George Lewis with Courtney Bryan and Damon Holzborn

November 18, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm CST

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) presents its inaugural Composer to Composer Talk online on Thursday, November 18 at 2pm CT / 3pm ET, with composers George Lewis, Courtney Bryan, and Damon Holzborn. The talk will be live-streamed and available for on-demand viewing for seven days. Tickets are free; registration is highly encouraged. Registrants will receive links to recordings of featured works in advance of the event.

On November 18, Courtney Bryan and Damon Holzborn will talk with George Lewis about his Virtual Concerto from 2004, a piece for improvising computer piano soloist and orchestra, written for ACO.

Volume One of ACO’s Composer to Composer Talks runs through January 27, 2021. Future talks include Chen Yi (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) Zhou Long, and Kerwin Young (December 2); William Bolcom and Gabriela Lena Frank (January 13); and John Corigliano and Mason Bates (January 27).

Volume Two, to be announced in January 2021, will include composers Missy Mazzoli and Meredith Monk, among others.

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