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American Composers Orchestra
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The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is an American orchestra based in New York City. It is the only orchestra in the world dedicated solely to the creation, performance, preservation, and promulgation of music by American composers. Through its concerts at Carnegie Hall and other venues, recordings, radio broadcasts, educational programs, New Music Readings and commissions, ACO identifies today's brightest emerging composers, champions prominent established composers as well as those lesser-known, and increases regional, national and international awareness of the infinite variety of American orchestral music, reflecting geographic, stylistic, and temporal diversity. ACO also serves as an incubator of ideas, research and talent, as a catalyst for growth and change among orchestras, and
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Symphonies 6, 7 & 9 | Roger Sessions - American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies | 1995 | Album |
| Tabuh-Tabuhan / Inner Voices / Suite For Symphonic Strings | Colin McPhee / Chinary Ung / Lou Harrison - American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies | 1995 | Album |
| The Seven Deadly Sins ● Chorale Variations ● Piano Concerto | Robert Beaser, Jan Opalach, Pamela Mia Paul, American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies | 1994 | Album |
| Violin Concerto / Fantasia Concertante / Fifth Symphony | William Bolcom - Sergiu Luca, American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies | 1992 | Album |
| Mysterious Mountain • Lousadzak • Elegiac Symphony | Alan Hovhaness ; Lou Harrison – American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies - Keith Jarrett | 1989 | Album |
| Four Symphonic Works By Duke Ellington | Duke Ellington, American Composers Orchestra, Maurice Peress | 1989 | Album |
| Concerto For Piano And Orchestra · The Head Of The Bed | Milton Babbitt - American Composers Orchestra, Charles Wuorinen, Alan Feinberg · Parnassus, Anthony Korf, Judith Bettina | 1987 | Album |
| Violin Concerto / At The Still Point | American Composers Orchestra, Paul Dunkel - Tobias Picker / Chester Biscardi | 1982 | Album |
| The Early Music | Elliott Carter – American Composers Orchestra, Paul Dunkel | 1982 | Album |
| Piano Concerto / Inner Space | American Composers Orchestra, Gunther Schuller, Robert Miller - John Harbison / David Stock | 1980 | Album |
| The Seasons / 2-Part Symphony | American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies - John Cage / Charles Wuorinen | 1979 | Album |
| Gossamer Noons / Odefonia | American Composers Orchestra, Gunther Schuller With Bethany Beardslee - Robert Helps / Marc-Antonio Consoli | 1978 | Album |
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